book chapter
The current status and role of private extension
A literature review and a conceptual framework
2015
Publisher(s): academic press
Citation
Babu, Suresh Chandra; Ramesh, Natarajan; and Shaw, Caitlin. 2015. The current status and role of private extension: A literature review and a conceptual framework. In Knowledge driven development: Private extension and global lessons, ed. Yuan Zhou and Suresh Chandra Babu. Chapter 2. London, UK: Academic Press. http://ifpri.worldcat.org/oclc/911268908
Chapter two of the book Knowledge Driven Development: Private Extension and Global Lessons (Academic Press), which 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.