Cooperative Extension Roles and Relationships for a New Era: A New Interdependence Model and Evaluation Synthesis to Foster Work with Other Agencies and Organizations

摘要

The publication focuses on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Cooperative Extension roles and relationships concerning technologies and practices for agriculture and associated environmental and consumer benefits. The publication describes roles of and relationships among: users of technologies and practices; the Cooperative Extension System; other public sector agencies, including research agencies; and private sector suppliers of information and technology. Seven general recommendations for action by Cooperative Extension are presented in Part I of the publication. The recommendations are based on implications of the new interdependence model. Part II of the publication indicates options for generic approaches and specific actions by Extension leaders--at the federal, regional, state/university, multicounty, and county levels. The options pose better ways to achieve Extension program effectiveness through improving intragency, interagency, and interorganizational coordination and cooperation.