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In the future when Agricultural, Natural Resource Management, or Environmental extension will be one discipline. Equally balancing hard and soft science, cultural, social, economic and ecological dimensions.
Small, smart, svelte organisations and innovative individuals will provide Extension services to Governments, Universities, and others wanting to reach their audience.
Extension initiatives will appear in a [...]
For most of my adult life I have loved a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “What If?”. It’s a poem that jolts you to consider an unexpected possibility, what if?
I was speaking to a friend of mine on Monday, he works for a government department. It’s not important who or where, but like many government [...]
If the human race is to thrive and prosper healthy food, fuel and fibre - agriculture and healthy air, water, soil, and landscape - environment, are not nice-to-haves but necessities. In order to have healthy agriculture and a healthy planet we require thinking at a whole new level (apologies Einstein). We need thinking, which is [...]