Here are a few of our main recommendations. We think it is important to keep management at the heart of the Growing Forward 2 framework and to promote it. It is also important to support the organizations that are dedicated to promoting and delivering agricultural management consultant services. This is currently the case in project funding in stream 4 of Growing Forward 1.
It is also important to support the collective formula of delivering management consultant services, which has proven its worth in the past 30 years, to emphasize support for training agricultural producers and encourage exchanges and techno-economic analyses, as well as group analyses. Lastly, we recommend keeping the PADEA in place and making it more flexible, because some services are not provided for in the deliverables identified.