Challenges And Opportunities In Implementing Video Based Extension Approaches Targeting Women Farmers An Implementer S Perspective

Author : Rwamigisa, Patience B.,Namyenya, Angella,Butele, Cosmas Alfred,Shah, Mansi,Githuku, Fridah,Njung’e, Dennis
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 5 pages
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Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Political Science
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Challenges and opportunities in implementing video-based extension approaches targeting women farmers: An implementer’s perspective by Rwamigisa, Patience B.,Namyenya, Angella,Butele, Cosmas Alfred,Shah, Mansi,Githuku, Fridah,Njung’e, Dennis Pdf

Agricultural extension services play an important role in agricultural development. Timely and reliable information services are key to improving farmers’ knowledge of strategies to increase agricultural productivity, assisting them in accessing inputs and credit, providing early warning against pests and other shocks, and offering them critical advice on climate action. However, equitable access to knowledge, information, and technology remains challeng ing in most countries. This inequity is even more pronounced among farmers from marginalized groups, including women farmers, resulting in their limited access to climate resilience-enhancing technologies and practices. This note summarizes findings from implementers of participatory video-based extension interventions in India, Kenya, and Uganda. The findings suggest that videos targeting women farmers can reach them effectively. Still, participa tory video-based extension should be accompanied by group discussions, providing complementary inputs, and dismantling other barriers that impede women’s agency and achievements in agriculture.

Author : Swelam, A., Abdallah, E., Salem, S.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 148 pages
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Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251362006

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Comprehensive assessment of national agricultural research and extension systems with a special focus on agricultural research for development in Egypt by Swelam, A., Abdallah, E., Salem, S. Pdf

This case study was conducted to provide a good understanding of the challenges and opportunities related to Egypt’s agricultural research and organizational development to draw lessons and develop supporting guidelines. This study aimed to enhance efforts exerted by Egypt’s NARS in the field of developmental research by formulating an integrated and coherent approach for research and dissemination of proven technologies and practices. Such approaches are expected to address key bottlenecks and provide the needed direction and means for sustainable improved implementation of AR4D. This can ultimately lead to enhancing and empowering the capacity of Egypt’s NARS to better inform and influence policies and facilitate institutional changes required in the agricultural sector. As part of the efforts of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to support and strengthen NARS’ research impact and their links to extension service systems, the present assessment was carried out to establish a deeper insight into challenges and opportunities that are facing NARS in Egypt.

Author : Babita Bhatt,Israr Qureshi,Dhirendra Mani Shukla,Vinay Pillai
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 385 pages
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Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789819940080

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Social Entrepreneurship and Gandhian Thoughts in the Post-COVID World by Babita Bhatt,Israr Qureshi,Dhirendra Mani Shukla,Vinay Pillai Pdf

In this edited book, we provide foundational tenets of Gandhian perspective, and present examples of social organizations that are aiming to insulate themselves by adopting community and village-centered approaches to restructuring socially-embedded economic activities that align with Gandhian principles. These cases highlight the relevance of Gandhi's thoughts in the field of social entrepreneurship. We examine key principles such as Sarvodaya (the welfare of all), Antodaya (the upliftment of the weakest), self-sufficiency, self-reliance, Nai Talim (holistic education), and Trusteeship. We explore how social organizations implement these principles to promote resilience and well-being at the community level. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed unsustainable practices in the world, including disrupted supply chains, contagious effects of integrated global economy that ignore the local self-reliance, and unsustainable internal displacement that make cities dependent on rural labor and rural population dependent on urban areas for jobs. These issues show that there are systemic problems with how our society and market are structured. The traditional way of development that focuses on profit maximization and unlimited wants has caused problems like inequality, resource depletion, and disproportionate wealth accumulation. Unlimited growth in a limited world has led us to social, economic, and ecological crises. However, degrowth, as an approach has been criticized for wanting to go back to pre-industrial times. In this context, Gandhi's ideas offer alternatives. Gandhi promotes moderation in how market activities are structured and how individual consumption practices are followed. This can help reduce the negative impact of economic activities on people and the planet, and move towards a more structured and inclusive economy.

