INASP Rural Development
Most of the world's poorest people still live in rural areas. As part of our mission to enable worldwide access to agricultural information and knowledge, we support information exchange and collaboration among organisations and institutions working on agricultural and rural development issues.
For over ten years, the work to support information exchange within this area was coordinated within the programme "INASP Rural Devlopment", and activities included the following developing and maintaining a directory of organisations working on rural development and collaboration - these have now been incorporated into the INASP Directory. We also published three manuals in collaboration with CTA to support publication of research in this area:
- A Guidebook on Journal Publishing for Agriculture and Rural Development
- A Practical Guide to Marketing and Promotion for Agricultural and Rural Development Publications
- A Practical Guide to Bookselling
We are an active member of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) - the worldwide professional association in this sector. We lso have close ties with the FAO, CTA, the CGIAR as well as other country and regional networks and bodies working to improve access to agricultural information.
Recognising the usefulness of the Internet as a vehicle for electronic dialogue and discussion, in late 2003 we moderated and facilitated electronic discussions on the topic "ICTs - transforming agricultural extension?" Supported by CTA, the reports from the discussions are available at www.dgroups.org/groups/inars/ under 'resources'.
The ongoing activites that were grouped under this programme have now been incorporated within our overall programme of activities, and you can find details of them all within our Events, and Projects & Activities pages.
For further information, please contact Sara Gwynn, sgwynn@inasp.info