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Innovations in Rural Extension
Case Studies from Bangladesh
Paperback
April 2005
9780851990286
More details
- Publisher
CABI - Published
1st April 2005 - ISBN 9780851990286
- Language English
- Pages 320 pp.
- Size 8.33" x 9.75"
$98.95
During the past five years, the PETRRA (Poverty Elimination Through Rice Research Assistance) project has explored the development of innovative extension mechanisms through a learning-by-doing process with multiple service providers. Partnerships linked government, non-government and private sectors as appropriate. Topics addressed by the project include seed production and distribution systems, crop and soil fertility management, postharvest technologies, mobile pumps, aromatic rice and integrated rice-duck farming. The methods used include women-led group extension, whole family approach, participatory video, Going Public and picture songs. This book examines these approaches to extension and assesses their potential for replicability and scaling-up. It includes four thematic sections with people-centred case studies and a conclusion with practical applications of the transaction cost theory.
Part I: Introduction
* New road map, P Van Mele
Part II: Gender
* The right to learn: women want more agricultural advice
* Breaking down barriers: village women spread the word
* Bringing science to life: video development for women-to-women extension
Part III: Learning with rural communities
* Creative learning methods
* Watch and learn: video education for appropriate technologyey
* Village soil fertility maps
* Going public: a quick way to interact with communities
* Picture songs
Part IV: Enterprise webs
* The enterprise web
* Integrated rice-duck: a new farming system for Bangladesh
* Pump it up: developing a pro-poor mobile pump market
* Adding flavour: a value chain approach for aromatic rice
* Innovations in seed systems
* More is more: validating rice varieties with NGOs and poor farmers * Building a rice seed network
* Farmseed: putting farmers at the heart of the seed system
* Grameen seed: Grameen experiments with a pro-poor seed business
* Innovating with federations: community institutions take the lead in seed marketing
Part VI: Synthesis
* People and pro-poor innovation systems