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External assistance should be based on the assumption that when
efforts aimed at generating and disseminating agroforestry technologies
are conceived and executed in collaboration with national, institutions,
they will be both more appropriate for the circumstances of the country
and more conducive to a continuity of efforts than those planned and
implemented independently by international teams.
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Three types of collaboration are visualized for international
institutions, vis-a-vis the three roles identified for national
institutions (strategy development, institution-building and technology
generation). Such types of collaboration could be of a catalytic, a
complementary, or an executive nature. It seems that, in principle, the
role of external agencies in developing an agroforestry strategy is of a
subsidiary nature, i.e. that of eventually compiling an inventory of
existing land use projects in each zone, and supplying expertise to
identify the potential role of agroforestry in relevant ecological
zones. Again a catalytic role appears to be the most appropriate for the
design of Inter-institutional arrangements, while a complementary one
would be desirable at the formulation and implementation stages of
location-specific projects, and an executive one may be required for
training and the development of problems-/component-specific projects.
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