“Beyond Conversations on Extension: Enhancing Capacities to address Emerging Challenges” represents our ongoing effort to compile the next 100 AESA blogs (101-200) and Field Notes published between 2019 and 2023. The blog conversations in this book focus on enhancing the capacities of EAS to support its clients, primarily farmers but also other actors in the Agricultural Innovation System (AIS), in addressing emerging challenges.

The 111 conversations that we published over the last 5 years are grouped under the following 13 themes:

• Strengthening Extension Research
• Livestock Extension
• Digital Extension
• Gender, Youth, and Entrepreneurship
• Private sector and Farmer collectives
• Education and Teaching
• Approaches for Strengthening EAS
• Nutrition-Sensitive Extension
• Natural Resource Management
• Forestry Extension
• Governance and Policy
• Response of EAS to COVID-19
• Impact of COVID-19

The book concludes with a reflection on what else is needed beyond conversations to strengthen EAS.