extension and rural advisory services

EXTENSION AND RURAL ADVISORY SERVICES

Events
Series of webinars (Aug-Sept 2020) featuring cases from different countries in Africa.
Events
What will agricultural extension look like in 10-20 years? Join the event on March 4-5 at IFPRI to explore and share your ideas!
Blog
Takeaways from the recent knowledge event on the future of extension and rural advisory services convened by PIM and Feed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC) project.
Blog
What do youth have to do with agriculture or agricultural extension? Aren’t most young people trying to get out of rural areas and are not interested in agriculture?
Webinar
This webinar by the Feed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC) Project will summarize recent experience and give recommendations for expanding private sector agricultural extension and advisory services.
Events
The Nov 7-8 meeting will showcase new research on the impact of extension and advisory services and identify future needs for extension system programming and evaluation.
Blog
Researchers and development practitioners don’t often team up to co-lead large global projects. There are reasons this type of partnership isn’t very common, yet we each need the other to be able to solve seemingly intractable global problems like hunger and poverty.
Blog
In Nepal, bureaucrats’ local knowledge and motivation make a difference in serving rural farmers. Danielle Resnick and Jordan Kyle share recent research findings on agricultural extension service provision from Nepal.
Blog
The new paper examines how subnational variation in capacity affects access to agricultural extension in rural Nepal, finding that even when resources are scarce, knowledgeable and motivated bureaucrats can deliver surprisingly high levels of services.