Advisory services

  1. GFRAS Global Survey on Social Media for Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services
    The ICT4RAS interest group of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) is conducting a global survey to understand the use of social media by the stakeholders of agricultural extension and advisory services. Please give your views on social media in the following questionnaire…
  2. 5th GFRAS Annual Meeting
    Co-founded and supported by the Global Forum (GFAR), to specifically strengthen and reform the advisory service and extension sector, the GFRAS platform is now delivering a range of activities to strengthen advisory service providers, and advocating for more effective advisory services as a…
  3. Global good practice initiative: Call for proposals to develop good practice notes
    Recognizing the need to strengthen agricultural advisory services around the world, GFAR was co-founder, and is a Steering Committee member, of the Global Forum on Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS).   With partners, GFRAS has initiated the Global Good Practices Initiative that provides…
  4. Collaboration for innovation: Rural Advisory Services in Central Asia and Southern Caucasus
    The Central Asia and the Caucasus Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (CACAARI) is one of six regional fora that promote agricultural research for development as part of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR). CACAARI is an important link in the GFAR chain, bringing…
  5. FAO e-mail conference on Rural Advisory Services for Family Farms
    Tailoring rural advisory services to family farms: FAO hosting an e-mail conference from 1 to 18 December 2014   The UN General Assembly declared 2014 to be the International Year of Family Farming and invited the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to facilitate implementation…
  6. Shaping the future together: Transforming agricultural research, education, extension and enterprise for development
    Mark Holderness, GFAR Executive Secretary, was invited as a moderator for the Network development meeting of the Eurasian Centre for Food Security (ECFS) in Moscow, Russian Federation, from 18 to 20 November 2013. Dr Holderness gave a keynote presentation ”Shaping the future…
  7. GFRAS Steering Committee meeting
    Harry Palmier represented GFAR in the Steering Committee meeting of GFRAS in Washington (15-16 April 2013).   The Steering Committee discussed a number of items including the organization of the External Mid Term Review of GFRAS to be carried out between June and September 2013 by a…
  8. GCARD2. Breakout session C3.2 Making Use of Knowledge and Advisory Systems
    The paper will discuss the role of advisory services within agricultural innovation systems; the importance of enhanced capacities for better performance at individual, organisational, and enabling environment level; the constraints and roles of actors at national, regional, and global level; and…
  9. AgriVIVO. Fostering better networking and collaboration among researchers, research managers, practitioners, extensionists, information managers in agriculture.
    Presentation of the AgriVIVO project: background and rationale, history of VIVO, AgriVIVO architecture and approach.
  10. Call for contribution! E-Discussions on Extension/advisory services and Young Professionals - Appel a contribution! E-Discussions sur la vulgarisation/les services de conseils agricoles et les jeunes professionnels
    The young generation plays an important role in extension and rural advisory services. It has to solve many of the current global issues and will face new ones. To rise to the challenge, young professionals working in extension and rural advisory services should be paid greater attention,…
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