cases from tanzania - Sustainet

Sustainable agriculture: A pathway out of poverty for East Africa’s rural poor
Figure 23 Quantitative scaling up enables more farmers to adopt a sustainable agriculture
technique
Networking and collaboration
Other organizations have a key role to play in spreading sustainable agriculture techniques.
Here are some successful methods.
• Schools The organization convinces education officials to incorporate aspects of
sustainable agriculture in the school curriculum. It then trains teachers who will teach
these topics.
• Collaboration with other organizations, such as NGOs, churches, research institutions
and ministries, to create awareness about sustainable agriculture and to mobilize these
organizations to support it.
extension
Regular government extension services provide relatively little information on sustainable
agricultural techniques. But Sustainet partners collaborate with the extension service where
possible, both with the extension institution as a whole and at the field level with individual
extension agents. Other techniques include the following:
• Resident extensionists The organization places its own extension staff in villages.
They build close relationships with local people, and implement and follow up the programme
activities.
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