Knowledge Driven Development: Private Extension and Global Lessons

Knowledge Driven Development: Private Extension and Global Lessons uses actual cases written specifically to study the role and capacity of private companies in knowledge sharing and intensification through agricultural extension. Descriptions of specific models and approaches are teased out of complex situations exhibiting a range of agricultural, regulatory, socio-economic variables. Illustrative cases focus on a particular agricultural value chain and elaborate the special feature of the associated private extension system. Chapters presenting individual cases of private also highlight specific areas of variations and significant deviance. Each chapter begins with a section describing the background and agricultural context of the case, followed by a description of the specific crop value chain. Based on understanding of this context, extension models and methods by private companies received deeper analysis and definition in the next section. This leads to a discussion of the private extension with respect to its relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, equity, sustainability and impact. Comparison with public extension and the uniqueness of the knowledge intensification model, as well as lessons for its replication and scaling up are elaborated conclude each of those chapters. The final chapter summarizes the major results from the twelve cases presented, looking at the trends, commonalities and differences of various extension approaches and the general lessons for success or failure. It concludes with a set of recommendations, organized according to those for private companies, public sectors and policymakers. Provides understanding of different knowledge sharing and intensification models of extension delivery and financing by private companies across the agricultural value chainsAssesses the factors leading to successes or failures of various approachesDraws lessons and recommendations for future endeavors relating to private extension policies and programs INDICE: 1. Introduction Yuan Zhou and Suresh Chandra Babu 2. The Current Status and Role of Private Extension: A Literature Review and a Conceptual Framework Suresh Chandra Babu, Natarajan Ramesh, and Caitlin Shaw 3. Private Approaches to Extension and Advisory Services: A Historical Analysis R. Saravanan and Suresh Chandra Babu 4. Private Sector Extension with Input Supply and Output Aggregation: Case of Sugarcane Production System with EID-Parry in India Suresh Chandra Babu 5. Kenya Horticultural Exporters: Linking Smallholders to Market Yuan Zhou 6. Private Technical Assistance Approaches in Brazil: The Case of Food Processing Company Rio de Una Suresh Chandra Babu, Cristina Sette, and Kristin Davis 7. Syngenta Frijol Nica Program: Supporting Nicaraguan Bean Growers Yuan Zhou 8. Private Sector Participation in Agricultural Extension for Cocoa Farming in Nigeria: The Case of Multi-trex Integrated Foods Kolawole Adebayo, Suresh Chandra Babu, Rahman Sanusi and Motunrayo Sofola 9. Jain Irrigation Systems Limited: Creating Shared Value for Small Onion Growers Yuan Zhou 10. Private Sector Participation in Agricultural Extension for Safflower Farming in India: The Case of Marico Limited G.D.S Kumar, S.V. Ramana Rao and K.S. Varaprasad 11. Private Provision of Extension through the Contract Farming Approach in Bangladesh: the Case of PRAN in Bangladesh Fatema Wadud, Suresh Chandra Babu, and Md. Safiul Islam Afrad 12. Extension and Advisory Services for Organic Basmati Rice Production in Jammu and Kashmir, India: A Case Study of Sarveshwar Organic Foods Ltd. Rakesh Nanda, Rakesh Sharma, Vinod Gupta and Gaytri Tandon 13. Private Extension Provision in Vietnam: A Case Study of An Giang Plant Protection Joint Stock Company Pham Hoang Ngan, Tran Tri Dung, and Suresh Chandra Babu 14. Private Sector Extension - Synthesis of the Case Studies Suresh Chandra Babu and Yuan Zhou

• ISBN: 978-0-12-802231-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 294
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés