The changing nature of agricultural information and the conflictive global developments shaping extensionFootnote¹

Originally presented as The Privatization of Public Sector Agricultural Extension: the Commodification of Agricultural Knowledge and the Public Interest at a Society for International Development seminar held at the International Partners for Sustainable Agriculture, February 10, 1999, Washington, DC.

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