I think that apart from being the "slogan of the moment", SI in practice, is us providing farmers with the set of tools - information and skills for them to improve their systems managemnt through a better allocation of the resources they have at their disposal and those they can mobilize. For this to happen, personalized agricultural extension is critical because there is no generalized solution that will solve all farmers problems at once. SI, like CA and other technologies (Slogans) that have been promoted to date are knowledge intensive and have been implemented through a supply driven approach with less consideration to farmers circumstances. Therefore, despite beautfull in paper, implementation rates in the field are low. There is therefore a need to rethink how we want to do this and in my hamble point of view, it has to be done in an interactive and adptaive way in the field talking to farmers far from the field where all plot managemnt decisions are made.
I think that apart from being the "slogan of the moment", SI in practice, is us providing farmers with the set of tools - information and skills for them to improve their systems managemnt through a better allocation of the resources they have at their disposal and those they can mobilize. For this to happen, personalized agricultural extension is critical because there is no generalized solution that will solve all farmers problems at once. SI, like CA and other technologies (Slogans) that have been promoted to date are knowledge intensive and have been implemented through a supply driven approach with less consideration to farmers circumstances. Therefore, despite beautfull in paper, implementation rates in the field are low. There is therefore a need to rethink how we want to do this and in my hamble point of view, it has to be done in an interactive and adptaive way in the field talking to farmers far from the field where all plot managemnt decisions are made.