Nouvelles du G-FRAS
- Carl Larsen is GFRAS’ new Executive Secretary 06/06/2019Carl Erik Schou Larsen is the new Executive Secretary of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services. Dr. Larsen holds a Ph.D. and Master Degree in Tropical Animal Husbandry from the University of Copenhagen and a Master of Public Administration from Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He worked in Ethiopia and Kenya with the International […]
- RELASER officially becomes a TAP partner 04/06/2019RELASER - Red Latinoamericana de Servicios de Extensíon Rural - has officially joined the ranks as a partner of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP). TAP and its partners use this platform as a means to exchange experiences and learn from each other with the goal to strengthen innovation capacities in agriculture. Partners in TAP include […]
- GFRAS Impact Stories 15/05/2019GFRAS is launching a survey in order to generate some snapshots of the positive effects and impacts that itself, its regional networks, and the country fora had on policies, organisations, and individuals over the past years. At the end of this exercise, we hope to be able to illustrate some of the big successes of GFRAS. […]
- AESA: The First Six Years 13/05/2019The Agricultural Extension in South Asia (AESA) Network was formed in 2013 to meet the demand for a network of all those interested in extension and advisory services (EAS) in the region. Sustained efforts in the last six years have contributed to the development and promotion of new knowledge on extension research and practices, as […]
- 2019 GFRAS Annual Meeting 12/04/2019Save the date! The 10th GFRAS Annual Meeting, whose topic is "Role of RAS in Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management" will take place in Jamaica between 30 September and 4 October, and registration for the event will open soon, at the end of April. The concept note will also be available then. Side Events […]
- New FAO Gender and Rural Advisory Services Assessment Tool 10/12/2018The GRAST is designed to support providers of rural advisory services in their efforts to develop gender-sensitive programmes. By supporting the gender assessment of rural advisory services at policy, organizational and individual levels, the GRAST promotes a transformative approach to improve the gender responsiveness of the design and delivery of advisory services. Its ultimate objective […]
- What Works in Rural Advisory Services? 21/08/2018There is plenty of information available in the public domain that covers various aspects of rural advisory services (RAS; in many countries also referred to as ‘extension’). However, this information is often scattered, presented in complex academic language, and not readily accessible. RAS managers and practitioners, who often have very limited time and may have […]
- GFRAS Nutrition-Sensitive Extension Library 15/08/2018The GFRAS Nutrition Working Group (NWG) collected and organized the materials in this library so that extensionists, program developers, researchers, and decision makers would be able to access existing resources related to agricultural extension and advisory services (AEAS), and nutrition. Growing attention to the need to make food systems more responsive to human nutrition has […]
- GFRAS Issues Papers 04/06/2018This new GFRAS publication series highlights rural advisory services in important contemporary international development topics. The first issue examines how Rural Advisory Services (RAS) will need to be suitably adapted to the needs, challenges, and opportunities facing young rural women and men in today’s rapidly changing economic, social, and environmental contexts. The second issuelooks at the role of RAS […]
- New NELK Plus Module on Nutrition-Sensitive Extension 13/04/2018Every country on the earth is affected by poor nutrition and the results of poor nutrition affect most families. What can agricultural extension professionals do to support better nutrition? And what might be unrealistic to expect of extension? By completing this training, you will have the opportunity to consider these questions and others and to […]