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This document examines the benefits of planning a FFS with peruvian small coffee producers.

Guía metodológica sobre ECAs basada en la recolección de información de América Central y Sud América.

Farmer field school programs incorporating farmer participatory research (FPR-FFS) have the potential to provide important benefits to their participants and to other farmers who benefit from improved cultivars and management techniques. An FPR-FFS program in San Miguel, Cajamarca, Peru, has been in place since 1999 with an emphasis on management [...]

Manual con información validada en Perú y Bolivia sobre la marchitez bacteriana de la papa (MB). Esta guía intenta ser una herramienta flexible para ser usada como recurso para facilitadores de ECAs o de CIALs, o para profesionales de campo que requieran capacitar a agricultores o experimentar con ellos de [...]

Economic evaluation of the Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) in the Cajamarca Department (Peru) was undertaken to help determine whether agricultural extension via FFSs can contribute to poverty alleviation. Farmer Field Schools involving a number of important crops have already been evaluated at other sites around the world. These studies reported [...]

Using survey-data from Peru, this paper evaluates the impact of a pilot farmerfield-school (FFS) program on farmers’ knowledge of integrated pest management (IPM) practices related to potato cultivation. We use both regression analysis controlling for participation and a propensity score matching approach to create a comparison group similar to the FFS [...]

El interés por la implementación de las ECAs en el altiplano boliviano y su ejecución en la cosecha de la papa.

El caso de la provincia del Carchi, en el norte del Ecuador según su manejo de plaguicidas y fertilizantes a través de ECAs en cuanto a la producción de la papa.

El artículo explora la adaptación de la ECA al contexto forestal en Ecuador.

The manual draws on both scientific information resources, such as the CABI Crop Protection Compendium, and field experiences in designing and validating farmer participatory exercises that facilitate the knowledge transfer to IPM practitioners in the field. The manual consists of two major parts: Part 4* provides the technical background on [...]