Farmer-To-Farmer Extension: A Low-Cost Approach for Promoting Climate-Smart Agriculture

Franzel, Steven; Kiptot, Evelyne; Degrande, Ann

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-92798-5_24

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“…To deal with changing climatic circumstances in the field or to assist farmers, different countries adopt different techniques, strategies, and methods. In Uganda, for example, National Advisory Agricultural Services aimed to improve climate change resilience through technological interventions, using an Information and Communications Technology-based (ICT-based) [40] knowledge platform in northern Uganda to improve knowledge processing, sharing, and use around climate change adaptation in agriculture, while NARO adopted the knowledge-informed, multidisciplinary, and participatory approach in western and central Uganda [41].…”

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confidence: 99%

Climate-Smart Agricultural Extension Service Innovation Approaches in Uganda: Review Paper

Turyasingura¹,

Chavula²

2022

IJFSA

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Agriculture is anticipated to remain the economy's backbone for the foreseeable future, with agricultural operations employing a large majority of Uganda's work force 72%. The aim of this review was to assess the agriculture extension and advisory services; brief description of agriculture extension and advisory service system in Uganda focusing on typology providers, dominant models used and target groups; providing examples of agriculture extension and advisory services related to climate smart agriculture with specific adaptation and mitigation and identifying and discussing the innovative approach and methods being used by different service providers in climate smart related extension. Farmers' groups, government organizations, non-governmental organizations, commercial organizations, and universities are among the typologies employed in Uganda's agriculture extension service. The agriculture extension and advisory services related to climate smart agriculture were integrated soil fertility management, crop rotation, cover crops and green manure, rotational grazing, seasonally adapted planting time and agroforestry systems. The innovative approach and methods being used by different service providers in climate smart related extension included extension methods for transfer of climate knowledge, training and visit extension and unified extension approaches, climate awareness mass media campaigns, ICT supported farmers in adaptation and mitigation, farmer field school and climate-smart villages. It was concluded that climate-smart extension approaches need to be considered as part of a broader set of adaptation measures and policies for agricultural systems at a range of scales through ICT integration. The study recommended for a strategic plan for women engagement in agriculture extension services by the Ugandan government.

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Section: Extension Methods For Transfer Of Climate Knowledgementioning

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Climate-Smart Agricultural Extension Service Innovation Approaches in Uganda: Review Paper

Turyasingura¹,

Chavula²

2022

IJFSA

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“…Professionals instructed and gave learning materials to lead-farmers, for training fellow farmers. Farmer-led methods are appropriate for low-cost agricultural extension and advisory services [36]. Learning was measured by looking at how people changed their behaviour after being exposed to good agronomic practices, the detrimental impacts of aflatoxins 2 and effective solutions for mitigating aflatoxin contamination of grain and food.…”

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Improving efficiency of knowledge and technology diffusion using community seed banks and farmer-to-farmer extension: experiences from Malawi

Okori¹,

Munthali²,

Msere³

et al. 2022

Agric & Food Secur

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Background Agri-innovations are mostly delivered to farmers through private and public sector-led institutions around the world, with various degrees of success in Malawi. These distribution systems, on the other hand, do not meet everyone's production and productivity needs, particularly those of smallholder farmers. Alternative gap-filling systems are therefore required. Over the course of 7 years, we performed two studies in Malawi to assess the efficiency of integrated farmer led agri-innovation delivery mechanisms, in order to advise programming and delivery improvements. The first study looked at the impact of farmer-led technology delivery on agricultural output and productivity. It was split into two phases: learning (2010–2015) and scaling-out (2016–2019). The second study looked at how smallholder farmers changed their behaviour, after receiving instruction during the scaling-out phase. A farmer-led social network, community seed banks, was used as the research platform. Results The number of farmers who had access to improved seed increased by 35-fold from 2.4% in the baseline year. Groundnut, the major study crop, had a 1.8-fold increase in productivity. In sorghum, and common bean, the difference in grain yield between beneficiaries and control populations was 19% and 30%, respectively. The lowest aflatoxin contamination was found in groundnut grain samples from trained farmers, showing that learning had occurred, with three training sessions sufficient for initiating and sustaining adoption of agri-innovations. Conclusions Many developing country economies have limited investments in agricultural extension and advisory services, and as well as inefficient agri-input delivery systems, limiting access to science solutions needed to boost productivity. The farmer-led technology and knowledge dissemination systems examined in this research, are appropriate for a variety farming contexts, especially for crops underinvested by private sector, and where public extension and advisory services are poorly funded.

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“…Classical Schumpeter's theory [11] attaches to innovations a decisive importance in regional economic development. Strategies of advisory services were suggested e.g., by Abbasi et al [12], Oliveira et al [13], Toepfer et al [14], Faure et al [15] or Franzel et al [16]. Toma et al [17] highlight that the access to innovation is an important factor of agricultural development besides of pure economic factors.…”

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New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

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The research was aimed at an overview and analysis of the demonstration activities in the Czech Republic dealing with the transfer of innovations for agricultural practice. Several methods were used to compile the national inventory, in particular the questionnaire survey method. The Czech part of the research was based on 30 questionnaires conducted among both farmers and agricultural organizations engaged in demonstration activities. The questions were focused on a specialization in agriculture, type of the management, connections with networks and their size, types of demonstration activities according to the types of farms and non-productive activities. The most common topics and purposes for demonstration in the Czech Republic are recorded for the category arable land with combined crops. Highly linked to sustainability are activities such as conservation agriculture on arable land with combined crops, root crops and fodders mainly due to a reduction of soil erosion within crop production and animal health management and welfare for dairy within livestock production. The Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a subsidy program to help farmers in the form of illustrative practical demonstrations of comprehensive sustainable farming practices. The main added values for the end-users, if the generated knowledge is implemented, are to strengthen the knowledge transfer system in agriculture, focusing on practical demonstrations and presentation of sustainable farming systems and soil protection in practice. However, the demonstration activities support mostly technological development and some individual ecological measures whereas the sustainability of agriculture as the complex process unifying the crop and animal production is not in the foreground.

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Farmer-To-Farmer Extension: A Low-Cost Approach for Promoting Climate-Smart Agriculture

Cited by 21 publications

References 11 publications

Climate-Smart Agricultural Extension Service Innovation Approaches in Uganda: Review Paper

Climate-Smart Agricultural Extension Service Innovation Approaches in Uganda: Review Paper

Improving efficiency of knowledge and technology diffusion using community seed banks and farmer-to-farmer extension: experiences from Malawi

New Approach to Sustainability in Rural Areas Comprising Agriculture Practices–Analysis of Demonstration Farms in the Czech Republic

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