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2. Agricultural extension in South-Eastern Europe: Issues of transition and sustainability
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Daku, Lefter (author), Norton, George W. (author), Taylor, Daniel B. (author), Petrela, Eivis Qenani (author), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University California Polytechnic State University
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2007-07-30
- Published:
- United States: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10967
- Journal Title:
- The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- (11:1-4) : 49-61
- Notes:
- 12 pages, via online journal, Following the economic reforms in the early 90's, most of the south-eastern European countries (SEE) made efforts to establish agricultural extension services. However, a number of factors including tight governmental budgets, lack of experience, and the existence of vested interests have constrained the development of extension services. This paper examines the rationale for public funding of extension programs and evaluates the incentive structure for private and public provision of agricultural extension service in the SEE countries. It suggests a medium and long-term approach with a primary focus on institutional design. Two groups of factors that affect the private sector supply of extension are analyzed: (i) demand and supply-side factors that affect the profitability of the service and (ii) factors arising from the public-good nature of extension output, externalities, and moral hazards that affect the appropriation of returns of the service. The main conclusion is that the SEE countries should try to achieve a public-private extension balance by following a gradual approach toward privatization of the agricultural extension service. However, the paper advocates a continued important role for the public sector to correct for potential undesirable effects of private advisory services.
3. Does it matter who advises farmers? Pest management choices with public and private extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Wuepper, David (author), Roleff, Nikolaus (author), and Finger, Robert (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2020-01-01
- Published:
- Switzerland: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12514
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 99
- Notes:
- 8 pages, Does it matter whether farmers receive advice on pest management strategies from public or from private (pesticide company affiliated) extension services? We use survey data from 733 Swiss fruit growers who are currently contending with an infestation by an invasive pest, the fruit fly Drosophila Suzukii. We find that farmers who are advised by public extension services are more likely (+9–10%) to use preventive measures (e.g. nets) while farmers who are advised by private extension services are more likely (+8–9%) to use synthetic insecticides. These results are robust to the inclusion of various covariates, ways to cluster standard errors, and inverse probability weighting. We also show that our results are unlikely to be driven by omitted variable bias. Our findings have implications for the current debates on both the ongoing privatization of agricultural extension and concerns regarding negative environmental and health externalities of pesticide use.
4. Netherlands : a case study
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Schwartz, Lisa A. (author / Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 99 Document Number: C08347
- Journal Title:
- INTERPAKS Digest
- Journal Title Details:
- 2 (2/3) : 1-2
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS
5. Privatization of extension in the United Kingdom: implications for agriculture and the rural economy
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Bunney, Michael (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 1998
- Published:
- UK
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01230
- Notes:
- Pages 223-238 in Steven A. Wolf (ed.), Privatization of agricultural information and agricultural industrialization. CRC Press, Boca Raton, New York, New York. 299 pages.