Overview of Extension Philosophies and Methods (#0)
Governance, Structure
Agricultural Innovation Systems (#13)
Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Demand Driven Agricultural Advisory Services (#21)
Private Sector Provision of Rural Advisory Services (#29)
The Role of Producer Organisations in RAS (#12)
Capacity and Management
Management Advice for Family Farms to Strengthen Entrepreneurial Skills (#8)
Professionalisation of Rural Advisory Services (#27)
Rural Advisory Services Curriculum Development (#28)
Rural Advisory Services for Agripreneurship Development (#30)
Advisory Methods
Community Knowledge Workers for Rural Advisory Services (#14)
Edutainment TV for disseminating information about agriculture (#22)
Enabling Rural Innovation (#5)
Extension campaigns (#24)
Farmer Field Schools (#2)
Farmer Study Circles (#20)
Farmer-to-farmer Extension (#7)
Innovation Platforms (#1)
Navigating ICTs for Extension and Advisory Services (#11)
mExtension - Mobile Phones for Agricultural Advisory Services (#17)
Mobile Based Bundled Services (#3)
Plant Health Clinics (#23)
Rural Resource Centres: A Community Approach to Agricultural Extension (#10)
Service Provision by Agri-Cooperatives Engaged in High Value Markets (#19)
Social Media for Rural Advisory Services (#15)
Using Radio in Agricultural Extension (#18)
Videos for Agricultural Extension (#6)
Web Portals for Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (#16)
Cross-Cutting
Integration Gender into RAS (#4)
Integrating Nutrition into RAS (#9)
Involving Men in Nutrition (#26)
Promoting Nutrition-sensitive Extension Advisory Services (#25)
The purpose of this note is to highlight the emergence of private sectordelivered RAS that aim to address the gaps in traditional government extension. Private sector RAS can serve a company’s business goals while also providing farmers with the essential agronomic and business knowledge needed to be more productive and earn higher incomes. It is in the private sector’s interest to engage with and improve their clients’ farming practices in order to achieve increased company revenues and profits. This enables them to ensure commercial viability, resulting in long-term mutual benefits for farmers, employees, and shareholders.





















