The role of extension and advisory services in building resilience of smallholder farmers:

The assumption underlying this hypothesis is that farmers lack the knowledge, resources, or both to adequately prevent, anticipate, prepare for, cope with, and recover from shocks. Extension and advisory services may be able to rectify this information asymmetry, or knowledge inequality, by providing or facilitating access to a variety of assets.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Davis, Kristin E. ; Babu, Suresh Chandra ; Blom, Sylvia
Institutions:	International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Subject:	food security \| Nutrition security \| Smallholders \| extension activities \| Weather \| Advisory services \| resilience \| shocks

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	2020 Conference briefs.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series 2020 Conference Brief Number 13
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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