Chapter 11
Rethinking Knowledge Provision
for the Marginalized: Rural Networks
and Novel Extension Approaches in Vietnam
Iven Schad, Thai Thi Minh, Volker Hoffmann, Andreas Neef,
Rupert Friederichsen, and Regina Roessler
Abbreviations
AHW
Animal Health Worker
AKIS
Agricultural Knowledge and Information System
CEW
Communal Extension Worker
EFREN Ethnic Farmer Research and Extension Network
ExtClub Extension Club
ForRes
Foreign (non-Vietnamese) Research Organization
MARD
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
NatRes
National Research Organization
I. Schad (*) • V. Hoffmann
Department of Agricultural Communication and Extension (430a), University of Hohenheim,
Stuttgart, Germany
e-mail: ivenschad@web.de
T.T. Minh
Institute of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of LIFE, University of Copenhagen,
Copenhagen, Denmark
A. Neef
Resource Governance and Participatory Development, Graduate School of Global
Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
R. Friederichsen
CSIV International, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
R. Roessler
Department of Animal Breeding and Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics (480a),
University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
H.L. Fro ¨hlich et al. (eds.), Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast
Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas, Springer Environmental
Science and Engineering, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33377-4_11,
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