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Impact Stories

How GFRAS promotes advocacy and leadership in rural advisory services for sustainable development

GFRAS is proud to share its "Impact Stories" document. This is a study collecting and describing several real-life examples that illustrate some of the different ways in which the GFRAS network adds value to the work of local actors and ongoing initiatives, with the aim of benefiting the lives and livelihoods of smallholder farmers around the globe.

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Recent Publications

Transforming Extension and Advisory Services to Promote Agroecology

Published On: 25 Jun, 2021

Rasheed Sulaiman V, CoSAI Commissioner and Co-Chair of Working Group 3: Pathways for Innovation in Sustainable Agriculture Intensification; Director, ...

Guidance Note on the Customization of NELK Module “Facilitation for Development” in Bangladesh AESA and BAEN (April 2021)

Published On: 21 Apr, 2021

In early 2020, GFRAS provided support to the Agricultural Extension in South Asia (AESA) Network and the Bangladesh Agricultural Extension Network (BA...

Full publication: Global Capacity Needs Assessment (GCNA) methodology - Integrating nutrition objectives into agricultural extension and advisory services programmes and policies

Published On: 22 Feb, 2021

FAO and GFRAS - through AESA - have engaged in a study focused on the development of a global capacity needs assessment (GCNA) methodology. The main g...

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Dr. John James, from Enablers of Change, Australia, gives an overview of what learners and extensionists can expect from this upcoming NELK module.

Hlami Ngwenya, a member of GFRAS, spoke during the FAO International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers.

Rasheed Sulaiman V., member of GFRAS board and head of AESA, spoke during the FAO International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers.

About GFRAS

The Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services GFRAS is about enhancing the performance of advisory services so that they can better serve farm families and rural producers, thus contributing to improved livelihoods in rural areas and the sustainable reduction of hunger and poverty. Rural advisory services help to empower farmers and better integrate them in systems of agricultural innovation.