Agricultural Knowledge Management in North-West of Ethiopia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783639355253)

Understanding agricultural knowledge management system is important for agricultural development because it can help to understand their indigenous knowledge, how to acquire, use and transfer their knowledge. In Ethiopia, different research and extension works have been done to alleviate agricultural problems but these efforts did not bring significant improvement.Currently, among other developmental resources, appropriate and relevant knowledge is an important resource. However, in Ethiopia little efforts are done to study agricultural knowledge management systems of certain locality. So, this book can give brief understanding about agricultural knowledge management system and its challenges and opportunities to design and implement demand-driven agricultural research and extension works. Besides, it helps for policy makers, researchers and extension workers how to strengthen and scaling up the existing knowledge creation, acquisition, utilization and diffusion system of a success full locality and how to bring the knowledge sources, transferors and users in one place to deliver the right knowledge at the right time and place to the right users.

Author: Assefa Habtemariam
ISBN-10: 3639355253
ISBN-13: 9783639355253
Publisher: VDM Verlag
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2011
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d