Practitioner-Led Science for Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Transformation| 27–29 October 2026 | Online | 13:00–17:00 Swiss Time
What if the knowledge generated every day by agricultural extension practitioners could become recognised, credible and influential science?
The GFRAS Annual Meeting 2026 will bring together extension practitioners, farmers, researchers, universities, governments, professional bodies, development partners, knowledge platforms and advisory actors from around the world to explore Practitioner-Led Science for Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) Transformation.
Much of the knowledge generated through everyday extension practice remains undocumented, unpublished and invisible to the wider scientific and policy community. The result is a significant loss of knowledge, experience and innovation, and a missed opportunity for learning, professionalisation and scaling.
The three-day meeting will explore how practitioners can become active producers of evidence through Wearing Scientific Goggles (WSG), a framework that encourages practitioners to observe, document, analyse and communicate their own practice, and how a Negotiated Knowledge Space can create a credible interface between academic and practice-based knowledge.
Three days. Three conversations:
27 October — Practitioner-Led Science
Setting the scene, examining contrasting approaches to scholarship in extension, and exploring the motivations, barriers and capacities needed to strengthen practitioner-led science.
28 October — Wearing Scientific Goggles & the Negotiated Knowledge Space
Introducing WSG, hearing from practitioners and institutions already experimenting with the approach, and collectively defining what different actors can do differently to meet practitioners where they are.
29 October — The Future of GFRAS
Sharing success stories from the GFRAS network, exploring how organisations can sustain impact in lean times, and discussing the future direction, partnerships and sustainability of GFRAS.
The meeting will not simply ask practitioners to tell their stories. It will ask a bigger question: How can the knowledge created through practice become visible, credible, recognised and influential?
Join the global conversation and help shape the future of agricultural extension and advisory services.
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