2001
DOI: 10.1080/13892240108438816
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Two decades of World Bank assisted extension services in Nigeria: Lessons and challenges for the future

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“…Issues relating to agricultural extension policy are likely to have a significant impact on the achievement of adequate agricultural productivity and food and nutrition security in Nigeria. A review of recent studies (Omotayo, Chikwendu, and Adebayo 2001;Koyenikan 2008;Iwuchukwu and Igbokwe 2012;Akinbamowo 2013;Obiora and Emodi 2013;Hamisu et al 2017) and a report by FMARD (2012) suggests that several factors are responsible for the ineffectiveness and limited impact of agricultural extension policy in Nigeria. These factors include, for instance, absence of a legislated extension policy and policy inconsistency (Koyenikan 2008;FMARD 2012;Akinbamowo 2013;Obiora and Emodi 2013), funding complications and weak diversification (Iwuchukwu and Igbokwe 2012;Hamisu et al 2017), a low level of participation by the private sector in the delivery of extension services (Omotayo, Chikwendu, and Adebayo 2001;Iwuchukwu and Igbokwe 2012), weak synergy across government levels (FMARD 2012;Inegbedion et al 2019), weak capacity and technical know-how of extension personnel (Issa 2013;Suvedi, Ghimire, and Kaplowitz 2017) and inadequate manpower for the effective delivery of services (FMARD 2012; Obiora and Emodi 2013).…”
Section: Key Challenges Impeding Effective Implementation Of Agricultmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Issues relating to agricultural extension policy are likely to have a significant impact on the achievement of adequate agricultural productivity and food and nutrition security in Nigeria. A review of recent studies (Omotayo, Chikwendu, and Adebayo 2001;Koyenikan 2008;Iwuchukwu and Igbokwe 2012;Akinbamowo 2013;Obiora and Emodi 2013;Hamisu et al 2017) and a report by FMARD (2012) suggests that several factors are responsible for the ineffectiveness and limited impact of agricultural extension policy in Nigeria. These factors include, for instance, absence of a legislated extension policy and policy inconsistency (Koyenikan 2008;FMARD 2012;Akinbamowo 2013;Obiora and Emodi 2013), funding complications and weak diversification (Iwuchukwu and Igbokwe 2012;Hamisu et al 2017), a low level of participation by the private sector in the delivery of extension services (Omotayo, Chikwendu, and Adebayo 2001;Iwuchukwu and Igbokwe 2012), weak synergy across government levels (FMARD 2012;Inegbedion et al 2019), weak capacity and technical know-how of extension personnel (Issa 2013;Suvedi, Ghimire, and Kaplowitz 2017) and inadequate manpower for the effective delivery of services (FMARD 2012; Obiora and Emodi 2013).…”
Section: Key Challenges Impeding Effective Implementation Of Agricultmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is the need to provide adequate information on the role responsibilities and performance expectation for extension staff. In addition, extension organizations need adequate financing to guarantee effective service delivery (Daku et al, 2005;Leeuwis and van den Ban, 2004;Omotayo et al, 2001).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sometimes the salaries of workers and allowances are either delayed or not paid for several months, there is an embargo on the recruitment of new staff, and it is difficult to service broken equipment or acquire new ones. Further, personnel have less clearly defined information on role responsibilities and performance expectations (Apantaku et al, 2000; Omotayo, Chikwendu, & Adebayo, 2001). The problem of financial sustainability of the training and visit program is not a peculiarity of Nigeria alone but also occurs in other countries that have adopted this extension practice (Arokoyo, 1998; Davidson, Ahmad, & Ali, 2001).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…ADPs, being work organisations, may not be immune from political activity by their personnel due to diminished levels of funding. Past studies have shown that irregular and insufficient government subventions to the extension agencies have resulted in diminished morale of the extension workforce, inefficiency, and reduced performance (Omotayo et al, 2001). It is in this regard that this study examined the extent to which there is a perception of organisational politics among extension personnel in selected ADPs based on the premise that the key actors would likely engage in political activity to obtain scarce resources for themselves and their units.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%