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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: comparative swot analysis of the national agricultural extension program organization to determine best-fit program model
    sub title: a case study of the north west and south west regions of cameroon
  name:
    name part: Nyambi, Gwendoline.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Shinn, Glen C.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Agriculture is crucial to the economic and social wellbeing of the Republic of Cameroon. A national need for increased productivity, farm incomes, food security and rural development requires more effective agricultural extension and advisory systems. The need is persistent. This study analyzed strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that existed within the current national extension program and examined how form, function, and policy influenced two regions in Cameroon. Analysis focused on 15-year time changes using a comparative case study design. Four regional focus groups and 28 individual interviews bounded 59 cases from four stakeholder groups of farmer leaders, non-governmental organizations, extension representatives, and governmental counterparts. Eighteen primary themes emerged with overlap of opportunities and threats among stakeholders. Incentives to program performance included staff competence and innovative technology transfer. Barriers included infrastructure, postharvest technology, market incentives, financial sustainability, and feedback. A lack of vision for sustainability, inadequate government funding, poor collaboration and linkages, uncoordinated parallel programs, and ineffective management systems reduced program potential. Four themes framed recommendations for improved programs: government investment, trainings, market incentives, and management. Options to improve program sustainability included subsidies that benefit all farmers, more council and private sector engagement with extension, rural infrastructure development, price standardization, and fees for service. Medium and large-scale farmers were willing to pay for extension services when and if available whereas small-scale farmers relied heavily on subsidized services. Accessibility to markets, farm size, and cash crop production are associated with farmers̕ acceptance of fees for service. These findings highlighted areas where changes in the nation̕ s agricultural extens…
  note: by Gwendoline Nyambi.
  note: "Major Subject: Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications"
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10983
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications
  subject:
    topic: Government investment
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural extension
  subject:
    topic: SWOT analysis
  subject:
    topic: Program sustainability
  subject:
    topic: Food security
  subject:
    topic: collaboration and linkgages
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10983
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 121017
    record change date: 20150922124446.0
    record identifier: in00002754911