The “New Extensionist”: Roles, Strategies, and Capacities to Strengthen Extension and Advisory Services
Extension and advisory services (EAS) 1 play an important role in agricultural development. However, these services need new capacities to address the current challenges in agriculture and to contribute better to agricultural innovation – a process that that requires interactions and knowledge flows among a wide range of actors in the agricultural innovation system (AIS).
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