Assessment of an outsourced agricultural extension service in the Mutasa district of Zimbabwe



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DOI: 
10.5897/JAERD2015.0677
ISSN: 
2141-2170
Licence de la ressource: 
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
Type: 
Article de journal
Journal: 
Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
Nombre: 
5
Pages: 
142-149
Volume: 
7
Année: 
2015
Auteur: 
Machila, M.
Lyne M.
Nuthall P.
Editeur(s): 
Description: 

Zimbabwe has a pluralistic agricultural extension system. In addition to the public extension service, donors contract private service providers to deliver extension services in specific project areas. This study assesses the impact of an outsourced extension service on rural households in the Mutasa district of Zimbabwe’s Manicaland Province, and examines the financial cost and benefit of this service. The extension service was delivered by a local agribusiness firm and funded by USAID. The study analyses survey data gathered from 94 client and 90 non-client rural households.

Αnnée de publication: 
2015