Rural Innovation Systems

From \"best practice\" to \"best fit\" : a framework for designing and analyzing pluralistic agricultural advisory services

Birner, Regina | cop. 2006
  • Author(s): Birner, Regina
  • Publisher: International food policy research institute (IFPRI)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural extension, credit, public sector, private sector, research, guidelines, africa south of sahara
A framework for guiding research projects aimed at creating empirical evidence on designing effective pluralistic agricultural advisory services is presented. Elements include performance measurement and impact assessment.

From \"best practice\" to \"best fit\" : a framework for analyzing pluralistic agricultural advisory services worldwide

Birner, Regina | 2006
  • Author(s): Birner, Regina
  • Publisher: International food policy research institute (IFPRI)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural extension, credit, public sector, private sector, research, guidelines, africa south of sahara
A framework for guiding research projects aimed at creating empirical evidence on designing effective pluralistic agricultural advisory services is presented. Elements include performance measurement and impact assessment.

How to make agricultural extension demand-driven? : the case of India's agricultural extension policy

Birner, Regina and Anderson, Jock R. | 2007
  • Author(s): Birner, Regina and Anderson, Jock R.
  • Publisher: International food policy research institute (IFPRI)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural extension, small farms, poverty alleviation, women, south asia, india
Various strategies for making agricultural extension more responsive to the needs of all farmers, including women and the poor are discussed, using India's Policy Framework for Agricultural Extension as an example.

A participatory process approach for developing a pluralistic, demand led and market oriented advisory system : case study of Niger

Blum, Magdalena L. and Mbaye, Abdoulaye | cop. 2009
  • Author(s): Blum, Magdalena L. and Mbaye, Abdoulaye
  • Publisher: DSEEA. Facultà di agraria
  • Pages: 31--37
  • Keywords: agricultural extension, advisory services, small farms, poverty, private sector, public sector, market access, niger
FAO designed an inclusieve (public, private, NGOs and FOs) stakeholder process for assessing the existing extension systems in Niger and for developing a new, country-specific advisory system, which emphasizes small producers, pluralism, demand, market orientation, and poverty alleviation.

The choice of innovation policy instruments

Borrلs, Susana and Edquist, Charles | 2013
  • Author(s): Borrلs, Susana and Edquist, Charles
  • Publisher: Lund university. Centre for innovation, research and competence in the learning economy (CIRCLE)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: innovations, development policy, development strategies
Innovation policy instruments must be designed and combined into mixes in ways that address the problems of the innovation system. These mixes are often called "policy mix". The problem-oriented nature of the design of instrument mixes is what makes innovation policy instruments.
 

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