Issues and lessons on strengthening Extension service delivery, entrepreneurship, and agricultural intensification in African farming Systems

Abstract

This Issue of African Journal of Rural Development includes eight papers addressing diverse topics: extension service delivery, promoting entrepreneurship in Agri-food Systems, land tenure, vermicomposting, livestock breeding, water harvesting, production of bioethanol from cassava and occurrence of devastating Fusarium wilt disease of bananas in Benin. These studies were conducted in different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and do provide insights into some of the issues and research being conducted across the continent. More of such research findings need to be disseminated widely using various publication outlets.

Key words: Africa, cassava bioethanol, entrepreneurship, extension delivery, land use management, vermicomposting