Posted on behalf of Mike Donovan, Practical Farm Ideas, UK
Dear authors,
My interest is The dissemination of improved methods for farmers and smallholders, and I search the report for an analysis of current knowledge transfer and recommendations for its improvement.
My involvement is the creation of Practical Farm Ideas http://www.farmideas.co.uk/ in 1992, and the subsequent development of the service, which has the potential for the principles to be transferred to the developing world. Even some content is suitable for adoption in farming systems based on smallholding.
Knowledge transfer is as important to the sector as marketing and banking / finance systems. Knowledge transfer, independent of those companies and organisations marketing products and services, allows the poor performer to move higher, the median smallholder to achieve production and efficiency through the use of methods and ideas passed to them by the best performers. This happens in the developed farming of the UK and is equally relevant in Africa, Asia and South America.
Yours
Mike Donovan
editor, Practical Farm Ideas
11 St Mary's St, Whitland,
Carmarthenshire, SA34 0PY www.farmideas.co.uk
FSN Forum Team