Innovations in rural extension : case studies from Bangladesh / edited by Paul Van Mele, Ahmad Salahuddin and Noel P. Magor.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Mele, Paul van.
• Ahmad, Salahuddin.
• Magor, Noel P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Poverty Elimination through Rice Research Assistance (Project).
• Rural extension--Bangladesh--Case studies.
• Rural development--Bangladesh--Case studies.
• Agricultural extension work.
• Rural conditions.
• Rural development.
• Rural extension.
• Bangladesh--Rural conditions--Case studies.
• Agricultural extension work--Bangladesh--Case studies.
• Bangladesh.

Genre:

• Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxi, 307 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., [2005]

Summary:

From 1999 to 2004 the Petrra (Poverty Elimination Through Rice Research Assistance) project explored the development of innovative extension mechanisms through a learning by doing process with multiple service providers. Partnerships linked government, non-government and private sectors as appropriate. Topics addressed by the project include seed production, marketing and distribution systems, crop and soil fertility management, postharvest technologies, mobile pumps, aromatic rice and integrated rice-duck farming. The methods used include women-led group extension, whole family approach, participatory video, Going Public and picture songs. This book examines these approaches to extension and assesses their potential for replicability and scaling-up. It includes four thematic sections with people-centred case studies and a conclusion with practical applications of the transaction cost theory. This highly original volume will interest a wide range of readers concerned with agricultural extension and rural development.

Contents:

• 1 New road map / Paul Van Mele 3
• Documentation 3
• Learning with Petrra 4
• Pathways out of poverty 6
• Changing directions 8
• Part II Gender
• 2 The right to learn: women want more agricultural advice / Thelma Paris, Shaila Arifa Nabi, Ahmad Salahuddin, Noel P. Magor 15
• Incorporating gender concerns 16
• Needs assessment and constraints analysis 16
• Call for concept notes and the Petrra approach to gender 17
• Enhancing men's and women's knowledge and skills 18
• Testing and validating technologies with farmers 19
• Testing different types of trainers and groups 20
• Testing learning tools with women 22
• What women learnt 23
• Major lessons from working with women 25
• 3 Breaking down barriers: village women spread the word / Helen Latifun Nessa, Paul Van Mele 29
• 4 Family approach in extension / Harun-Ar-Rashid 41
• 5 Bringing science to life: video development for women-to-women extension / Paul Van Mele, A. K. M. Zakaria, Rina Nasrin, Basanti Chakroborty, MD. Mojaherul Haque, Josephine Rodgers 49
• Part III Learning with rural communities
• 6 Creative learning methods / Jeffery W. Bentley, Paul Van Mele 63
• Bidding and learning with Petrra 65
• Petrra case studies 67
• Watch and learn 68
• Village soil fertility maps 69
• Going public 69
• Picture songs 70
• New directions in farmer training 71
• In each sub-project staff learnt something from farmers 71
• Learning content: appropriate technologies 72
• Methods: face-to-face and the media 72
• Marrying methods to content 73
• Mixing methods 73
• 7 Watch and learn: video education for appropriate technology / Paul Van Mele, A. K. M. Zakaria, Jeffery W. Bentley 77
• 8 Village soil fertility maps / Mohammad Abu Saleque, Harun-Ar-Rashid, Paul Van Mele, Jeffery W. Bentley 89
• 9 Going Public: a quick way to interact with communities / Paula Nash, Paul Van Mele 103
• 10 Picture songs / Jeffery W. Bentley, Mostafa Nuruzzaman, Qazi W. Nawaz, MD. Rafiqul Haque 115
• Part IV Enterprise webs
• 11 The enterprise web / Noel P. Magor 127
• The enterprise web: a holistic tool 128
• A generic example of an enterprise web 128
• The enterprise web as an explanatory and micro-analytical tool 130
• Selection and documentation of case studies 132
• Integrated rice-duck production 134
• Manufacturing and marketing mobile pumps 135
• Producing, processing and marketing aromatic rice 136
• Insights from the use of the enterprise web 136
• Learning about process 136
• In pro-poor extension social capital is critical 137
• Introducing the concept of governance 137
• Challenges for the enterprise web as a tool 138
• Achieving rigor in visualising the enterprise web 138
• Committing resources 138
• Extension method costing 139
• Unfreezing the culture to go solo 139
• 12 Integrated rice-duck: a new farming system for Bangladesh / Malik Anwar Khan, Gazi Jashim Uddin Ahmed, Noel P. Magor, Ahmad Salahuddin 143
• 13 Pump it up: developing a pro-poor mobile pump market / Badrul Alam, Noel P. Magor, Paul Van Mele 157
• 14 Adding flavour: a value chain approach for aromatic rice / M. Hassanullah, MD. Abdus Salam, Salim Ahmed, Noel P. Magor 169
• Part V Pro-poor seed systems
• 15 Innovations in seed systems / Solveig Danielsen, MD. Khairul Bashar, Mark Holderness 185
• The challenge 186
• Historical context 186
• PETRRA case studies 187
• Varieties and seed-based technologies 189
• Rice biodiversity 189
• Identifying appropriate technologies 190
• Demand and farmer awareness 190
• Recognising the value of good seed 191
• Assuring timely supply of affordable seed 191
• Farm-saved seed: scope for improvements 192
• Matching seed and outlet markets - the long-term perspective 193
• Quality assurance 193
• Communication and partnerships 194
• Maintaining the incentives 196
• Farmers 196
• NGOs 197
• Private sector 198
• Government institutions 198
• 16 More is more: validating rice varieties with NGOs and poor farmers / Musherraf Husain 203
• 17 Building a rice seed network / MD. Khairul Bashar, Ahmad Salahuddin, Paul Van Mele 209
• 18 Farmseed: putting farmers at the heart of the seed system / Paul Van Mele 221
• 19 Grameen seed: Grameen experiments with a pro-poor seed business / Paul Van Mele, Ahmad Salahuddin, MD. Abdul Jabbar 233
• 20 Innovating with federations: community institutions take the lead in seed marketing / Syed Samsuzzaman, Paul Van Mele 245
• Part VI Synthesis
• 21 People and pro-poor innovation systems / Paul Van Mele, Ahmad Salahuddin, Noel P. Magor 257
• Extension, complexity and poverty 257
• People matter 258
• Extension policy and public sector 258
• Donors and flexibility 260
• Projects, service providers and potential champions 261
• Reaching rural women: policy and reality 263
• Transaction costs: bringing people into economics 264
• Transaction costs in pro-poor service delivery 265
• Vertical integration or strategic networks 267
• Diversity of service providers 267
• Multiple actors: competing or complementing? 268
• Local government 270
• Learning networks and forums 270
• Multiple extension and learning methods 273
• Transaction costs in receiving extension services 273
• Learning from farmer field schools 274
• Other methods: going to scale 276
• Multiple learning tools 281
• Innovation systems research 284
• Unfinished business 284
• Administrative units in Bangladesh 300
• Map of Bangladesh 300.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0851990282

OCLC:

57124475