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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureMaking extension and advisory services demand-driven 2020
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No results found.Faced with changing environmental and socio-economic conditions, rural producers must continuously innovate and adapt, calling on improved technical, marketing, or managerial skills and strategies. Effective Extension and Advisory Services (EAS), designed to address the varied and complex needs of actors – especially producers – throughout the agri-food system, are critical to facilitating that change. They also play a key role in helping producers formulate their demands, communicate them to other actors, and respond as required. However, our view of producers’ needs may not always reflect their actual demand. -
Book (stand-alone)General interest bookInnovations in financing mechanisms for demand-driven agricultural advisory services
The Case of Nariño Dairy Products Cooperative (COLACTEOS) in Colombia
2018Also available in:
No results found.At the request of FAO, the Latin American Center for Rural Development (RIMISP) conducted a case study on the financing mechanisms for the technical advisory services that the Nariño Dairy Products Cooperative (COLACTEAOS) makes available to its members. The purpose is to illustrate the experiences of COLACTEOS’s way of financing advisory services, some of its major effects, and to identify lessons learned that could motivate and guide other countries engaged in reforming their innovation systems and agricultural advisory services in particular. In order to carry out this analysis, information from available secondary sources was used as well as primary sources gathered during a visit to the COLACTEOS headquarters. Interviews were conducted with administrators, technicians responsible for providing technical assistance, staff that oversee and link producers to financial entities and key informants, and individuals familiar with the system and the Bogotá dairy production sub-sector. The study reviews the policies for the agriculture and livestock sector in Colombia and the evolution and current state of rural extension services. In this context, it describes the services offered by COLACTEOS to its members, with an emphasis on technical advisory services and the main financial services, along with the influence of some free trade agreements on the milk sub-sector. The study provides a brief summary of the portfolio of services provided by COLACTEOS and discuss the details of technical advisory services and financial services provided to producers, and describe the relationships between technical advisory services and financial services. The study describes the mechanisms for financing the technical advisory services, how the producers participate in influencing the services and some of the effects on dairy production. Finally, the study present a section containing conclusions and lessons learned. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookInnovations in financing mechanisms for demand-driven agricultural advisory services
Framework for analysis and synthesis of experiences
2018Also available in:
No results found.The reform of extension systems towards pluralism and more demand drive over the past decades and the shift towards Agricultural Innovation Systems went along with changes in financing mechanisms. This report is part of a series of four case studies and a synthesis of these cases undertaken by the FAO Research and Extension Unit. The series documents innovative types of financing mechanisms for demand-led agricultural advisory systems and services in Denmark, Chile, Colombia and Senegal. This synthesis report was established with a conceptual framework for analysis used to develop a synthesis of the experiences from the four case studies. It highlights the changes that have occurred due to the different financing models and describes to what extent this has resulted in farmer empowerment and in more relevant, effective and sustainable services. The synthesis also supplements the cases with a literature review on other cases of similar financing mechanisms and draws overall conclusions and recommendations.
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Journal, magazine, bulletinBulletinFPMA Bulletin #2, 9 March 2018
Monthly Report on Food Price Trends
2018International prices of wheat and maize increased further in February, mainly supported by weather-related concerns and currency movements. Export price quotations of rice also continued to strengthen, although the increases were capped by subsiding global demand for Indica supplies. In East Africa, in the Sudan, prices of the main staples: sorghum, millet and wheat, continued to increase in February and reached record highs, underpinned by the removal of the wheat subsidies and the strong depreciation of the Sudanese Pound. In Southern Africa, in Madagascar, prices of rice hit record highs at the start of the year, as a result of tight supplies following a sharp drop in the 2017 output to a substantially below-average level and a weaker currency. In West Africa, prices of coarse grains continued to generally increase in February and reached levels above those a year earlier despite the good harvests gathered in late 2017, due to a strong demand for stock replenishment, coupled with localized production shortfalls and insecurity in some areas. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookCrop water requirements 1992
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No results found.This publication is intended to provide guidance in determining crop water requirements and their application in planning, design and operation of irrigation projects. Part 1.1 presents suggested methods to derive crop water requirements. The use of four well-known methods for determining such requirements is defined to obtain reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo), which denotes the level of evapotranspiration for different climatic conditions. These methods are the Bla.ney- Criddl e, the Radiation, the Penman and Pan Evaporation methods, each requiring a different set of climatic data. To derive the evapotranspiration for a specific crop, relationships between crop evapotran.spiration (ETcrop) and reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo) are given in Part I . 2 for different crops , stages of growth, length of growing season and prevailing climatic conditions. The effect of local conditions on crop water requirements is given in Part 1.3; this includes local va riation in climate, advection, soil water availability and agronomic and irrigation methods and practices . Calculation procedures are presented together with examples. A detailed discussion on selection and calibration of the preSented methodologies together with the data sources is given in Appendix II. A computer programme on applying the different methods is given in Appendix III. Part 11 discusses the application of crop water requirements data in irrigationproject planning, des ign and operation.. Part II. 1 deals v.rith deriving the field water balance, which in turn forms the basis for predicting season.al and peak irrigation supplies for general planning purposes. Attention is given to irrigation efficiency and water requirements for cultural practices and leaching of salts. In Part 11.2 methods are presented to arrive at field and scheme supply schedules with emphasis towards the field water balance and field irrigation management. Criteria are given fo r operating the canal system using different methods of water delivery, and for subsequent design parameters of the system. Suggestions are made in Part 11.3 on refinement of field and project supply schedules once the project is in operation. The presented guidelines are based on measured data and experience obtained covering a wide range of conditions. Local practical, technical, social a.nd economic considerations will, however, affect the planning criteria selected. Therefore c aution and a critical attitude should still be taken when applyin.g the presented methodology. -
BookletCorporate general interestFAO’s work on agricultural innovation
Sowing the seeds of transformation to achieve the SDGs
2018Also available in:
No results found.This brochure presents FAO ’s work on agricultural innovation. FAO advocates a shift from interventions focusing on single components of agricultural innovation towards a system-approach aimed at strengthening institutions and stakeholders’ networks that better respond to the needs of smallholder farmers. Agricultural innovation is the process whereby individuals or organizations bring new or existing products, processes or ways of organization into use for the first time in a specific context in order to increase effectiveness, competitiveness, resilience to shocks or environmental sustainability and thereby contribute to food security and nutrition, economic development or sustainable natural resource management. Innovation is central to lifting family farmers out of poverty, tackling unemployment for youth and rural women, and helping the world to achieve food security and the Sustainable Development Goals.