Knowledge Driven Development‎:‎ Private Extension and Global Lessons uses actual cases written specifically to study the role and capacity of private companies in knowledge sharing and intensification through agricultural extension‎.‎ Descriptions of specific models and approaches are teased out of complex situations exhibiting a range of agricultural‎,‎ regulatory‎,‎ socio‎-economic variables‎.‎ Illustrative cases focus on a particular agricultural value chain and elaborate the special feature of the associated private extension system‎.‎ Chapters presenting individual cases of private extension also highlight specific areas of variations and significant deviance‎.‎ Each chapter begins with a section describing the background and agricultural context of the case‎,‎ followed by a description of the specific crop value chain‎.‎ Based on understanding of this context‎,‎ extension models and methods by private companies receive deeper analysis and definition in the next section‎.‎ This leads to a discussion of the private extension with respect to its relevance‎,‎ efficiency‎,‎ effectiveness‎,‎ equity‎,‎ sustainability and impact‎.‎ Following that‎,‎ comparison with public extension‎,‎ the uniqueness of the knowledge intensification model‎,‎ and lessons for its replication and scaling up are elaborated‎.‎ The final chapter summarizes the major results from the ten cases presented‎,‎ looking at the trends‎,‎ commonalities and differences of various extension approaches and the general lessons for success or failure‎.‎ It concludes with a set of messages around value creation‎,‎ integrated services‎,‎ market links‎,‎ inclusive innovation‎,‎ and capacity development‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Yuan Zhou‎,‎ Suresh Babu
• Publisher‎:‎ Academic Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9780128022313