Unpacking a Technical Package: Flexible Messages for Dynamic Situations

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SUMMARY This paper describes an attempt to develop and evaluate agricultural extension materials that support farmers' use of flexible management strategies. On the basis of experiment station and on-farm research results relating to millet and cowpea intercropping in Niger, a series of recommendations was developed, taking the form of a decision tree. The process of testing this format at the level of field extension agents and the implications of this experience for both research and extension workers are described.