Every country has developed, formulated, and decreed national policies related to rural advisory services. Find some examples here. If you are looking for a national policy from a specific country, please use the search function, selecting the category “National policies” and the tag for the country.
The Government of the Republic of Zambia has formulated a Livestock Development Policy to guide the effective implementation of activities and programmes in the livestock sub-sector. The Policy defines the overall objective and sets specific priority policy guidelines and strategies for achieving the vision of Government for livestock development
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- Author(s) Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Republic of Zambia
- Year 2012
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Endorsed policy documents
- Country/Region Zambia
Power Point Presentation on the case of Uganda's extension reform process (1996 - 2011), held at the Innovations in Extension and Advisory Services International Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, from 15-18 November 2011
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- Author(s) Patience B. Rwamigisa and Birner, ReginaYear
- Year 2011
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Presentation
- Country/Region Uganda
This Agricultural Extension MAnual is built on the Agricultural Extension Policy and Strategy for Timor-Leste and serves three purposes: (1) It guides agricultural extensionists and coordinators during planning and field level implementation of agricultural extension activities. (2) It gives guidance to representatives on national and district levels as to their supportive roles in the development of agricultural extension contents. (3) It serves as reference for agricultural extension personnel of donor funded programs, local NGOs, and INGOs working in agricultural extension in Timor-Leste.
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- Author(s) Repúblika Demokr´tika Timor-Leste, Ministériu Agrikultura no Peska
- Year 2011
- Type of Content Manuals and guidelines (how-to)
- Type of Document Endorsed policy documents
- Country/Region Togo
A rapid improvement in food production, food security and farm incomes is a pressing national priority and Government of Timor Leste has been directing considerable resources to this objective. However, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has previously lacked the capability to work effectively with farmers. Part of the Government’s strategic response to the food security challenge has been to establish a new agricultural extension system with the capacity to provide support and encouragement to farmers in all parts of the country.
This document gives an overview of the development of extension in Timor Leste as well as key policy issues.
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- Author(s) Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Timor Leste
- Year 2008
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Endorsed policy documents
- Country/Region Timor-Leste (East Timor)
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- Author(s) Agriculture and Livestock Task Force, Government of South Sudan
- Year 2011
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Endorsed policy documents
- Country/Region South Sudan
Una propuesta de lineamientos de política para el futuro
Las sistemas de extensión son la estrategia básica para incrementar la productividad, disminuir los costos unitarios, diversificar la producción, agregar valor, diferenciar las producciones, adecuarse a los estándares de calidad exigidos por el mercado y disminuir la inseguridad alimentaria. Para enfrentar este desafío se establece el Sistema Nacional de Innovación y Transferencia de Tecnología Agroalimentaria (SNITTA), que juega un rol crítico para el desarrollo de la competitividad del sector agrícola ya que significa transitar hacia un enfoque en el que predomina la innovación tecnológica y la asistencia continua orientada a resultados concretos. Debido a su importancia, se realiza este estudio, cuyo objetivo principal es ofrecer recomendaciones y propuestas de política tecnológica que contribuyan a mejorar los sistemas de extensión y transferencia de tecnología en
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- Author(s) BID, RELASER, FAO
- Year 2014
- Type of Content Conceptual (definitions and frameworks)
- Type of Document Brief
This document is divided into two main sections. Section one gives a brief background of the political, administrative changes in the democratic dispensation and recommendations for the delivery mechanism in the South African agricultural sector. This sets the basis for articulating appropriate norms and standards. Section two focuses on the norms and standards to guide the provision of extension and advisory services to all spectra of clients. These norms and standards form the guidelines for the implementation of Agricultural Advisory Service Programme across all provinces.
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- Author(s) Department of Agriculture, Directorate for Scientific Research Developmen
- Year n.a.
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Research Papers and Studies
- Country/Region South Africa
This volume is a collection of agricultural sub-sector papers which provide very clear insights into the various land based food production sub-sectors being examined, with the principal aim of achieving a higher national food security. It aims to achieve that through environment sustainability and mainstreaming climate change considerations especially for adaptation measures. It analyses the food production efforts to date, investigates resource utilisation in the land based food production activities and identifies the shortfall. It proposes new targets for national food production in a concrete plan for the next five years and guides the focus of food production on the principle of exploiting areas in which there are national comparative advantages.
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- Author(s) Department of Natural Resources, Republic of SeychellesYear:2007 Policy & advocacy Seychelles
- Year 2007
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Endorsed policy documents
- Country/Region Seychelles
Speech delivered by Akinwumi Adesina, Minister of Agriculture, Nigeria at the Brussels Policy Briefing on ‘Agricultural resilience in the face of crises and shocks’, Brussels, 04 March 2013.
The speech covers six policy areas for improving resilience, based on experiences in Nigeria: access to affordable agricultural inputs, access to financial services, building capacity to predict shocks to inform risk management, encourage drought tolerant crops, improved water management and social safety net policies.
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- Author(s) Adesina, Akinwumi
- Year 2013
- Type of Content Conceptual (definitions and frameworks)
- Type of Document Research Papers and Studies
Summary Note on the New Nigerian Agricultural Policy from 2001. The new policy document bears most of the features of the old one, but with more focused direction and better articulation.
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- Author(s) Unknown
- Year 2001
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Position papers and reports
- Country/Region Nigeria
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This implementation guide includes the four pillars upon which the DAESS is built, tools for facilitating farmers’ demands, the DAESS implementation structure, its functions and its relationship to the Local government structure.
The District Agricultural Extension Services System (DAESS) introduces a new approach to agricultural extension services provision at decentralised levels. The objective of the DAESS is to empower farmers to demand high quality services from those that are best able to provide them. In order to facilitate implementation of DAESS, this guide has been written for all agricultural extension service providers including public and private sectors, Non Governmental Organisations, Community Based Organisations, Faith Based Organisations, and Farmer Based Organisations
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- Author(s) Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security Malawi
- Year 2006
- Type of Content Manuals and guidelines (how-to)
- Type of Document Endorsed policy documents
- Country/Region Malawi
One of the objectives of this policy document is to present a framework for the future of extension in Malawi by highlighting a number of key guiding principles and the roles that various key actors and agencies can play.
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- Author(s) Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Department of Agricultural Extension Services
- Year 2012
- Type of Content Conceptual (definitions and frameworks)
- Type of Document Endorsed policy documents
- Country/Region Malawi
Presentation on FISP and the extension debate in perspective in Malawi, asking questions such as: Is there a deepening crisis of extension human resource? Is demand driven pluralistic extension policy folly?
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- Author(s) CHinsinga, B.
- Year 2012
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Research Papers and Studies
- Country/Region Malawi
The National Agricultural Policy seeks to raise the profile of the agricultural sector so that it effectively contributes to the national development aspirations of turning the country from a predominantly consuming to a producing and exporting nation, targeting all value chain stages.
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- Author(s) Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
- Year 2011
- Type of Content Conceptual (definitions and frameworks)
- Type of Document Endorsed policy documents
- Country/Region Malawi