1.
Perspective from Africa
Agricultural Extension: Global Status and Performance
in Selected Countries
Prof Margaret Najjngo Mangheni
Makerere University
Uganda
Book Launch | September 10

2.
Key Areas Affecting African Extension and Advisory Services
1. Sustainable and adequate financing
 Evidence based case for investment in agricultural extension and advisory
services
 Who pays for what?
 Incentivizing beneficiaries to pay/cost share?

3.
Key Areas Affecting African Extension and Advisory Services
2. Cost-effective coverage for unserved/ underserved areas and people
3. Capacities
 Competencies needed
 Balance between technical and functional competencies
 Professionalism, certification, continuing education

4.
Key Areas Affecting African Extension and Advisory Services
4. Diversity of service providers—pluralism
 Emerging innovative private-sector providers e.g. traders, farmer trainers,
youth entrepreneurs etc.
 How to develop their capacity, harness, coordinate, regulate

5.
Key Areas Affecting African Extension and Advisory Services
5. Governance
 Which structures and institutional processes work under various complex
pluralistic contexts for food and nutrition security, sustainable inclusive
growth?
 Serving diverse clientele—women, men, youth, private-sector value chain
actors
 Gender responsive and market-oriented services

6.
Looking forward
 Structures for cross learning exist—African Forum for Agricultural Advisory
Services (AFAAS), Country Fora linked to Global Forum for Rural Advisory
Services (GFRAS)
 The book has potential to stimulate improved practice, professional and
policy debates, and hopefully further research in agricultural extension and
advisory services