Author : Abate, Gashaw T.,Bernard, Tanguy,Makhija, Simrin,Spielman, David J.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Political Science
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Accelerating technical change through video-mediated agricultural extension: Evidence from Ethiopia by Abate, Gashaw T.,Bernard, Tanguy,Makhija, Simrin,Spielman, David J. Pdf

Despite a rapidly growing enthusiasm around applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to smallholder agriculture in developing countries, there are still many questions on the effectiveness of ICT-based approaches. This study assesses the effects of videomediated agricultural extension service provision on farmers’ knowledge and adoption of improved agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia. The study focuses on a program piloted by the Government of Ethiopia and Digital Green and poses three questions. First, to what extent does video-mediated extension lead to increased uptake of improved agricultural technologies and practices by smallholder farmers? Second, is video-mediated extension targeted at both spouses of the household more effective than when only targeted at the (typically male) household head? Third, how cost-effective is a video-mediated approach to extension provision? The study explores these questions with a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the video-mediated approach as applied to three priority crops (teff, wheat, maize) and three technologies (row planting, precise seeding rates, and urea dressing). The trial was implemented in 347 kebeles (village clusters) during the 2017 meher (rainy) season in Ethiopia’s four most agriculturally important regional states. Analysis of data from our surveys of 2,422 households and 896 extension agents indicates that the video-mediated approach is more effective than the conventional approach in achieving several key outcomes. Specifically, we find that videomediated extension reaches a wider audience than the conventional approach and leads to higher levels of agricultural knowledge and uptake of technologies in those kebeles randomly assigned to the program. While our results do point to greater participation and greater knowledge of female spouses in kebeles where both male and female spouses were targeted by the program, we do not find clear evidence that the more inclusive approach translated into higher uptake of the subject technologies and practices. Finally, we find that the video-mediated approach becomes less costly as the scale of operation increases.

Author : Lecoutere, Els,Spielman, David J.,Van Campenhout, Bjorn
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role model effects in rural Uganda by Lecoutere, Els,Spielman, David J.,Van Campenhout, Bjorn Pdf

In many developing countries, agricultural extension services are generally biased towards men, with information targeted mainly to male members of a farming household and in formats that are rarely tailored to female members. Nevertheless, female farmers may also benefit from such services as this may affect their ability to make informed decisions, resulting in increased farm productivity, household income, and welfare. We conduct a gendered field experiment among maize-farming households in eastern Uganda to test whether video-enabled extension messaging affects outcomes related to maize cultivation. In this experiment, men, women, and couples are shown randomly assigned videos about improved maize management practices in which male, female, or both male and female actors are featured. We first vary exposure to the videos by gender to test the effects of changes in intra-household information asymmetries, investigating whether involving women as recipients of information increases their ability to participate in household decision-making, and thus their involvement in household production choices. We then vary exposure to the gender of the actors in the videos to test for role-model effects, exploring whether involving women as information messengers challenges the idea that decision-making is a predominantly male domain, in turn affecting women’s outcomes. Results show that targeting women with information increases their knowledge about improved maize management practices, their role in agricultural decision-making, the adoption of recommended practices and inputs, production-related outcomes, and the quantity of maize women sell to the market. Results for the role-model effects are mixed, and are evident more in joint household outcomes than individual women’s outcomes. Overall, our findings suggest that in the context of our study, extension efforts aimed at directly addressing intra-household information asymmetries may be a first-best means of empowering women in agriculture. Other, more subtle means that seek to influence perceptions and norms about gendered roles in the household may not generate expected effects or work via expected impact pathways, though they remain worth further exploration.

Author : Mbo’o-Tchouawou, M., Colverson, K.E.
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789291463497

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Increasing access to agricultural extension and advisory services: How effective are new approaches in reaching women farmers in rural areas? by Mbo’o-Tchouawou, M., Colverson, K.E. Pdf

Author : Gashaw Tadesse Abate,Tanguy Bernard,Simrin Makhija,David J. Spielman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1351936354

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Accelerating Technical Change Through Video-mediated Agricultural Extension by Gashaw Tadesse Abate,Tanguy Bernard,Simrin Makhija,David J. Spielman Pdf

Author : Aladesuru, Damilola,Kasule, James Billy,Joshi, Garima
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Political Science
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Insights from farmers and extension agents: Perceptions of a participatory video intervention in India, Kenya, and Uganda by Aladesuru, Damilola,Kasule, James Billy,Joshi, Garima Pdf

Aladesuru, Damilola; Kasule, James Billy; and Joshi, Garima. 2023. Insights from farmers and extension agents: Perceptions of a participatory video intervention in India, Kenya, and Uganda. Reaching Women Farmers With CSA Policy Note 11. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

Author : Bernard, Tanguy,Makhija, Simrin,Orkin, Kate,Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum,Spielman, David J.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-28
Category : Political Science
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Video-based agricultural extension by Bernard, Tanguy,Makhija, Simrin,Orkin, Kate,Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum,Spielman, David J. Pdf

Since 2014, Digital Green and the Government of Ethiopia have been piloting a project to introduce a community-centric video approach to agricultural extension provision.1 Digital Green’s approach has the potential to transform extension in Ethiopia via a fairly simple impact pathway. By providing a cost-effective ap-proach to information dissemination, video-based extension can in-crease the adoption rate of productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies and practices by smallholder farmers, including in-creased adoption by women. The Digital Green approach could also improve data collection and analysis. This note, based on a more detailed project report,2 summarizes findings and recom-mendations that point the way to expanded use of video-based ag-ricultural extension.

