Latin American Network for Rural Extension Services (RELASER)
RELASER is the Latin American Network for Rural Extension Services (in Spanish: Red Latinoamericana de Servicios de Extensión Rural). It started in 2010 under the leadership of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) and a group of public and private institutions. RELASER's mission is to strengthen public and private extension systems in Latin America to promote sustainable development as part of innovation systems.
Areas of activity:
rural extension services
Focus of Capacity Development:
Individual
Organizational
Institutional
Resources from this Organisation
Rural extension as part of an innovation system
Rural extension plays a significant and irreplaceable role in an innovation system that creates, designs, validates, and promotes new ideas, solutions, technologies, and forms of management focused on the resolution of problems and satisfaction of the needs of farmers and rural inhabitants and...
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2012Author(s):
Romero, L.- Upload file
The institutional structure of rural extension and public-private relations in Latin America
This policy brief deals with the following points: (i) Given the importance of agriculture and the rural medium for countries’ growth and development, policy makers must strengthen the institutional structure of rural extension and increase public and private investment; (ii) Abundant natural...
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2012Author(s):
Alarcon, E.- Upload file
Agricultural Innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Institutional Scenarios and Mechanisms
Agriculture and food supply face a repositioning in the context of challenges associated with the Millennium Development Goals. From a development perspective it is of central importance to identify the role that the sector should perform in the fight against poverty and in a world that is...
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2013Author(s):
Trigo, E.Falconi, C.- Upload file