MoabiMatsepe1

After reading the briefing from the 15th GFRAS Annual Meeting held in Senegal feels very relevant to my educational background and experience pertaining to Agricultural Extension Education.
The focus on integrating Rural Advisory Services (RAS), enhancing capacities of advisors, and coordination of research, training and advisory systems seems to address exactly what some of us are currently trained for.
As a post-graduate student in Agricultural Extension Education, I completely agree that advisory services are more than just pure delivery methods, and that they involve social processes, organizational processes and educational processes that need competent professionals and competency-based frameworks.
The plea for emphasis on endogenous and community-level advisors, in addition to web technology for outreach in remote farmers, especially youth, has special relevance in African agriculture.
The momentum generated by Senegal reaffirms my commitment to work through evidence-based and people-centric and inclusive advise systems that connect education and practice.

Extension and advisory services play a central role in enabling farmer transformation, yet their potential is often underutilized.
In your experience, what practical approaches have been most effective in strengthening extension systems to support inclusive and sustainable agricultural development?
I look forward to learning from the experiences shared within the GFRAS–EFAT Community of Practice.