Author : Ndegwa, Michael K.,Ringler, Claudia,Muteti, Francisca N.,Kato, Edward,Bryan, Elizabeth
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Political Science
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Can participatory video-based extension increase awareness and knowledge of climate adaptation practices? Insights from rural Kenya by Ndegwa, Michael K.,Ringler, Claudia,Muteti, Francisca N.,Kato, Edward,Bryan, Elizabeth Pdf

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has been promoted as a framework to identify a set of solutions that simultaneously sustain agricultural productivity and incomes, increase the resilience of agriculture, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, it has proven to be challenging to reach women farmers with information on CSA practices. This note summarizes results from a study that assessed whether participatory video-based extension approaches tailored to women’s preferred CSA approaches could reduce the gender gap in awareness and adoption of CSA practices in Kenya. The findings suggest that watching the videos increased awareness of the CSA practices promoted in the videos as well as other practices. However, watching the videos did not increase the adoption of the CSA practices. We propose strategies to strengthen the uptake of CSA practices alongside participatory video-based extension.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCAL:B5104489

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Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1994: Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Department of Agriculture, Farm Credit Administration, Food and Drug Administration by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Ranajit Kumar Samanta
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8185880867

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Women in Agriculture by Ranajit Kumar Samanta Pdf

The volume consists of nine chapters covering relevant issues on women in farming and its allied disciplines projecting multifaceted experiences, authored by several experts, academics and practitioners on the field from the countries like, Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands and India.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000091037642

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Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1994 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Ragasa, Catherine
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Modeling the effectiveness of the lead farmer approach in agricultural extension service provision: Nationally representative panel data analysis in Malawi by Ragasa, Catherine Pdf

The lead farmer (LF) approach has been implemented and heavily promoted nationwide in Malawi since 2009 to support government extension workers and accelerate technology dissemination. Earlier reports have shown that donor-funded projects in Malawi widely adopted the LF approach, indicating positive roles and contributions of LFs. However, national data show persistently low rates of adoption of management practices being promoted by the LFs, prompting this study to look closely at the nationwide implementation and effectiveness of the LF approach. Specifically, we model the effects of farmers’ interaction with and exposure to LFs and farmers’ access to LFs’ advice on farmers’ awareness of and adoption of several promoted technologies and management practices. We use data from 531 randomly selected LFs linked to panel data from 2,800 farming households and, using correlated random effects, model the effectiveness of the LF approach on technology awareness and adoption. This is complemented by 55 focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with agricultural extension development officers (AEDOs) and service providers. Our results point to two major conclusions. First, LFs support and assist AEDOs in their work, especially in organizing community meetings and farm demonstrations, and are also an important bridge between farmers and AEDOs. But LFs complement AEDOs’ work rather than substitute for it. In communities without strong AEDOs and community leaders to work with and monitor them, LFs were not active or performed at a substandard level. Second, results show limited coverage and weak implementation and effectiveness of the LF approach at the national level. Only 13 percent of farmers reported receiving agricultural advice from an LF in the last two years, and only 20 percent reported having interacted with an LF. Our econometric models also consistently show neither the farmers’ exposure or interaction with LFs nor farmers’ access to LFs’ advice had an effect on awareness of and adoption of the major agricultural management practices being promoted. When heterogeneity and types of LFs are unpacked, results show that quality of LFs, adoption behavior of LFs, and regular training of LFs have strong and consistent effect on the awareness and adoption of most agricultural practices promoted.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ,World Food Programme ,International Found for Agricultural Development
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251333976

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Gender transformative approaches for food security, improved nutrition and sustainable agriculture – A compendium of fifteen good practices by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ,World Food Programme ,International Found for Agricultural Development Pdf

The Compendium is a product of the Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition implemented by FAO, IFAD and WFP and funded by the European Union. The compendium of 15 good practices of gender transformative approaches (GTAs) includes the individual templates of the 15 good practices, provides a synthesis of the main features of the 15 GTAs presenting the core characteristics of 15 GTAs and describing the implementation arrangements, implementation cycle, the potential results of GTAs and their key success factors and challenges. It also includes ideas as to how GTAs could be taken to scale. The purpose of the Compendium is fourfold: (i) to take stock and draw lessons from experiences from existing practices of GTAs; (ii) to be a resource for agencies already working with GTAs to identify opportunities for strengthening their GTA work or to link up with complementary interventions; (iii) to provide guidance on how to apply GTAs in any organization or institution working for enhanced food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture; and (iv) to raise awareness of and advocate for GTAs by showcasing examples of good practices or successful approaches that contribute to positive gender-related and non-gender-related changes towards food security, improved nutrition and sustainable agriculture and rural development.