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A new extension vision for food security a new extension vision for food security

Challenge to change

Year of publication 2003

Pages 24

Author William M. Rivera, M. Kalim Qamar;Climate, Energy and Tenure Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) As agricultural extension services are called upon to provide meaningful support to food security initiatives, they need to be transformed into a viable partner to fit in a pluralistic, multi-disciplinary and integrated effort involving many sectors, both public and private. This booklet offers a new vision comprising policy directions for that very transformation of extension. Its contents have been drawn from a major paper, "Agricultural Extension, Rural Development and Food Security Challenge ", written by the same authors.

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