WEBINAR: Entrepreneurship in extension and advisory services, Enabling environment for promoting entrepreneurships

 6 April 2021.  Entrepreneurship in extension and advisory services, Enabling environment for promoting entrepreneurships.

The pluralistic Extension and Advisory Services (EAS) systems, which recognise the diversity of EAS providers, nowadays need to address many more demands of a wider variety of clients that go far beyond production and technology transfer. Hence, the EAS systems are challenged to transform themselves to encompass innovative entrepreneurship models and rapidly develop entrepreneurship capacities. To that end, EAS actors and institutions require specific conducive environment that would ensure fast progress and scaling up.

Recognising the increasing importance and complexity of entrepreneurships in EAS and their enabling environment, FAO’s Research and Extension Unit (OINR) of the Office for Innovation is organising the second webinar on the entrepreneurship within the EAS. The first webinar, held on 9 November 2020 presented diverse entrepreneurship types and initiatives in various EAS contexts such as social and local entrepreneurships, the role of youth and producer organisations. The webinar also has identified drivers and motivating factors for the entrepreneurships in EAS and discussed and prioritized key factors for scaling up the entrepreneurships in EAS.

The second webinar expounded on the enabling environment for boosting entrepreneurship in EAS and:

• Discussed public-private partnerships in EAS and the incentives needed for their operationalisation
• Highlighted the elements of the enabling environment such as policies and legislative frameworks, financing and capacities needed for boosting the entrepreneurship in EAS actors and organizations, ensuring service quality, avoiding exclusion etc.
• Discussed the opportunities in reforming EAS by including entrepreneurships/business models and mechanisms to provide effective support to sustainable and resilient food systems.

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The first webinar, held on 9 November 2020 presented diverse entrepreneurship types and initiatives in various EAS contexts such as social and local entrepreneurships, the role of youth and producer organisations. The webinar also has identified drivers and motivating factors for the entrepreneurships in EAS and discussed and prioritized key factors for scaling up the entrepreneurships in EAS. To watch the recording of the first webinar, visit here.