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Dairy Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Tool Box for advisers and planners |
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Step H |
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Are public investments in dairy farmer education required? |
Main interventions to enhance Farmers' skills
- Support to training through advisory services, integrated,
- 'Whole farm´ approach,
- Farmers field schools (FFS),
-`Farmer to farmer´ etc. for dissemination and training of farmers and service providers,
- Establishment of demonstrations and demonstration farms for screening and testing new methods,
- Use of gender sensitive approach, include farmwomen participation and use female advisers plus involve the youths.
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Tool H15.3 |
Dairy farmer education programmes
(1) FAO. Agriculture in education and training: issues and opportunities.1997. URL: http://www.fao.org/sd/EXdirect/EXre0003.htm
(2) Maguire, C.J. “Agricultural education in Africa: Managing change” In: Extension Education. Reshaping African universities and colleges for the 21st Century. Proceedings of workshop in Accra and Cape Coast, Ghana; 4-6 September 2000. p. 29-43.
(3) “Improving access to knowledge and information in Kenya’s smallholder dairy industry” In: SDP Policy Brief 9. URL: http://www.smallholderdairy.org/ |
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Tool H15.4 |
Relevance of (dairy) farmer education
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Tool H15.5 |
Cost and benefit of (dairy) farmer education
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