Shaping Change 

Shaping Change: Natural Resource Management, Agriculture and the Role of Extension

Edited by Drs Jess Jennings, Roger Packham and Dedee Woodside

In 2011, Shaping Change presented the current state of play of Extension and its role in Natural Resource Management and the commercial agriculture industry for the Australasia-Pacific region.

It is still a prime text for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and an essential reference manual for new and experienced Extension professionals alike, be they engaged exclusively in environmental conservation, agricultural productivity, or more commonly both.

Shaping Change is a collection of then contemporary papers on"extension".  The Foundation saw the book as a catalyst to trigger a move to smarter innovation processes that draw the elements of research, development and extension into one integrated project plan that changes the face of dairy. 

The Foundation provided $75,000 funding for the design and printing of the book and  focused on these innovation processes in workshops during 2011.

Over 35 leading thinkers and authors of Extension have contributed works regarding:
the historical origins and developmental path of Extension;

• a wide array of curent principles and practices for enabling change;
• the effective building of social and community capital; and
• the economics, policy dimensions and markets of Extension.

This book provides a much needed resource for anyone interested in shaping individual and/or community level change within challenging and often conflicted social and political environments, in pursuit of better lifestyles, livelihoods and landscapes for all of us, now and in future

Acknowledgements

APEN would like to acknowledge and thank all those involved in the development of the publication: 

Project leader   Dr Jess Jennings
Authors  Many of whom are APEN members 
Editors  Drs Jess Jennings, Roger Packham and Dedee Woodside
Printers Kondinin Information Services
and those who have endorsed the publication:

Tim Fischer AC, Formerly Deputy Priminister of Australia and  Ambassador to the Holy See
Prof Richard Bawden, Professor Emeritus, University of Western Sydney
Dr Judy Henderson, Chair of the Northern Rivers CMA
Prof Ray Ison, The Open University (UK) and Monash Sustainability Institute
Ian Kiernan AO, Chairman and Founder of Clean Up Australia and Clean up the World
Prof David De Krester AC, Governor of Victoria and Patron of the Geoffrey Gardiner Dairy Foundation