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

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This is Marisa Gonnella, again.

All participants agreed on the importance of family production. Comments and experiences refer to different situations considering the contexts of rural development and cultural meanings established family production, making each experience unique. This is because rural extension works with social relationships so you cannot isolate and standardize methodology since the same methodology can be considered successful in one context and not in another. This issue must be present when speaking of adaptation of extension services to household production conditions.

Moreover, the key issue is to analyze between public and private interests extension services which priorities are set in relation to food production and the continuity of family production. The country data show a decrease in the number of producers, which are mostly of family production. A situation that has been existing since the late 1980s in countries and coincides with decades of expansion of private extension services. What kind of rural extension services and institutions do we think about when talking to adapt our rural extension services? What kind of institutions are required for the pluri institutions in rural extension services have priority to small and medium producers based organization whose productions are family work?

In Argentina, the experiences are diverse both in public service rural extension as well as the advice offered by companies related to technology inputs or processes. Experiences relate to capitalized family production.

With family subsistence production, the NGOs and public services have greater presence and have diversity of experiences.

In general the programs present difficulties of continuity when not installed from producer involvement and participation is not achieved only by incorporating a technology aimed at increasing productivity.

The expansion of soybean shows incorporation of technological packages, but not related to the participation of producers in institutions and forms of social organization through which participation is consolidated in institutional frameworks.

Marisa Gonnella
Professor of Rural Sociology
National University of Rosario
Argentina
54-0341-155809480
http://www.fcagr.unr.edu.ar/
e-mail: mgonnel (at) unr.edu.ar

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