What is it about?
The article provides a vivid analysis of how cognate institutions pushing agricultural and rural development portray the failings in their complimentarity. Specifically, while on the one hand a national agricultural extension agency perceive farmers as too conservative in addressing crop damage by elephants, smallholder farmers on the other hand see the extension agency as lacking in its responsibility to address the problem.
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Why is it important?
The significance of the paper lies in its ability to analyze the existing problem in the elephant hot spot in northern Botswana and provide a road map to sustainably alleviate the problem of marauding animals.
Perspectives
The paper is an un-put-down-able piece, which conservationists and agriculturalists will find interesting to read and apply in their field practice
Prof Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole
University of Botswana
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This page is a summary of: Claims and counterclaims: institutional arrangements and farmers’ response to the delivery and adoption of innovations in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, November 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1389224x.2016.1260485.
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