As agricultural extension services are called upon to provide meaningful support to food security initiatives, they need to be transformed into a viable partner to fit in a pluralistic, multi-disciplinary and integrated effort involving many sectors, both public and private. This booklet offers a new vision comprising policy directions for that very transformation of extension. Its contents have been drawn from a major paper, "Agricultural Extension, Rural Development and Food Security Challenge", written by the same authors. We hope that this user-friendly version on a very important subject will be useful for senior decision while thinking about achieving sustainable food security and reaching this goal, working within the arena of multiple actors.
Ester Zulberti
Chief,
FAO, Extension, Education and Communication Service
[email protected]
