Knowledge driven development: private extension and global lessons

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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 ass…

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Full title :Knowledge driven development : private extension and global lessons / edited by Yuan Zhou, Suresh Chandra Babu.

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Publication Date:©2015

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Publisher(s):Academic Press
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

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Includes index.

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Description:1 online resource (xvi, 276 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780128023631, 0128023635, 0128022310, 9780128022313
oclc:ocn910662544
LC Classification:S544
Dewey Decimal:630.715

Front Cover -- Knowledge Driven Development -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Rationale and Aims of the Book -- Key Research Questions -- Research Methodology -- Overview of Content -- References -- 2 The Current Status and Role of Private Extension: A Literature Review and a Conceptual Framework -- Introduction -- Trends in the Development of Private Extension -- Pluralistic agricultural extension systems -- Privatization of public extension literature

Private extension literatureConceptual Framework for the Analysis of Private Extension -- The publicâ€?private extension continuumâ€?a framework -- What factors motivate entry, effectiveness, and sustainability of the private sector in extension provision? -- Operational framework for assessing, analyzing, and acting on extension reforms -- Assessment of the current state of extension -- Analysis -- Dialogue and consultations -- Action plan for reforms -- External factors -- Internal factors -- Assessing the need for private extension -- Concluding Remarks

Private extension to supplement and complement public extensionDecentralization of extension and privat…

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