During the period 2013-2019, the Agricultural Extension in South Asia (AESA) Network has served as a platform for collating the voices, insights, concerns, and experiences of people in the extension sphere of South Asia. Diverse professionals shared their concerns on the present and future of Extension and Advisory Services (EAS) in the form of blog conversations for AESA. Together, all of these individuals who are involved, interested and passionate about EAS, discussed ways to move beyond some of the seemingly intransigent problems that are hindering the professionalization of EAS.
The frequency of natural disasters, especially storms and floods, has been increasing globally over the last several decades. Developing countries are especially vulnerable to such disasters but are often the least capable of coping with the associated impacts because of their limited adaptive capacity. Despite the increased interest in strengthening institutional capacity, it remains a challenge for many developing countries. Institutional capacity for disaster management and risk reduction can be built through various mechanisms.
During the last six years (2013-2019), the Agricultural Extension in South Asia (AESA) Network has served as a platform for collating the voices, insights, concerns, and experiences of people in the extension sphere of South Asia. Diverse professionals shared their concerns on the present and future of Extension and Advisory Services (EAS) in the form of blog conversations for AESA.
This report deals with innovation opportunities in the Rice Value Chain.
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This report deals with selected innovations in Nigeria.
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This report deals with the adoption of technological innovations in the case of rice farming in Togo.
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Des organisations efficaces sont indispensables pour assurer un développement durable et, en particulier, dans le domaine de la sécurité alimentaire et de l’agriculture. Ce cours explique comment effectuer une analyse et un développement efficaces des organisations étatiques et non étatiques dans les États Membres, à travers des exemples de changement organisationnel, y compris dans les ministères, les organisations de producteurs et les instituts de recherche.
Durée: 2 heures
Unas organizaciones efectivas son fundamentales para conseguir un desarrollo sostenible y en particular, en el ámbito de la seguridad alimentaria y la agricultura. Este curso explica cómo llevar a cabo un análisis y desarrollo efectivos de las organizaciones estatales y no estatales en los países miembros, y proporciona ejemplos de cambios organizacionales, incluidos en ministerios, organizaciones de productores e institutos de investigación.
Duración del curso: 2 horas
The Policy Compendium for Rural Advisory Services (RAS) is a tool that contributes to filling the gap between the rural advisory services (RAS) policy environment and RAS efforts in the field. It helps direct decisions and facilitate successful policy processes and outcomes in extension and advisory services by making knowledge accessible, fostering synergies and promoting policy processes to improve RAS and rural development. It has two purposes.
This report provides an overview of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) since its inception in 2012, when it was officially launched by FAO at the first G20 Meeting of Agriculture Chief Scientists (MACS) in September 2012 in Mexico, until December 2017. The G20 Agriculture Deputies agreed on this stock taking exercise that started under the 2018 Argentinian G20 Presidency.
Purposes of the exercise are the following: