Extension Services Within the Strategy of Agricultural Development in Nigeria in the 1990s
Author: S. K. Taiwo Williams
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Published: 1989
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Author: S. K. Taiwo Williams
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Published: 1989
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lawrence O. Obibuaku
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ogunniyi, Adebayo
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2020-07-15
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgricultural extension plays a number of important roles in the growth and transformation of the agricultural sector, including improving agricultural productivity and food security and reducing hunger and malnutrition. Extension programs and interventions that will achieve significant impacts in terms of behavior and practice changes, as well as agricultural productivity increase, will succeed as a result of suitable policy formulation and an effective implementation process. Ultimately, agricultural extension reform requires policy vision and determination and a state-level strategy that can be implemented. This paper documents issues, challenges, constraints, and potential solutions and opportunities in implementing the national extension policy (NEP) at the state level in Nigeria, using Cross River State as a case study. We use both quantitative and qualitative methods, in the form of descriptive statistical analysis and an inclusive consultative process with a focus on the multistakeholder participatory model, respectively. The descriptive results show that, generally, there is low access to agricultural extension service across commodities and their respective values chains in Cross River State. We also document interesting insights from the multistakeholder consultative process. We find that collaboration and partnership between private and public extension service providers is key to developing a sustainable extension, advisory, and support service in Cross River State. We also found that coordination and standardization of the activities of the extension service providers is a way to avoid pollution of the agricultural innovation system in the state. Funding of extension services is another important factor affecting the effective implementation of the NEP. We therefore suggest that agricultural extension services can be funded through decentralization, involvement of farmers’ associations and nongovernmental organizations, contracting out of extension services, public-private partnerships, privatization, and embedding advisory services in other types of contracts. The results of this study further validate our approach of using multistakeholder engagement at the state level as an effective and insightful method of implementing the NEP at the state level.
Author: S. K. Taiwo Williams
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9789782399571
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Publisher: National Agricultural Research Project
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 464
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria. Conference
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James M. Kincaid
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 258
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nafukho, Frederick Muyia
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2021-03-19
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 1799864723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA robust manufacturing sector is a necessity and a sufficient condition for any country’s human and economic development as it creates employment and alleviates poverty. During this Fourth Industrial Revolution era, there is an urgent need in Africa to optimally utilize the existing resources to support manufacturing or else risk allowing the continent to fall behind in the industrial economy. Innovative strategies are needed that can unlock Africa’s manufacturing potential by exploring key areas that may help Africa mature and launch modernized economies that will benefit the developed world’s industrial economy. The Handbook of Research on Nurturing Industrial Economy for Africa’s Development examines various innovations necessary for Africa’s economic development including drivers of the manufacturing economy such as education, agriculture, human capital, science and technological innovations, language, politics, and business environments. The book explores strategies to increase Africa’s economic diversity, complexity, productivity, and ultimately competitiveness, and for the continent to realize its manufacturing/industrial potential. Further, chapters focus on African countries’ industrial economies in the African context and facilitating the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the African Union’s Agenda 2063. This book is a valuable reference tool for government officials, economists, industrialists, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the industrial economic development of Africa.
Author: William Kenneth Jaeger
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 160
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