From education to rehabilitation: empowering farming communities through extension services for landscape restoration

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-023-03452-1" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-023-03452-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-03452-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10668-023-03452-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From education to rehabilitation: empowering farming communities through extension services for landscape restoration

Original language description

Public extension services disseminate awareness and promote community participation in landscape restoration efforts around the world. Due to the importance of forest restoration programs in Pakistan, access to public extension services can have a significant impact on community mobilization in reforestation efforts. This study quantifies the social and landscape restoration impacts of extension services in communities with and without access to extension services. It also identifies the factors influencing community-level access to extension services in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region of Pakistan. The results of our study showed that those communities that had access to extension services were more active and effective in restoring forest landscapes than those that didn’t have access to extension services. Extension services increased awareness of forest conservation, adoption and implementation of forest management strategies, changes in attitudes and behaviors, and social empowerment through capacity building. The findings suggested that several factors, including no roads to a village on hilltop, proximity/distance of a village to the extension office, lack of community cooperation with extension officers, weak government support for extension agents and elite capture in the communities restricted communities’ access to extension services. Based on the findings of the study, we recommend the development of infrastructure, especially roads to uphill villages, and the recruitment of more extension agents to include marginalized communities in extension programs.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40100 - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environment, Development and Sustainability

ISSN

1387-585X

e-ISSN

1387-585X

Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

11701-11701

UT code for WoS article

001004862900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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