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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetResearch and Extension – TAP-AIS project webinar: Joint rapid appraisal on strengthening agricultural innovation systems in Africa, Asia and Latin America by regional research and extension organizations 2021
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No results found.The webinar is organized in the framework of the TAP-AIS project (Developing capacities in agricultural innovation systems: scaling up the Tropical Agriculture Platform Framework) implemented by FAO’s Research and Extension Unit, and funded by the European Union as a component of the EU DeSIRA initiative. The project aims to strengthen agricultural innovation systems by promoting the capacity development framework of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP), a multi-stakeholder facilitation mechanism on capacity development for agricultural innovation systems. As part of the project, in 2020, Regional Agricultural Research and Extension Organizations (RREO) in Africa, Asia and Latin America jointly carried out rapid appraisals to scope the innovation environment and identify and document initiatives aimed at strengthening Agricultural Innovation Systems (AIS). The focus of the joint rapid appraisals (JRA) was on functional capacity development with a view to exploring ways in which RREO can support the development of these capacities using TAP approaches and tools. The three regional studies were consolidated in the Synthesis report, which will be launched during this event. The main objectives of the webinar are to raise awareness and promote joint actions by RREO on strengthening capacity to innovate through integration of TAP Common Framework for capacity development. Specifically the webinar will:- present key findings from the Synthesis report on capacity development for innovation
- raise awareness and advocate for joint actions by research and extension organizations
- identify entry points for integration of Common Framework of capacity development within the programmes and projects of Regional Research and Extension Organizations.
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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Issues and opportunities in the evolution of private forestry and forestry extension 1998
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ArticleForest Extension: Equitable partnerships for sustainable multi-functional forestry 2014
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No results found.The paper reflects on the emerging trends of extension theory and practice, and highlights how issues of social justice and ecological sustainability are increasingly the major challenges facing rural development and hence extension programmes. Forestry extension as a discipline can contribute to agricultural and agroforestry extension programmes, extension services of private industry, government and non-government organisations; farmers organisations; wildlife and parks services, among ot hers. The paper discusses the challenges and opportunities to forest extension from the changing economic environment, institutional reforms, and the international processes in sustainable forest management. It concludes that forestry extension requires to be demand driven; pluralistic in nature (allow for the participation of a multiplicity of service providers);focus on capacity building of farmers organisations in accessing technology and information; contribute to the development of benefit sharing mechanisms and access to markets. The paper provides examples of extension partnership models between farmers, between farmers and the private sector, and between service providers in the forest sector currently being supported FAO. Strong synergistic and iterative relationship with research along the research-development continuum is emphasised.
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