Description
Book SynopsisDuring 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.
Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1: New road map, Part II: Gender 2: The right to learn: women want more agricultural advice, 3: Breaking down barriers: village women spread the word, 4: Family approach in extension, 5: Bringing science to life: video development for women-to-women extension, Part III: Learning with rural communities 6: Creative learning methods, 7: Watch and learn: video education for appropriate technology, 8: Village soil fertility maps, 9: Going public: a quick way to interact with communities, 10: Picture songs, Part IV: Enterprise webs 11: The enterprise web, 12: Integrated rice-duck: a new farming system for Bangladesh, 13: Pump it up: developing a pro-poor mobile pump market, 14: Adding flavour: a value chain approach for aromatic rice, Part V: Pro-poor seed systems 15: Innovations in seed systems, 16: More is more: validating rice varieties with NGOs and poor farmers, 17: Building a rice seed network, K Bashar, 18: Farmseed: putting farmers at the heart of the seed system, 19: Grameen seed: Grameen experiments with a pro-poor seed business, 20: Innovating with federations: community institutions take the lead in seed marketing, Part VI: Synthesis 21: People and pro-poor innovation systems,
