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Sanne Chipeta, Danish Agricultural Advisory Service (DAAS), Neuchâtel Group
Agricultural advisory services are defined as services that make new knowledge available to farmers and assist the farmers to develop their farming and management skills. The services may include:
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Dissemination of information
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Training and advice of groups of farmers or individual farmers
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Testing new technologies on-farm
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Development and dissemination of farm management tools
The main principles for Demand Driven Service Delivery Systems are the following:
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Services shall be driven by user demand
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Service providers shall be accountable to the users
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Users shall have a free choice of service providers
The framework presented in this booklet takes the concepts of the first Common Framework on Agricultural Extension of the Neuchatel Initiative a step further. It looks specifically at the mechanisms which enable small- and medium-scale farmers to put forth their demands and thereby access the services that they need. It provides policy guidelines on how best to support development of demand-driven agricultural advisory services and also on the appropriate roles of the different actors.
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