Number of documents: 561
Effectiveness of Farmer Field School in promoting coffee management practices - the case of Jimma and Sidama zones
Impact assessment
2009 - Rural Development and Agricultural Extension, Haramaya University - Babur Damitie Endalew
This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the Farmer Field School approach in terms of examining farmers’ selection criteria, their profile and FFS implementation. It was also sought to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of FFS members and nonmembers regarding coffee management practices with reference to coffee [...]
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Farm nitrogen flows of four Farmer Field Schools in Kenya
Impact assessment
2009 - Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems - Christy L. van Beek, Davies D. Onduro, Louis N. Gachimbi, Andre de Jager
Re-use of nutrients within farming systems contributes to sustainable food production in nutrient limited production systems. Re-use is established when nutrients pass through several farm compartments before they leave the farm via marketable products. In this paper re-use of nitrogen is examined as an indicator for sustainable soil fertility management. [...]
English
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Pastoralist Field Schools Guidelines for Facilitation
Training material
2009 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Deborah Duveskog
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English
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Field Guide Exercises for IPM in Cotton
Training material
2009 - FAO - IPM Hanoi -
The Field Guide is a compilation of the learning activities during TOF and FFS training. Based on a field guide originally developed for the Indonesian Rice IPM Programme, additional activities have been incorporated and some adapted for the implementation of IPM training activities in rice and vegetables under the Vietnam [...]
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Impact assessment of Farmers Field Schools in Chhatarpur district
Impact assessment
2009 - Action for social advancement (ASA) - Ben Redmond
Much of rural India is suffering from what Prime minister Manmohan Singh has termed “technological fatigue in agriculture” (Kshirsagar A, 2008). In order to reverse this state of affairs, considerable investment and macro scale action is required. However, for sustainable and meaningful change, community level extension is vital. One response [...]
English
Production system: Crops
Facilitator training tool for FFS session quality control
Audiovisual material
2009 - JICA -
The Intensified Social Forestry Project in Semi-Arid Areas (ISFP), which is a technical cooperation project between JICA and Kenya Forestry Service (KFS), has been applying the FFS methodology in social forestry extension field since 2004. Based on experiences of ISFP, this multi-media material "Facilitator training tool for FFS session [...]
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Aprender haciendo: reflexiones sobre la implementación de la metodología de capacitación escuela de campo de agricultores para promover la producción sustentable y el consumo de hortalizas sana
Case study
2009 - SEPIA - Rossana Pacheco, Willy Pradel, Marisol Ramos
El siguiente artículo tiene como fin compartir las reflexiones del equipo HortiSana del Centro Internacional de la Papa, respecto a los aprendizajes obtenidos a partir de la implementación de la metodología ECA, para promover la producción sustentable y el consumo de hortalizas sanas en el Valle del Mantaro, de modo [...]
Spanish
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
A docência em uma escola do campo: narrativas de seus professores
Case study
2009 - Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas. - Juliana Pereira de Araujo, Rosa Maria Moraes Anunciato de Oliveira
Portuguese
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Participatory Rapid Appraisal of Mungbean Production and Protection Practices in Cambodia
Technical background material
2009 - Cambodia National IPM Programme -
English
Production system: Legumes
Conceptual and methodological developments in innovation
Technical background material
2009 - Wageningen University & Research - Neils Roling
I use an autobiographical approach to tell the story of innovation and its changing fortunes and uses. I have lived through the major approaches and perspectives in the past 50 years and have played some role in them myself. The paper starts off with my early days with the [...]
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