The importance of extension services in helping smallholder farmers to address the many
challenges of agricultural production cannot be over-emphasized. However, relatively few …

Agricultural extension, or advisory services, have a key role to play in supporting farmers'
learning and adoption of new practices and technologies. This paper analyses gaps and …

The relationship between agricultural extension and farmer productivity has been widely
discussed; agricultural extension directly or indirectly affects farmer productivity. In this study …

Although potato is considered to be one of the strategic crops for ensuring food security in
Ethiopia, the adoption of high yielding and disease tolerant improved potato varieties is low …

Ethiopia's development strategy rests on the promotion of a market economy, driven by 'new
entrepreneurs', both urban and rural, while, to bring it to 'maturity'and to compensate for its …

Customer satisfaction is the most important element for developing and sustaining
organizational priorities and practices. Thus, we examined farmers' overall satisfaction with …

Eighty-three percent of the population of Ethiopia depends directly on agriculture for their
livelihoods, while many others depend on agriculture-related cottage industries such as …

This study evaluates the effect of agricultural extension program participation on farm
productivity taking three case study kebeles (peasant associations) in Ethiopia. A total of …

This article analyses roles of social and extension networks in adoption of resource-
conserving practices among Ethiopian farmers. We gathered data from 297 randomly …

Wild edible plants (WEPs) are known to make important contributions to food baskets and
livelihoods in the smallholder and subsistence farming communities of sub-Saharan Africa …