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Moderated conference on rural advisory services for family farms: 1-18 December 2014

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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:04:31 +0100
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This is Francis Chilenga again from Ministry of Agriculture, Malawi.

I would like to concur with Dr. Deogratias Lwezaura from Tanzania (message 85) that we need to integrate indigenous knowledge of family farms into mainstream rural advisory services. Recently, a local farmer-led innovation emerged among global Top 20 innovations that benefit small farmers. The competition was launched by the Dutch-based organisation the Center for Technical and Rural Cooperation in Agriculture (CTA) ACP-EU and I was the one who wrote about the innovation story.  A lot of family farms are innovating but their knowledge is completely unrecognised because of the dominant conventional rural advisory services. It is high time that as professionals concerned with rural advisory services, local innovations that seem promising for upscaling and outscaling should be promoted while tasking research to explore such innovations. [For more information on the CTA Top 20 innovations, see http://www.cta.int/en/article/2014-10-14/cta-top-20-innovators-to-be-trained-in-scientific-writing.html ...Moderator].

Francis Wakisa Chilenga
Principal Agricultural Officer
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security 
Karonga Agricultural Development Division 
P/Bag 4 
Karonga 
Malawi
cell: +265 888 384 679
e-mail: fwchilenga (at) yahoo.co.uk
 
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