Saravanan, R., (2008), (Ed.) Agricultural Extension: Worldwide Innovations, New India Publishing Agency (NIPA), New Delhi.
About the Book: Agricultural extension is in a great transition worldwide. The demand for public extension reform is greater than ever before. The agriculture knowledge infrastructure is evolving in a big way with the emergence of pluralistic extension actors and innovations to cater for the needs of the farmers. This book is an attempt to document the past experiences and recent developments in the agriculture knowledge information systems. The compilation of 14 country chapters such as; Afghanistan, Benin, Cote d’Iviore, Ghana, India, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Mozambique, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Trinidad & Tobago and Zimbabwe is intended to document the experience of extension systems. The fourteen country-wise chapters highlight the worldwide agricultural extension reform measures (Decentralisation, Privatisation, Demand driven and Cost-recovery approaches), Institutional Pluralism (Public, Private and NGOs) and Innovations (Farmer to Farmer extension, Participatory and Self-Help Group (SHG) approaches and ICT initiatives).
Book Review Prof. Anne W. Van den Ban, Wageningen, the Netherlands, published in the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 2009.
“The book gives valuable food for thought for leaders of extension organizations in
developing countries and for donors working with these organizations. This book is
edited and written people form the South and one Japanese. One might expect that
Europeans and Americans play a major role in publishing a book likes this, but times
have changed”- Prof. Anne W. van den Ban (2009).
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