July 2012

Predicaments of rural development interventions in Tigray region, Ethiopia

This ethnographic study was conducted in Tigray region of Ethiopia with the aim of assessing the problems of rural development interventions during the last twenty yearsi. The main objectives of the study were; to identify major intervention areas, examine community perceptions of government led interventions and examine overall challenges and prospects of the rural development option in Tigray region, Ethiopia. The...

Author(s): Kelemework Tafere

July 2012

Making knowledge-based services more demand-oriented? An experience with ‘public funding, public delivery’ extension in Bénin

This article examined newly emerging patterns of agricultural extension in the context of decentralization policy in Bénin. It assesses whether the promises of decentralization were met in the case of the ‘Experimental Development on Innovation’ (EDI) project. Thus, it assessed the extent to which service delivery became demand-oriented and effective in promoting production-enhancing technologies for...

Author(s): Clément Gbêhi, and Gerard Verschoor