Book: Search for Success in Rural Service Delivery

The book "Search for Success in Rural Service Delivery" has developed by over 30 researchers from Australia, Cambodia, China, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam when they joined a Refresher Course, conducted by lecturers from Larenstein (part of Wageningen University, the Netherlands) and Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry (Vietnam).

Readers may find it an useful reference source with abundant statics and examples. Furthermore, they may be lured by the stories behind the rural development efforts.

It deals with a broad spectrum, from theories to practice of rural issues, such as tea cultivation and processing, stakeholders’ involvement in coffee growing extension, agro-forestry education in market-driven contexts and economic disciplines.

They brought to the course not only theories in service delivery, marketing and institutional capacity building but also vivid cases, profound analysis of contexts that influence the development of agriculture and rural sector. Additionally, after experience exchanged, lessons were learnt to contribute in poverty reduction, which is widespread in the region.

Among the book authors and editors, some well-recognized scholars are Adam Fforde (Melbourne University), Tu Quang Hien (Thai Nguyen University), Dick Kattenberg and Jan Van Huis (Larenstein), and others.

The National Political Publisher, Hanoi, Vietnam, June 2007
150 pages, 19 x 23 cm, paperback

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