Agricultural extension practitioners generate enormous amounts of knowledge every day—but much of it remains undocumented, unpublished and invisible to science, policy and development institutions.

The GFRAS Annual Meeting 2026 will tackle this challenge through three days of global dialogue on “Practitioner-Led Science for Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Transformation.”

Co-hosted by the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS), University of Florida and University of the Free State, the meeting will bring together practitioners, researchers, universities, governments, farmers, professional bodies, development partners and knowledge platforms to explore how practice-based knowledge can become a recognised and valuable part of the evidence base for agricultural development.