Organizational mechanisms within an extension system include improving planning and feedback linkages with farmers and their organizations. Farmers can be formally represented on permanent extension advisory committees at the district, regional, and national levels. In general, members in these advisory committees would be elected by farmers through their respective organizations, from the bottom up. Finally, there should be crop, livestock, and/or a general research advisory panel organized at the provincial and/or national level to provide the opportunity for stakeholder input into research policies, priorities, and other concerns that cut across the research system. At these higher system levels, agribusiness representatives (input suppliers and processors) may join farmers in being represented on these research and extension advisory committees.