Advancing rural advisory services in Arab countries to promote market orientation and inclusive transformation

31/12/2023

The regional study was elaborated by May Hani (FAO Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division), Valentina Sommacal (FAO Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division), Rasheed Sulaiman V (Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy – CRISP) and Cécile Berranger (FAO Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division).

Advancing rural advisory services to promote market-orientation in Lebanon. Making rural services work for small-scale farmers

31/12/2022

Rural advisory services play a crucial role in improving smallholders’ livelihoods and reducing rural poverty by equipping farmers with the information, knowledge and skills needed to increase their productivity and profitability, to manage risks, and to engage effectively with markets.

Advancing rural advisory services to promote market orientation in Egypt

31/12/2022

Rural advisory services play a crucial role in improving smallholders’ livelihoods and reducing rural poverty by equipping farmers with the information, knowledge, and skills needed to increase their productivity and profitability, to manage risks, and to engage effectively with markets. This entails diverse services that empower farmers to make informed decisions, manage their farms as sustainable businesses, and act collectively to improve economic operations.

Advancing rural advisory services to promote market orientation in Jordan

31/12/2020

Rural advisory services play a crucial role in improving smallholders’ livelihoods and reducing rural poverty by equipping farmers with the information, knowledge and skills needed to increase their productivity and profitability, to manage risks, and to engage effectively with markets.

The Gender and Rural Advisory Services Assessment Tool

31/12/2018

Special acknowledgements go to the technical reviewers of the document, namely Deborah Rubin, Margaret N. Mangheni and Andrea Bohn. The authors are particularly grateful for the support, inputs and comments provided by Andrea Bohn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Associate Director of INGENAES, throughout the development and validation of the tool.

Towards inclusive Pluralistic Service Systems

31/12/2017

This publication was prepared as a background document for the FAO Expert Consultation on “New Directions for Inclusive Pluralistic Service Systems” held in Rome, Italy from 11 to 13 May 2016.

Pluralistic Service Systems Market-oriented services for reducing rural poverty

31/12/2017

Some seventy five percent of the poor live in rural areas and the majority depend on agriculture for their livelihoods as smallholder farmers, pastoralist, fishers, or forest users (World Bank, 2016). Globally,

Tailoring rural advisory services for family farms

31/12/2016

This document benefited immensely from the comments and suggestions offered by many. We would like to acknowledge the review done by Kristin Davis (GFRAS) and Francesca Cofini (FAO). The authors would like also to thank Francesco Pierri (FAO) for his inputs and comments on an earlier version of this paper as well as Nimisha Mittal and Chandrakanth Madamanchi for their inputs and support (CRISP).

New directions for inclusive Pluralistic Service Systems

13/05/2016

This publication reports the results of the FAO Expert Consultation on “New Directions for Inclusive Pluralistic Service Systems”, held in Rome, Italy, from 11 to 13 May 2016. The meeting was organized by the Social Policies and Rural Institutions Division and the Research and Extension Unit of FAO in close collaboration with the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT). It is part of an ongoing collaboration between FAO and KIT on pluralistic service systems (PSS), led by May Hani,