Governance of Agricultural Extension and Advisory Systems

Devi Prasad Juvvadi is currently Director (Agriculture Management Resource Group) at Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad. He has over three decades of experience in agricultural research, teaching and consultancy and worked for various international projects supported by World Bank, UN, DFID in Middle East, Africa and India. Devi Prasad worked as Team Leader for World Bank supported A.P. Community Based Tank Management project and External M&E team of A.P. Well, a Netherlands supported project. He has published widely in international journals, published bulletins, review articles contributed to English and Telugu newspapers on agriculture and written policy papers, briefs and several books on agriculture. Devi Prasad travelled widely in over 30 countries in all the continents, presented papers at various international conferences and lectured in various universities in Turkey, Israel, USA etc. His current research interests include governance, innovation, change management in agriculture, climite change etc.

P. Chandra Shekara is Director (Agricultural Extension), National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management [MANAGE], Hyderabad, India. He has over 25 years of experience in Agricultural Extension Management, Agri-Entrepreneurship Development and Public-Private-Partnership and contributed for implementation of Agri-Clinics and Agri-Business Centres Scheme of Govt. of India where, 49,000 Agricultural Professionals trained and 21,000 Agri-ventures established. Dr. Chandra Shekara organized more than 275 national, international training programs, published 66 papers including 15 books and produced 9 films. He has been Programme Director, US-India-Africa Triangular International Programme to train Agriculture Extension Professionals from Kenya, Liberia and Malawi and several other countries in Asia and Africa. He is Executive Editor of MANAGE Journal of Agricultural Extension Management and Editor of monthly e-Bulletin "Agripreneur".