Agricultural Extension is a vital policy tool to enhance positive behavioural changes and promote rural development. The use of interactive communication and extension tools are at the heart of this effort. Diploma students of Extension must have critical appreciation of the theories and models underpinning our understanding of extension processes and the use of extension tools for effective engagement with farmers and other actors. The course will provide students with insights that will enable to have an understanding models and tools and how they inform the choice of methods in extension services delivery for effective impact. The use of groups as platform for extension delivery is old age. The course will explore factors that enhances the cohesiveness of groups, the dynamics that underpin effective groups and conflict resolutions.
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Agricultural Extension is a vital policy tool to enhance positive behavioural changes and promote rural development. The use of interactive communication and extension tools are at the heart of this effort. Diploma students of Extension must have critical appreciation of the theories and models underpinning our understanding of extension processes and the use of extension tools for effective engagement with farmers and other actors. The course will provide students with insights that will enable to have an understanding models and tools and how they inform the choice of methods in extension services delivery for effective impact. The use of groups as platform for extension delivery is old age. The course will explore factors that enhances the cohesiveness of groups, the dynamics that underpin effective groups and conflict resolutions.