Innovations in Rural Extension: Case Studies from Bangladesh
During the past five years, the PETRRA (Poverty Elimination Through Rice Research Assistance) project has explored the development of innovative extension mechanisms through a learning-by-doing process with multiple service providers. Partnerships linked government, non-government and private sectors as appropriate. Topics addressed by the project include seed production and distribution systems, crop and soil fertility management, postharvest technologies, mobile pumps, aromatic rice and integrated rice-duck farming. The methods used include women-led group extension, whole family approach, participatory video, Going Public and picture songs. This book examines these approaches to extension and assesses their potential for replicability and scaling-up. It includes four thematic sections with people-centred case studies and a conclusion with practical applications of the transaction cost theory.
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Innovations in Rural Extension: Case Studies from Bangladesh
During the past five years, the PETRRA (Poverty Elimination Through Rice Research Assistance) project has explored the development of innovative extension mechanisms through a learning-by-doing process with multiple service providers. Partnerships linked government, non-government and private sectors as appropriate. Topics addressed by the project include seed production and distribution systems, crop and soil fertility management, postharvest technologies, mobile pumps, aromatic rice and integrated rice-duck farming. The methods used include women-led group extension, whole family approach, participatory video, Going Public and picture songs. This book examines these approaches to extension and assesses their potential for replicability and scaling-up. It includes four thematic sections with people-centred case studies and a conclusion with practical applications of the transaction cost theory.
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Innovations in Rural Extension: Case Studies from Bangladesh

Innovations in Rural Extension: Case Studies from Bangladesh

Innovations in Rural Extension: Case Studies from Bangladesh

Innovations in Rural Extension: Case Studies from Bangladesh

Overview

During the past five years, the PETRRA (Poverty Elimination Through Rice Research Assistance) project has explored the development of innovative extension mechanisms through a learning-by-doing process with multiple service providers. Partnerships linked government, non-government and private sectors as appropriate. Topics addressed by the project include seed production and distribution systems, crop and soil fertility management, postharvest technologies, mobile pumps, aromatic rice and integrated rice-duck farming. The methods used include women-led group extension, whole family approach, participatory video, Going Public and picture songs. This book examines these approaches to extension and assesses their potential for replicability and scaling-up. It includes four thematic sections with people-centred case studies and a conclusion with practical applications of the transaction cost theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780851990286
Publisher: CABI
Publication date: 04/01/2005
Series: Cabi Series
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 8.33(w) x 9.75(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Paul Van Mele (PhD, Wageningen University) is an agricultural scientist who has managed agricultural R&D projects dealing with sustainable agriculture across the global South for over three decades. Since 2002, Paul has spearheaded farmer-to-farmer training video, coordinated research on video-mediated learning and taken it to scale. He runs his own company, Agro-Insight, and co-founded the non-profit organisation Access Agriculture to support South-South learning on agroecological transformation.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
* New road map, P Van Mele

Part II: Gender
* The right to learn: women want more agricultural advice
* Breaking down barriers: village women spread the word
* Bringing science to life: video development for women-to-women extension

Part III: Learning with rural communities
* Creative learning methods
* Watch and learn: video education for appropriate technologyey
* Village soil fertility maps
* Going public: a quick way to interact with communities
* Picture songs

Part IV: Enterprise webs
* The enterprise web
* Integrated rice-duck: a new farming system for Bangladesh
* Pump it up: developing a pro-poor mobile pump market
* Adding flavour: a value chain approach for aromatic rice
* Innovations in seed systems
* More is more: validating rice varieties with NGOs and poor farmers * Building a rice seed network
* Farmseed: putting farmers at the heart of the seed system
* Grameen seed: Grameen experiments with a pro-poor seed business
* Innovating with federations: community institutions take the lead in seed marketing

Part VI: Synthesis
* People and pro-poor innovation systems
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