Potential topics include, but are not limited to the following:

1: Agricultural extension and rural development approaches in Tanzania

2: Validation of the RIPAT approach

1. Assessment of the cost-effectiveness of the RIPAT approach.
2. Impact evaluation of the RIPAT approach: overall effect on hunger and poverty reduction, technical and economic efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability.
3. The uniqueness of the RIPAT approach in expanding/simplifying access to agricultural extension services in terms of financial and human resources.
4. Use of field experiments to identify factors that may influence sustainability of the RIPAT approach.

3: Functioning of the RIPAT approach

1. How do technologies diffuse from the RIPAT groups to the rest of the communities?
2. What influences (innovatively and effectively) the RIPAT’s approach use through the third to fifth generations?
3. Group dynamics and decision making in projects applying the RIPAT approach.
4. Integration of the RIPAT approach with IO&OD and other development models.
5. Integration of nested markets into the RIPAT approach as a way of solving smallholder farmers’ marketing problems.
6. How RIPAT approach influences mindset change (sensitization for mindset change and mobilization for taking action).

4: The RIPAT approach and gender 

1. Gender responsiveness of the RIPAT approach.
2. Gender dynamics in farmer groups (leadership and participation in decision making).
3. The contribution of the RIPAT approach to youth employment in Tanzania.

5: Perceptions/attitudes on RIPAT approach

1. Farmers’ perceptions/attitudes on the RIPAT approach.
2. Agricultural extension field officers’ attitudes towards the RIPAT approach.
3. Politicians/government leaders’ perception of the RIPAT approach.
4. Willingness to pay for services supporting the spreading of RIPAT approach among communities.

6: Sustainability of the RIPAT approach

1. Sustainability of projects applying the RIPAT approach.
2. Evolution of the RIPAT approach.