FACING THE CHALLENGE OF AN HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC: AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA subjects: HIV/AIDS levels and types of education: Secondary and vocational education |
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English
| This handbook targets public and private extension institutions in order to expand their scope of work beyond transfer of agricultural technology and consider integrating environment, population, and HIV/AIDS education into ongoing agricultural extension programs, with a view to the sustainable livelihood of rural people. This manual tackles with the urgent need to prepare extension services in order to battle against the epidemic, to educate the farming population about the disease, and to develop new strategies, methodologies, materials, technology and equipment to serve the extension needs of thousands of new entrants in farming. |
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Related links Sustainable Development Department http://www.fao.org/
Contact: Magdalena Blum Research and Extension Division FAO Rome,Italy Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 magadalena.blum@fao.org |
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