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Agricultural and rural extension worldwide: options for institutional reform in the developing countries (pdf 260kb)

This paper outlines three agricultural and rural extension market reforms and two non-marketing reforms, emphasizing stakeholder, and particularly end-user, participation in the approaches employed in these reforms.

It also recognizes the need for non-farm microenterprise development initiatives and advocates coordinating this effort with other international organizations.

The paper recommends that FAO should explore these and related institutional reform options with the developing countries, as an important means of assisting them to revitalize their agricultural and rural extension systems. In the present climate of change, poverty alleviation and food security are major concerns to FAO and its member states.

 

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