The Universities’ Consortium on Extension and Advisory Services is an affiliate of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS). It is a platform for academia in universities and other training institutions, researchers in the field of extension, and/or service providers to various clientele along the agriculture value chain and in need of forms of support in rural livelihoods and wellbeing. The consortium was established out of a discussion on “new extensionist” capacities needed in extension and advisory services (EAS), specifically a meeting in Pretoria, 14-15 March 2013.