There is growing global interest in better leveraging Agricultural Extension Services (AES) as a foundation for food and nutrition security. Pluralistic AES (defined in Box 1) consist of rural, agriculturally focused extension and advisory services implemented by public, NGO, and private-sector entities. They reach millions of farmers and represent largely untapped potential for influencing pro...

In order to meet the needs of modern agriculture, with the internet of things and related technologies, the author has developed a set of agricultural condition monitoring and diagnosing of integrated platform for experiment. The platform used the client and server mode, include environmental factor of monitoring platform, intelligent decision sub platform and expert remote science and technolo...

Globally, ministries of agriculture, universities, and the private sector employ more than 600,000 extension agents (Swanson, Farmer, and Bahal 1990). In the past, extension services, largely public, were equated with the transfer of agricultural production technology in pre-determined “packages”. Extension systems are now understood to be much broader and more diverse, including public and pri...

The World Wide Web offers very promising perspectives for communication of up-to-date information which is tailored to fit the conditions of the particular user. The WWW makes it possible and practicable to collect up-to-date information from different relevant, independent sources and integrate it in the information presented for the user. This makes the WWW a potentially very valuable tool fo...

Decision making in agricultural production is a complex process in which many risks such as natural, economic and social ones need to be considered. Climate change is one important example for complex risks causing ambiguities. How can farmers be supported to pro-actively deal with and adapt to climate change? A comprehensive answer to this question can create a good potential for an improved r...