Farmer-led Extension

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
TABLES AND FIGURES
1. Introduction
The farmer-led extension workshop
What is farmer-led extension?
Actors in farmer-led extension
The remainder of the book
2. Challenges to agricultural extension in the twenty-first century
The changing global scene
The challenge to agriculture
Challenges for extension
3. Extension experiences in agriculture and natural resource
management in the 1980s and 1990s
Introduction
Changing concepts and practice
Disenchantment with the public sector
Natural resource management and 'sustainability'
Issues
Looking ahead
4. Origins and examples of farmer-to-farmer extension
Latin America
Indonesia
India
Philippines
Vietnam
5. Principles and methods in farmer-to-farmer extension
Latin America
Indonesia
Philippines
Viemam
Nepal
Summary
6. Roles and responsibilities in farmer-to-farmer extension
Farmer-extensionists
Extension workers and support agencies
7. Issues and problems in farmer-to-farmer extension
Selection of farmer-extensionists
Payment and time allocation
Work location
Specialization
Gender issues
8. Farmer field schools
Origins and principles
Methods and strategies
Role of professionals
Linking farmers
Links with research
Training of farmers and professionals
Selection of participants
Gender issues
9. Problem censuslproblem solving
Nepal
Bangladesh
10. NGO-government collaboration
Why are NGOs and government agencies willing to work together?
How do NGOs and government agencies work together?
Benefits fiom collaboration
Problems encountered in collaboration
Lessons learned fiom collaboration
11. Other approaches to farmer-led extension
Supporting farmers' research
Limiting inputs to facilitation only
Helping farmers to access information
Combining institution-based training and farmer-led extension
Provision of fee-based service paid by farmers
12. Impact assessment and evaluation
Individual or household-level assessment
Project-level assessment
Regional or national-level assessment
How to monitor, evaluate, and measure impact?
Indicators for assessing farmer-led extension
13. Reaching more farmers
Scaling up
Scaling out
Constraints and positive influences
Environmental factors
Factors internal to the extension system
Factors internal to the community
Factors common to the extension system and the community .
14. Lessons and conclusions
Categorizing the experiences
Prospects for expansion
Appendix 1: Workshop participants
Workshop organizers
Participants
Appendix 2: Papers cited and summarized
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