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Bogor 27th October 2014 Zita Ritchie – Dairy Extension Officer DEPI
Introduction to extension and
practice change
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What is extension?
•“Extension is the process of enabling change
in individuals, communities and industries
involved in the agriculture sector.” •SELN (2007) Enabling change in rural and regional Australia
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Extension can mean different things
to different people. It can mean:
• Making people aware of an important issue
• Providing knowledge or information to an individual or
group
• Teaching someone to develop a skill
• Encouraging sharing of knowledge or skills between people
• Altering an attitude held by an individual group or
community
• Motivating people to undertake a different practice
extension aims to lead to changes in farming
practices
Mike Boyd (2001) Extensions Skills, Principle and Practice Course Notes, DNRE
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Practice Change
•“Practice change relates to how farmers alter
their current practices to improve their
economic, environmental and social sustainability
within their industry” •Ryan et al (2004) Evaluation and practice change: a private and public sector collaboration . New directions for a diverse planet: Proceedings of the
4th International Crop Science Congress Brisbane, Australia, 26 Sep – 1 Oct 2004
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Knowing who we’re working with
…. The farmer
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Identifying your audience
• Extension programs are most successful
when they meet the needs of the farmers they
are directed towards
• Priority: focus on the needs of the farmers
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Segmenting Victorian farmers
Wilkinson et al. 2011
Phasing
down 17%
Not
productivity
orientated
8%
Selling out
13%
Productivity
constrained
14%
Productivity
but not scale
orientated
32%
Expansion
orientated
16%
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Face to face (group and individual)
Print (newsletters)
Phone (ad hoc and teleconference)
Online and knowledge brokering
Networks and groups
Intermediaries (service providers)
Mode of delivery (activity)
Awareness and
Signposting
On Farm
Practice
Change
(Impact)
Methods of extension – Australian
examples
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What makes a good extension
officer?
• Openness to new perspectives and ideas
• To seek to listen and learn (not to confirm
pre determined ideas)
• Sensitive to local context and culture
• Allow equal participation
• Good 2 way communication
• without trust NO practice change
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Farmer perceptions of regularly-used
advisors Anderson-1974
• Serve farmer’s interests
• Sympathetic (understand constraints)
• Help solve problems
• Practical rather than theoretical
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Facilitation tools and techniques
• Lots to choose from!
• Brainstorming issues and challenges eg
nominal group technique
• Ranking exercises
• Seasonal mapping
• Semi-structured interviews
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Adoption processes, simple or
hard?
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Role of the
extension
officer?
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Bennetts heirachy: A framework for planning extension
and evaluation
Goal
Adoption of
improved
practices or
technology
Change in participants after
involved in extension activities
Who? And what are their
characteristics?
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Summary
1. Focus on the needs of the farmers
2. Understand the type of practice you are trying to change
3. Design extension methods that are locally relevant and suit the audience
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For more information
Zita Ritchie [email protected]
+61 428 135 094
Thank you
Dairy Farm Monitor Project
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Bennetts heirachy: A framework for planning extension
and evaluation
SEEC Social, economic and environmental conditions achieved
through use of improved practices and technologies
Practice
change
Participant adoption of improved practices and
technologies
KASA
Change in participant knowledge, attitudes, skills and
aspirations associated with participation in extension
activities
Reactions
Participant feelings about or immediate responses to
their involvement in the extension activities and the
potential benefits
Extension
participants
Who participates?
What are their characteristics and requirements?
Activities Strategies, methods and scope of the extension events
and the communication efforts
Resources Time, money, staff used to plan, promote and
implement the project
(Goal)