Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension
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...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2010
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| author | Feder, Gershon Anderson, Jock R. Birner, Regina Deininger, Klaus |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1548132025-11-06T07:23:35Z Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension Feder, Gershon Anderson, Jock R. Birner, Regina Deininger, Klaus agricultural extension agricultural technology empowerment gender women 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. 2010 2024-10-01T14:04:03Z 2024-10-01T14:04:03Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154813 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Feder, Gershon; Anderson, Jock R.; Birner, Regina; Deininger, Klaus. 2010. Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension. IFPRI Discussion Paper 959. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154813 |
| spellingShingle | agricultural extension agricultural technology empowerment gender women Feder, Gershon Anderson, Jock R. Birner, Regina Deininger, Klaus Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension |
| title | Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension |
| title_full | Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension |
| title_fullStr | Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension |
| title_full_unstemmed | Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension |
| title_short | Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension |
| title_sort | promises and realities of community based agricultural extension |
| topic | agricultural extension agricultural technology empowerment gender women |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154813 |
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