Effective strategies include establishing regular dialogue forums and joint workshops to promote mutual understanding. Facilitating shared goals and cross-sector networking builds trust, while appointing knowledge brokers strengthens collaboration. Co-designing projects and engaging in participatory decision-making enhances multidisciplinary teamwork. Investing in communication skills and capacity building among all groups is critical for sustained interaction.

Effective strategies to foster interaction among scientists, extension personnel and policymakers include creating sustained, mixed-stakeholder working groups that rotate co-chairs (scientist/extension/policy), funding joint problem-oriented pilot projects with shared KPIs, embedding extension officers in research teams for seasonal cycles, running policy “translation sprints” to convert findings into short decision memos, and incentivizing secondments (researchers into ministries and extension into labs) so collaboration becomes institutionalized rather than ad-hoc.