Promises and Realities of Community-Based Agricultural Extension

Gershon Feder, Jock Anderson (), Regina Birner and Klaus Deininger

Chapter 12 in Community, Market and State in Development, 2010, pp 187-208 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Economists have often neglected the role of the community as a third pillar in the economic system next to the state and the market. Yet in agricultural development, which is often thwarted by both market and state failures, the “community mechanism” has a particular and promising role to play. It is one of Yujiro Hayami’s unique contributions to the economics literature that he developed “a conceptual framework for economists” that emphasizes the role of communities and shows how the contested concept of social capital can be applied to analyze them from an economic perspective (Hayami, 2009). At the same time, Hayami is not a “community romanticist” — he is well aware that, just like states and markets, communities can also fail.

Keywords: Social Capital; Integrate Pest Management; Extension System; Extension Service; Agricultural Extension (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230295018_12

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