Holder, Marla (author / Ministry of Agriculture, Belize)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
1990-11
Published:
Belize: Department of Agricultural Extension, The University of the West Indies
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: C20514
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pages 90-101 from "Farm-household analysis, planning and development : a systems approach" Proceedings of a Caribbean Regional Workshop
Stilwell, Ted (author), Van Rooyen, Johan (author), and Gouws, Leon (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1988-10
Published:
Nepal: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00345
Notes:
Kerry Byrnes Collection, Pages 173-183 in Proceedings of the Farming Systems Research/Extension Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas and Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 9-12, 1988. Farming Systems Research Paper Series. Paper No. 17. 395 pages.
Kesseba, Abbas M., ed. (author / Graduate, Cairo University) and Graduate, Cairo University
Format:
Conference proceedings
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 82 Document Number: C04976
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; Includes Table of Contents, Forward, and Introduction only; Proceedings of a seminar organized by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on the Generation and Transfer of Technology for Poor Small Farmers; 1988 June; Korea, Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 1989. 229 p.
17 pages, The creation of commercialization opportunities for smallholder farmers has taken primacy on the development agenda of many developing countries. Invariably, most of the smallholders are less productive than commercial farmers and continue to lag in commercialization. Apart from the various multifaceted challenges which smallholder farmers face, limited access to extension services stands as the underlying constraint to their sustainability. Across Africa and Asia, public extension is envisioned as a fundamental part of the process of transforming smallholder farmers because it is their major source of agricultural information. Extension continues to be deployed using different approaches which are evolving. For many decades, various authors have reported the importance of the approaches that effectively revitalize extension systems and have attempted to fit them into various typologies. However, there is a widespread concern over the inefficiency of these extension approaches in driving the sustainability of smallholder farming agenda. Further, most of the approaches that attempted to revolutionize extension have been developed and brought into the field in rapid succession, but with little or no impact at the farmer level. This paper explores the theory and application of agricultural extension approaches and argues the potential of transforming them using digital technologies. The adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones and the internet which are envisaged to revolutionize existing extension systems and contribute towards the sustainability of smallholder farming systems is recommended
