Description
Knowledge Driven Development: Private Extension and Global Lessons uses actual cases written specifically to study the role and capacity of private companies in knowledge sharing and intensification through agricultural extension. Descriptions of specific models and approaches are teased out of complex situations exhibiting a range of agricultural, regulatory, socio-economic variables. Illustrative cases focus on a particular agricultural value chain and elaborate the special feature of the associated private extension system.Chapters presenting individual cases of private extension also highlight specific areas of variations and significant deviance. Each chapter begins with a section describing the background and agricultural context of the case, followed by a description of the specific crop value chain. Based on understanding of this context, extension models and methods by private companies receive deeper analysis and definition in the next section. This leads to a discussion of the private extension with respect to its relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, equity, sustainability and impact. Following that, comparison with public extension, the uniqueness of the knowledge intensification model, and lessons for its replication and scaling up are elaborated. The final chapter summarizes the major results from the ten cases presented, looking at the trends, commonalities and differences of various extension approaches and the general lessons for success or failure. It concludes with a set of messages around value creation, integrated services, market links, inclusive innovation, and capacity development.- Provides understanding of different knowledge sharing and intensification models of extension delivery and financing by private companies across the agricultural value chains- Assesses the factors leading to successes or failures of various approaches- Draws lessons and recommendations for future endeavors relating to private extension policies and programs
Table of Contents
1. IntroductionYuan Zhou and Suresh Chandra Babu2. The Current Status and Role of Private Extension: A Literature Review and a Conceptual FrameworkSuresh Chandra Babu, Natarajan Ramesh, and Caitlin Shaw3. Private Approaches to Extension and Advisory Services: A Historical AnalysisR. Saravanan and Suresh Chandra Babu4. Private Sector Extension with Input Supply and Output Aggregation: Case of Sugarcane Production System with EID-Parry in IndiaSuresh Chandra Babu5. Kenya Horticultural Exporters: Linking Smallholders to MarketYuan Zhou6. Private Technical Assistance Approaches in Brazil: The Case of Food Processing Company Rio de UnaSuresh Chandra Babu, Cristina Sette, and Kristin Davis7. Syngenta Frijol Nica Program: Supporting Nicaraguan Bean GrowersYuan Zhou8. Private Sector Participation in Agricultural Extension for Cocoa Farming in Nigeria: The Case of Multi-trex Integrated FoodsKolawole Adebayo, Suresh Chandra Babu, Rahman Sanusi and Motunrayo Sofola9. Jain Irrigation Systems Limited: Creating Shared Value for Small Onion GrowersYuan Zhou10. Private Sector Participation in Agricultural Extension for Safflower Farming in India: The Case of Marico LimitedG.D.S Kumar, S.V. Ramana Rao and K.S. Varaprasad11. Private Provision of Extension through the Contract Farming Approach in Bangladesh: the Case of PRAN in BangladeshFatema Wadud, Suresh Chandra Babu, and Md. Safiul Islam Afrad12. Extension and Advisory Services for Organic Basmati Rice Production in Jammu and Kashmir, India: A Case Study of Sarveshwar Organic Foods Ltd.Rakesh Nanda, Rakesh Sharma, Vinod Gupta and Gaytri Tandon13. Private Extension Provision in Vietnam: A Case Study of An Giang Plant Protection Joint Stock CompanyPham Hoang Ngan, Tran Tri Dung, and Suresh Chandra Babu14. Private Sector Extension – Synthesis of the Case StudiesSuresh Chandra Babu and Yuan Zhou
