In 1994, federal and state governments in the United States spent approximately US$2 848 million on programmes designed to encourage businesses to discover, develop and adopt improved technologies and business practices, and this sum is growing. It is important to taxpayers and policy makers to see if these technology programmes have the desired impact and that this money is well spent. Unfortu...

Participation has been proposed to improve agricultural extension programmes in developing countries. This paper reports on experience with COCREATE, an approach that supports chain actors self-directed learning action research smallholder farmers and local traders Indonesia. resulted the changes relation task division between their production supply chains, improved market position new institu...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to investigate the benefits and limitations of using radio to communicate agricultural information to peasant farmers, and how radio can be successfully incorporated into agricultural extension service programmes. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative and qualitative research techniques were used and applied to gather, analyse and interpret data. Twen...

climate change represents the major challenge to sudan agricultural production, economics and food security. changes in temperature, rainfalls, water availability, increased outbreak of pest and diseases, land degradation, soil erosion, shrinking of grazing and cultivate areas, ongoing desertification and the other aspects of climate change have direct significant impact on agricultural product...

The challenges of extension education and training in Nigeria are inherent in the nature and characteristics of the extensionist himself, the trainers, training needs and the ability of the training institutions and agencies to develop and deliver appropriate training programmes relevant to the system. The demand for functional pre and post service extension education in Nigeria is deeply roote...