Agricultural Knowledge Management in North-West of Ethiopia

Understanding agricultural knowledge management system is important for agricultural development because it can help to understand their indigenous knowledge how to acquireuse and transfer their knowledge. In Ethiopiadifferent research and extension works have been done to alleviate agricultural problems but these efforts did not bring significant improvement.Currently among other developmental resources appropriate and relevant knowledge is an important resource. Howeverin Ethiopia little efforts are done to study agricultural knowledge management systems of certain locality. So this book can give brief understanding about agricultural knowledge management system and its challenges and opportunities to design and implement demand-driven agricultural research and extension works. Besides it helps for policy makersresearchers and extension workers how to strengthen and scaling up the existing knowledge creation acquisitionutilization and diffusion system of a success full locality and how to bring the knowledge sources transferors and users in one place to deliver the right knowledge at the right time and place to the right users.