Whither Agricultural Extension Worldwide? Reforms and Prospects

Rivera, William M.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-1499-2_14

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“…The difficulties for advisers in making such a conceptual shift, however, and the impacts this has had for moving towards a participatory approach have arguably been underestimated. These difficulties are reflected at the institutional level in certain characteristics and practices that remain in place in the institutional framework of public extension services (Rivera 2001). Anderson and Feder (2004) refer to a range of dimensions that could be seen as instrumental to the way advisers evaluate their situation and adjust their operating strategies, and which ultimately impact negatively upon the performance of extension (Feder et al.…”

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Power, Positionality and the View from within: Agricultural Advisers' Role in Implementing Participatory Extension Programmes in the Republic of Ireland

Mahon¹,

Farrell²,

McDonagh³

2010

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article examines the experience of implementing a participatory model of public extension advisory programme in the Republic of Ireland. Focusing specifically on the role and experiences of extension advisers, it draws evidence from an evaluation of the 'Options for Farm Families Programme'. It is argued that, while participatory approaches are increasingly promoted from an institutional perspective, they also raise a number of dilemmas for extension advisory staff that are ultimately damaging to the operation of such extension programmes if they remain outside the discursive framework within which the programme is shaped. Drawing on aspects of Habermas's theory of communicative action and Foucault's perspectives on the nature of power and power relations, this article attempts to provide a framework for understanding the apparent difficulties experienced by advisers in embracing participatory approaches in the case of the Options Programme and their tacit adoption of what might be described as adaptive strategies that have effectively seen the participatory element of the programme circumvented. It is contended that, while participatory approaches open up important new dimensions in extension practices, they can only be successfully applied when cognisance is taken of the full context in which advisers currently operate and when the advisers' own conceptualisation of extension is clearly established.

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Power, Positionality and the View from within: Agricultural Advisers' Role in Implementing Participatory Extension Programmes in the Republic of Ireland

Mahon¹,

Farrell²,

McDonagh³

2010

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…This pattern is consonant with the so-called 'information commodi cation' trend of agricultural knowledge re ecting a change towards the value placed on technology transfer systems (Buttel, 1991). Unlike low-income countries suffering from under-investments in extension, low-middle and especially middle-income countries have begun to invest in extension services as one strategy to reduce poverty by generating incomes through training and information sharing (Rivera, 2001). This also supports the argument that the implementation of agricultural extension programs target on individual group of farmers in speci c spatial areas and thus introducing a selection bias.…”

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“…Associated with a strong social dimension, the workload of extension schemes has urged to become more diversi ed through the provision of socio-demographic guidance to maintain not only farmers income levels, but also to safeguard rural livelihoods (Swanson, 2006a). Agricultural extension operates within a broader knowledge system integrating research, agricultural training, and tailors down to harness agricultural-related technology, knowledge and information to improve farm productivity (Rivera, 2001).…”

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“…While the spending gap between rich and poor countries widened steadily from 1980 until 2011, low-income countries failed to align with growth of other parts in the globe, such that their share of global public expenses diminishes dramatically over the past half century in agricultural research and extension services (Pardey et al, 2018). The association of dysfunctional agricultural extension systems and low levels of technical e ciencies in low-income countries has been extensively reported by the developing and agricultural economics literature (Anderson and Feder, 2004, Birkhaeuser et al, 1991, Rivera, 2001, Rivera et al, 2002, Swanson, 2006b.…”

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The Role of Agricultural Extension Programs On Crop Farming Technical Efficiency

Lampach

Nguyen-Van

To‐The³

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Extension services have become the gold standard for agricultural development programs to spur farm productivity and enhance farmers’ livelihood. Scholars from distinct strands of research have contested the virtues of these programs as systematic reviews failed to disentangle the different causal paths. We aim to unpack the relationship between these two constructs, and more specifically explore the main determinants causing systematic variabilities of the technical efficiency estimates from well-known published crop-farming studies. A meta-regression analysis is implemented by collating 335 observations from 199 farm-level studies to review the direct impact of agricultural extension activities on farming performance. While the implementation of expansion programs tends to be non-randomly distributed in our sample, we employ the inverse probability of treatment weighting to correct for potential selection bias. The absence of a publication bias in found studies our meta-analysis is empirically identified. Our empirical findings are robust when multiple imputation method is employed to mitigate the missingness of observations. Consonant with the theory of agricultural extension, we find that extension significantly improves technical efficiency by 4.8% to 7.6%. Farm productivity significantly differs in country level characteristics, type of crops and model specification.JEL Classification: Q16, O18, C14, C29

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“…In 1962, following the "Rural Development Law" whose main goal was to let a single leading organization implement research and development of agricultural technology as well as Agriculture Extension System, Rural Development Administration, was established. This organization exists to date (Rivera 2001;Suh 2018). and dominating extension approaches in Republic of Uganda remained non-digital.…”

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Agricultural sustainability through smart farming systems: A comparative analysis between the Republic of Korea and Republic of Uganda

Happy,

Gang,

Ban

et al. 2024

J Plant Biotechnol

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Whither Agricultural Extension Worldwide? Reforms and Prospects

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Power, Positionality and the View from within: Agricultural Advisers' Role in Implementing Participatory Extension Programmes in the Republic of Ireland

Power, Positionality and the View from within: Agricultural Advisers' Role in Implementing Participatory Extension Programmes in the Republic of Ireland

The Role of Agricultural Extension Programs On Crop Farming Technical Efficiency

Agricultural sustainability through smart farming systems: A comparative analysis between the Republic of Korea and Republic of Uganda

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