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Civil servants, agricultural researchers, extension people and media experts often think that videos for farmers need to be filmed locally, so that the audience identifies with the actors. But this is not so. Farmers in southwestern and northern Nigeria reacted to videos on rice seed health (made in Bangladesh), on [...]

The main purpose of this Evaluation was to analyse and to document – in a gender perspective – the results and the lessons learned from using the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach in the Agriculture Sector Programme Support Phase II (ASPS II) in Bangladesh. The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the [...]

“Area-wide Fruit Fly Integrated Pest Management in South and Southeast Asia” is a regional initiative coordinated by the Asian Institute of Technology with funding support from Taiwan‟s ICDF (www.icdf.org.tw). The project has a focus on adaptation and adoption of fruit fly IPM practices among vegetable and fruit smallholder using Farmer‟s [...]

We are hopeful that the selection of structured learning exercises presented in the manual will provide good inspirational tools to the IPM trainers, extension personnel and farmers to create stimulating learning experiences for FF IPM trainers and farmers leading to sound scientific knowledge base for sustainable management of fruit flies.

The Farm Business School consists of a package of training materials intended to inform policy makers, train FBS facilitators and train farmers. The Training of Facilitators Programme is classroom-based and of a short 15 day duration. The Training of Farmers Programme consists of a series of meetings that take place [...]

he need to increase agricultural sustainability has induced the government of India to promote the adoption of integrated pest management (IPM). An evaluation of cotton-based conventional and IPM farming systems was conducted in India (2002–2004). The farmers managing the IPM farms had participated in discovery-based ecological training, namely Farmer Field [...]

In view of the market failures and the state failures inherent in providing agricultural extension, community-based approaches, which involve farmers‘ groups, have gained increasing importance in recent years as a ―third way‖ to provide this service. The paper discusses the conceptual underpinnings of community-based extension approaches, highlights theoretical and practical [...]

Recently the Government of KP has introduced a new extension approach i.e Farmers’ Field Schools (FFS) to build the capacity of farmers through discovery based learning. The present paper is based on the study designed to analyze the participation of farmers in the FFS as an alternative extension strategy to [...]

This study performed an economic impact analysis of the Farmer Field Schools (FFS) training program in three major cotton producing countries in Asia; namely China, India and Pakistan. The training program is based on the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach launched by the “FAO-EU IPM Program for Cotton in Asia”. In the three [...]

Government of KP introduced a new extension approach called Farmers’ Field Schools (FFS) in 2004 in the 24 districts of the province. The present paper is based on the study designed to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of FFS as perceived by farmers. The analysis shows that FFS improved knowledge of [...]