The Agriculture, Climate, and Energy Challenge and EAS
1. Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services:
Defining the Challenges of the
21st Century
MEAS Global Learning Exchange
on Best Fit Approaches in Brent M. Simpson
Extension and Advisory Services Michigan State University
Washington, D.C., June 6, 2012
2. World Population Growth
World Bank: 100
percent increase in
cereal production by
2050;
FAO: 70 percent
increase in cereal
production by 2050.
27. What does this mean for AES?
• Better educated field staff and managers
• Improved access to different types of information
• Greater inter-sectorial coordination
• Higher levels of collaboration between EAS actors
• Contextualized reliance on markets
• Recognition of and increased reliance on farmer
agency
28. This presentation was given by:
Dr. Brent Simpson
Michigan State University
on behalf of MEAS
at the Global Learning Exchange on Best Fit Approaches in Extension and
Advisory Services
Washington, D.C.
on June 6, 2012
30. Disclaimer:
This presentation was made possible by the generous support of
the American people through the United States Agency for
International Development, USAID. The contents are the
responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the
views of USAID or the United States Government.
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