Farm Management in a Changing World

David Kahan (Author) David Kahan has over forty years experience in planning, implementation and evaluation of agricultural development projects. He specialises in rural institutions and supporting services (agricultural extension, marketing, financial services). His key areas of interest: agricultural innovation and extension, farm business management, agribusiness development, marketing extension, natural resource management, farming systems and capacity development. He has been a UN-FAO staff member, and has consultancy experience with WFP, IFAD, EU, DFID, CGIAR, AfDB, ADB and the World Bank.Steven Worth (Author) For 20 years Steven Worth worked in Agricultural Extension and Development as a field practitioner and manager in South Africa and then another 20 years as a professor, researcher, Director of the African Centre for Food Security and Dean and Head of the School of Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) from which he recently retired. He continues serving the university as a curriculum developer and manager of international projects in education. He brings to this book this wide-ranging expertise augmented by years of working as a private consultant with numerous public, private and NGOs agencies and agricultural educational institutions creating policies, plans and programmes on capacity development, wealth creation, rural development, and, especially, agricultural extension and education. Steven holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Business Masters in Agricultural Development, and a PhD in Agricultural Extension and Rural Resource Management from UKZN, South Africa.

• 1: The changing farming environment 2: The importance of small family farming to sustainable agricultural development 3: Understanding the farming system context for small family farm management 4: The Farm as a System: Unpacking the Smallholder Context 5: Modern Farm Management 6: Essentials of Management 7: Adapting to Climate change 8: Partnerships and Linkages for Agricultural Commercialisation 9: Essential Economic Concepts and Principles in Farm Management 10: Data and Information for Farm Management Decision-Making: A challenging frontier 11: Budgeting 12: Farm Management Methods: Diagnosis 13: Planning 14: Monitoring and Evaluation 15: The Farm and Agribusiness Management Advisory System 16: Farm and Agri-Business Management: a specialisation 17: Farm Business Management Support for Small Family Farm Development: future challenges and opportunities