This policy brief is produced as part of the project Supporting Smallholder Farmers in Asia and Pacific Islands Region Through Strengthened Agricultural Advisory Services (SAAS Project), which is funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Together with APIRAS in this project are the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), Agricultural Extension in South Asia (AESA), Pacific Islands Rural Advisory Services (PIRAS), the Philippine Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Training Institute (DA ATI), Bangladesh Agricultural Extension Network (BAEN), and the Secretariat of the Pacific (SPC) in Fiji. APIRAS serves as the overseer in the Southeast Asian subregional component of the project, which is piloted in the Philippines.