Number of documents: 64
Agricultural extension in Africa and Asia
Technical background material
2007 - World AgInfo Project - Carl K. Eicher
The purpose of this review is to summarize the literature on the role of agricultural extension systems in helping smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia increase agriculture production and their livelihoods.
Near East and North Africa, West Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, South-East Asia, Global -
English
Production system:
Organic cocoa production : a guide for Farmer Field Schools in Sierra Leone
Training material
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Cora Dankers, Chris Newell
The objective of the guide is to promote participants' production and export quality cocoa in sufficient quantities to fulfill export contracts
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Weaver ants help farmers to capture organic markets
Impact assessment
2007 - Pesticides News - Paul Van Mele and Jean-François Vayssières
Weaver ants are predatory insects which kill key pests of many tree crops effectively decreasing the need to use pesticides. Paul Van Mele and Jean-François Vayssières describe how these fascinating insects have been husbanded effectively in Asia to manage pests of citrus and cashew. Their use has recently been extended [...]
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts, Insects
Diffusion of information among small-scale farmers in Senegal: the concept of Farmer Field Schools (FFS)
Technical background material
2006 - Research Committee on Development Economics (AEL) - Pemsl, Diemuth E.; Waibel, Hermann; Witt, Rudolf
Recent research on the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach in agriculture in developing countries has raised some doubts on the economic impacts of this concept and especially the knowledge diffusion effects from trained to non-trained farmers. Based on a study in Senegal this paper hypothesizes that the question of the [...]
English
Production system:
Les écoles paysannes au Bénin: une approche participative de la diffusion des messages relatifs à la protection intégrée du cotonnier
Case study
2006 - Cahiers Agriculture - Patrick Prudent, Symphorien Loko, Maurice Vaissayre
L'integration d'une approche participative de la protection du cotonnier a partir des « Écoles paysannes » ou FFS.
French
Production system: Others
Farmer Field Schools on land and water management in Africa
Technical background material
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Proceedings of an international workshop in Jinja, Uganda, 24–29 April 2006.
This publication is the coordinated work of the Land and Water Division of FAO, the Agricultural Economics Institute of Wageningen Agricultural University and Research Centre (LEI/WUR), Environment Alert, and other partners. It was produced as part of FAO’s Land and [...]
Near East and North Africa, West Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
English
Production system:
Zooming-in zooming-out: a novel method to scale up local innovations and sustainable technologies
Impact assessment
2006 - Africa Rice Center (WARDA) - Paul Van Mele
In this paper, two case studies from Asia and Africa are presented that deal with developing, testing and disseminating educational videos. Processes that contribute to scaling up sustainable rice technologies are analysed. The next sections highlight key elements of effective videos, followed by how videos were used and what effect [...]
English
Production system: Cereals
Inventory of Farmer study group initiatives in Africa - a synthesis report
Technical background material
2006 - . - Arnoud Braun
English
Production system:
Cowpea, Farmer Field Schools and farmer-to-farmer extension: a Benin case study
Case study
2005 - Agricultural Research & Extension Network (AGREN) - Nicholas Q.R. Nathaniels
This paper presents the findings of a short qualitative study. It showed that pilot cowpea Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in Benin were a vital source of new skills and information, integrating a number of existing knowledge sharing networks of rural men and women.
English
Production system:
Grounding Agricultural Research in Resource-Poor Farmers' Needs: a Comparative Analysis of Diagnostic Studies in Ghana and Benin
Technical background material
2004 - NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - E.S. Nederlof, R. Tossou, O. Sakyi-Oawson and O.K. Kossou
Eight researchers from Ghana and Benin, with different backgrounds but all co-operating within the Convergence of Sciences project, conducted diagnostic studies as a first step of their research aimed at developing technologies together with resource-poor farmers. The purpose of including diagnostic studies was to increase the likelihood that the resulting [...]
English
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