Issue 2/2005

• Celebrating! 20 Years of BeraterInnen News
   
• Value Chains: What is Behind this ‚New’ Key Word? And What is the Role of Donors in Value Chain Development?
  by Daniel Roduner, LBL
   
• e-Moderation: A Professional Way to Facilitate Team Collaboration and Project Work via Internet Platforms
  by Gabriela Renggli, LBL
   
• Experience Capitalisation
  compiled by Elisabeth Katz, LBL, based on work together with staff of the IC-LEAF project in Bangladesh
   
• Changes in Society Require Changes in Agricultural Extension: Some Observations
  by A.W. van den Ban
   
• A Special Challenge: How to Establish an Extension and Information System for Nomadic Herders
  by Dr. Jochen Currle
   
• Going Public: Extension in Markets
  by Dr Eric Boa
   
• South Africa: A Smallholder’s Innovative Approach to Producing and Exporting Fruit
  by Tim Hart, Aubret Billet, Roberta Burgess
   
• Outcome Mapping (english)
  by Daniel Roduner and Walter Schläppi, LBL
   
• You Pay for What You Get. From Budget-Financing to Result-Based Payments
  by Markus Arbenz with contributions from Kaspar Grossenbacher, Magar Bansi Rana, Ram Risal and Markus Ischer
   
• Mainstream Economics Versus Sustainable Development
  by Kerstin Bernecker
    
• Enhancing the Quality of Development Interventions Through Consulting Companies as Implementers?
  by Muhammad Riaz

Issue 1/2005

• Focal Point for Rural Development – SDC’s New Initiative for Joint Work, Information, Sharing and Learning on Burning Issues
  by the Focal Point team (Lukas Rüttimann, Andreas Gerrits, Giancarlo De Picciotto, Willi Graf, Elisabeth Katz)
   
• Participatory Market Chain Approach
  by Thomas Bernet, André Devaux, Oscar Ortiz and Graham Thiele
   
• The Rural Services Franchise Company – an Idea for Providing Services with a Commercial Potential in Rural Areas?
  by Ueli Scheuermeier
   
• Communities of Practice (CoP) – From Own to Shared Knowledge
  A co-production of Ernst Bolliger (LBL), Urs Egger (SKAT), Manuel Flury (DEZA), Ueli Scheuermeier (LBL), Tonino Zellweger (LBL), Arthur Zimmermann (odcp-consult)
   
• A Very Special Market
  by Gabriela Neuhaus
   
• Sharing Knowledge to Enhance Development Work – Its Challenge and its Limits
  by Tonino Zellweger
   
• The Myth of Exit Strategies
  by Tonino Zellweger
   
• PLA – a Catalyst for Good Local Governance?
  by Silke Stöber
   
• Attitudes of Agricultural Scientists, Extension Personnel and Farmers towards Commercialisation of the Agricultural Extension Service: A Study in Sri Lanka
  by Dr. Rohana P. Mahaliyanaarachchi