Session 6.3 farmer to farmer extension in cameroon
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Farmer-to-farmer extension: a viable option to enhance
agricultural dissemination? Evidence from Cameroon
Ann Degrande, Sygnola Tsafack, Steven Franzel and Brent Simpson
World Congress on AgroforestryDelhi, 10-13 February 2014
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INTRODUCTION
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Staggering Production, Declining Resource Base & Enduring Poverty
Low adoption of agricultural innovations
Ineffective dissemination methods
Effective and low cost ways of disseminating agricultural innovations
Why growing interest in research on extension approaches?
Underfunded national agric
extension services
Little knowledge on how farmers access and spread information and material
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Why involve Community-Based organisations in agricultural extension?
• Not all extension services need to be organised or executed by government agencies
DECENTRALISATION AND DEMAND-DRIVEN
ORGANISATIONAL PLURALISM
EMPOWERMENT PARTICIPATORY
APPROACHES
• Not all aspects of extension are pure public goods
PRIVATISATIONFEE-FOR-SERVICE
PUBLIC PROVISION
Public sector finance essential in countries with many subsistence farmers
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ICRAF
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Source of agroforestry information
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Sources of information on agroforestry
Wide range of sources of information
Fellow farmers and farmer groups are important
sources of information
Source: Degrande et al., 2013. Adoption Survey
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METHODOLOGY
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ObjectivesTo characterise and assess farmer-to-farmer
extension approaches in Cameroon and determine which practices are most effective under varying
circumstances
– Assess experience of different types of extension services in using F2F extension
– Determine perceived effectiveness of F2F extension– Determine motivation of lead farmers involved– Identify benefits and challenges
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Organisations surveyedIdentified as potential
151
Contacted 119
Using F2F 47
Selected 31
Interviewed 25= 53%
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RESULTS
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Importance of F2F extension in Cameroon
government agricultural extension in Cameroon (2009 FAO data)
• Total economic active population in agriculture: 3,568,000
• Government extension staff: 1651
Þ 1 extension worker for 2161 farmers
Farmer-to-farmer extension (study done by ICRAF in 2013)
• 47 organisations involved with F2F extension in 7 regions– 60% national/local NGOs– 24% international NGOs – 16% Farmer Organisations– 0% Governmental Organisations– 0 % private sector
• 388 lead farmers/farmer trainers; => 1/3 women
=> 1 field staff for ± 17 LF=> 1 LF for:
± 4 groups/communities + indiv farmers training and advising ± 220 farmers
=> 50% of them do weekly visits
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Who is lead farmer?
Lead Farmer32%
Model Farmer
8%
Village Based
Program Promoter
4%
Locally based
trainer, farmer trainer
28%
Contact farmer
4%
Local an-imator, facilita-
tor, techni-
cian, Re-source person
24%
Different names used in F2F extension
Educated
Past performance, honest
Resident farmer
Capacity to learn
Interested
Able to read and write
Availability
Good communicator
Good behaviour, trustworthy
Hard working/role model
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
Criteria to select lead farmers
Number of organisations
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What are LF doing?
1. Train farmers2. Conduct follow-up
visits3. Mobilise communities
for meetings and demonstrations
4. Provide technical advise
• Training– Initial training– In-service training– External learning opportunities
• Extension material: brochures, posters, leaflets, …
• Inputs for demonstration: seeds, fertilisers, nursery material, …
• Transport (29%) and communication (37%)
• Reimbursement of expenses incurred to attend meetings and trainings organised by organisations
What support are LF getting?
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Motivation of lead farmers
Main reasons to BECOME a lead farmer
Main reasons to REMAIN a lead farmer
According to organisations
According to lead farmers
1. Altruism 1. Early access to new technology
2. Job benefits 2. Income generating potential
3. Income generating potential
3. Altruism
According to organisations
According to lead farmers
1. Income generating potential
1. Altruism
2. Job benefits 2. Job benefits
3. Early access to new technology
3. Early access to new technology
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Advantages of F2F extension approach
Increase
d cove
rage
More su
stainab
le
Less
costl
y
Increase
d adoption of in
novations
Builds lo
cal c
apac
ity
Increase
d relev
ance
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Institutional perspectiveLead farmer perspective
Advantages of F2F approach
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Overall performance appreciation : 7.5/10organisationsLead farmers
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CONCLUSION & IMPLICATIONS
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• Lead farmers do a wonderful job, but their role is not sufficiently known/recognised/supported
• Major challenges:– Selecting lead farmers– Motivating lead farmers (financial and non-financial incentives)– Technical and logistical support to lead farmers– Approach is not institutionalised/harmonised; very few organisations
have written guidelines on their F2F extension approach– Record keeping and monitoring and evaluation of F2F– Identifying farmers’ training needs and designing appropriate
training modules and material for lead farmers to use– Creating synergies with other agricultural advisory services and
notably with government extension services
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