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| Title | Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension |
| Author |
Feder, Gershon Anderson, Jock R. Birner, Regina Deininger, Klaus |
| ORCID | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9229-3530 Feder, Gershon |
| Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | In view of the market failures and the state failures inherent in providing agricultural extension, community-based approaches, which involve farmers' groups, have gained increasing importance in recent years as a third way to provide this service. The paper discusses the conceptual underpinnings of community-based extension approaches, highlights theoretical and practical challenges inherent in their design, and assesses the evidence available so far on their performance. The paper reviews both quantitative and qualitative studies, focusing on three examples that contain important elements of community-based extension: the National Agricultural Advisory Services program of Uganda, the agricultural technology management agency model of India, and the farmer field school approach. The review finds that in the rather few cases where performance has been relatively carefully studied, elite capture was identified as a major constraint. Other challenges that empirical studies found include a limited availability of competent service providers, deep-seated cultural attitudes that prevent an effective empowerment of farmers, and difficulties in implementing farmers' control of service providers' contracts. The paper concludes that, just as for the state and the market, communities can also fail in extension delivery. Hence, the challenge for innovative approaches in agricultural extension is to identify systems that use the potential of the state, the market, and communities to create checks and balances to overcome the failures inherent in all of them. |
| Series Name | IFPRI Discussion Paper |
| Series Number | 959 |
| Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
| Place of publication | Washington, D.C. |
| Language | English |
| Record Type | Discussion paper |
| Peer Reviewed - PR or Non-PR | Non-PR |
| Subject - keywords |
agricultural extension community-based development market failures National Agricultural Advisory Services program Agricultural technology empowerment of farmers innovative approaches gender women |
| IFPRI Descriptors |
IFPRI1 GRP37 |
| IFPRI Division | DSGD |
| Access Rights | Open Access |
| Display Notes | Effective January 2007, the Discussion Paper series within each division and the Director General's Office of IFPRI were merged into one IFPRI-wide Discussion Paper series. The new series begins with number 00689, reflecting the prior publication of 688 discussion papers within the dispersed series. The earlier series are available on IFPRI's website at http://www.ifpri.org/publications/results/taxonomy%3A468. IFPRI Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results. They have been peer reviewed, but have not been subject to a formal external review via IFPRI's Publications Review Committee. They are circulated in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment; any opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the policies or opinions of IFPRI. |
| LOC call number | IFPRIDP00959 |
| Physical description | 23 pages |
| IFPRI Web link | http://www.ifpri.org/publication/promises-and-realities-community-based-agricultural-extension |
| RePEc Downloads | https://ideas.repec.org/p/fpr/ifprid/959.html |
| Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
| CONTENTdm file name | 795.cpd |
| Date cataloged | 2017-10-07 |
| Date modified | 2017-10-07 |
| OCLC number | 778451972 |
| CONTENTdm number | 794 |
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| Title | ifpridp00959 21 |
| Access Rights | Open Access |
| CONTENTdm file name | 783.pdfpage |
| Date cataloged | 2017-08-03 |
| Date modified | 2017-08-03 |
| CONTENTdm number | 782 |
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