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.
ODI Agricultural Administration Unit