Agricultural Research and Extension Network Discussion Papers include research-based policy advice on ways of increasing the effectiveness, efficiency and accountability of rural resource management and agricultural service delivery. This issue covers 1975–1988. 

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Articles included in this collection:

• Local diagnosis, farmer groupings: Coordination of services ; Consulting farmers; Farmer and community groups
• Report on a visit to India – February 1976: programmes for small and marginal farmers
• Notes on poverty-orientated rural development 
• Diagnosing the need for new technology
• Consequences of the logic of extension for its organisation
• The politics of agricultural planning and administration
• Women in rural development
• Management performance in agricultural projects
• Alternative approaches to project implementation
• Planning and management problems in the implementation of a major scheme: a case study of Mahaweli (Sri Lanka)
• Some field observations on rural India's development
• Involving women in rural development processes
• Training managers for agricultural development projects
• Evaluation and action research as tools of management reform
• Practical experience in implementing the training and visit extension system in large command areas in India
• The socio-economic organisation of farming in the Gambia and its relevance for agricultural development planning
• Appropriate village-level institutions: some generalisations from the case of Lesotho's village water supplies
• Rural community development in Oman
• Guidelines for the appraisal of agricultural projects
• Computing requirements of development authorities in the smallholder sector
• A review of experience with micros in evaluation and project planning in Nigeria
• Administrative levels for rural development functions: a suggested framework
• Identification of priority project areas for small farm
• Identification of priority project areas for small farm development – a case study in India
• Administering inland fisheries development in Madhya Pradesh
• The Development of Agricultural Extension in the Aegean Region of Turkey
• Getting and spending: some observations on the government of Kenya budgeting process
• The Performance of Extension Services in Botswana
• Agricultural development and planning in a South Pacific island
• Abstracts of recent field experience with farmer-participatory research.