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Nouvelles du G-FRAS
- Addressing Challenges and Seizing Opportunities: Developing Effective Partnerships in RAS 08/06/20189th GFRAS Annual Meeting 23 - 25 October 2018, Headquarter of the Rural Development Administration, Jeonju, Republic of Korea with side events on 22 October 2018 Public sector, private sector, non-governmental organisations, producer organisations are all involved in RAS and contribute through various arrangements to the provision and financing of RAS, though to varying degrees according […]
- 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 […]
- Revised GFRAS Policy Compendium 27/03/2018The GFRAS Policy Compendium is a tool that contributes to filling the gap between the rural advisory services (RAS) policy environment and RAS efforts in the field. It helps direct decisions and facilitate successful policy processes and outcomes in extension and advisory services by making knowledge accessible, fostering synergies and promoting policy processes to improve RAS and rural […]
- Agricoolture - Making Agriculture Cool Again 01/03/2018During the 8th GFRAS Annual Meeting in Australia in 2017, the theme revolved around youth and how they engage in or are engaged by rural advisory services. A number of the young participants came together during the conference and discussed the idea of strengthening the way forward after the Annual Meeting by creating a Youth Working […]
- Capacity Assessment of Regional Networks 16/01/2018Regional and sub-regional networks and country fora play a crucial role in the operationalisation and implementation of GFRAS work and in strengthening and advocating for RAS within their regions. They also help make sure that GFRAS puts forward the right activities and priorities on a global level, providing sort of a reality check for GFRAS’ […]
- Enhancing Knowledge and Experience Sharing along the Mekong River 20/11/2017The third annual meeting of the Mekong Extension Learning Alliance in Cambodia discussed the role of RAS in nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food security with some very concrete aspects like the impact of misusing pesticides.
- Professionalisation of Rural Advisory Services 28/07/2017Businesses and other institutions around the world are increasingly using the term ‘professionalism’ to describe their level of service provision. While some professions, for example medicine and engineering, have been well known and recognised through standard qualifications for many years, others – such as rural advisory services (RAS) – have only recently begun to aspire to a high level of […]
- Gender Mainstreaming in Agricultural Value Chains: Promising Experiences and the Role of Rural Advisory Services 09/05/2017Promising Experiences and the Role of Rural Advisory Services While much has been written about the importance of mainstreaming gender in agricultural value chains (and the challenges inherent in doing so), relatively few studies have provided details on cases in which gender integration has been successful. This study, therefore, presents a collection of experiences in which rural advisory services (RAS) were […]
- Manual on Good Practices in Extension Research and Evaluation 26/04/2017The Agricultural Extension in South Asia Network (AESA) a manual on Good Practices in Extension Research and Evaluation is developed as a hands on reference manual to help young researchers, research students, and field extension functionaries in choosing the right research methods for conducting quality research and evaluation in extension. It has been compiled by the resource persons […]
