Suresh Babu BOOK LAUNCH Virtual Event - Agricultural Extension: Global Status and Performance in Selected Countries Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) SEP 10, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT

1. Agricultural Extension:
Global Status and Performance
in Selected Countries
Suresh Babu
International Food Policy Research Institute
Book Launch | 10 September 2020
Synthesis of Conclusions

2. Why? Extension’s role in rural transformation
Drivers or
Characteristics
Performance
Outcomes and
Impact
Frame Conditions

3. Broad Policy
Recommendations
 Extension Policy at the National
Level
 Extension Funding and Investment
 Extension Coordination
 Making Extension Demand Driven

4. Specific Policy Recommendations
 Improved Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
 Training and upgrading skills of Extension
Professionals
 Participation from farmers and stakeholders
 Effective use of Digital Technologies
 Meeting Emerging Needs

5. Looking Ahead
Extension service needs are constantly
changing
Research is needed to continuously
update our knowledge
Food system is rapidly evolving –
Extension and advisory services will
need to transform
Expansion of high-value agriculture

6. Looking
Ahead
 Growing role of the private
sector –
 Substitute for public extension?
 Increasingly pluralistic systems –
 How to coordinate for
effectiveness
 Natural resource constraints,
pandemics, and climate change
 Emergence of opportunities to
use big data
 Serving marginalized farmers
worldwide