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Rats are one pest that causes much damage to agricultural production in Viet Nam and other countries. In agriculture, rats damage many different kinds of crops directly on the fields and the produce in store houses. Rats are also vectors of diseases dangerous to people and animals, particularly, bubonic disease [...]

Empowerment is a key element of popular participation in rural development projects. In this sense, it is crucial to know the different approaches and methodologies capable of or with the potential to generate empowerment. This paper presents the results of a study done in the district of Boane, Mozambique, with [...]

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 [...]

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of the Kyrgyz republic in 1991 Kyrgyz agriculture went through deep structural changes, from large collective farms to household-scaled semi-subsistence farms. Former kolkhoz and sovkhoz specialists became smallscale farm- generalists with a huge lack of technical knowledge and entrepreneurship. Those [...]

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 [...]

Malian farmers have been cultivating millet and sorghum for millennia, but they are slow to adopt and develop modern varieties because it is difficult to observe the difference in yields in their fields, given the challenging local growing conditions. Farmer participatory approaches are therefore recommended. This paper applies an instrumental [...]

A video for incoming Peace Corps Volunteers or other extension agents working in rural agricultural development. Explains a bit of the background of Farmer Field Schools and some of the work of an agricultural volunteer in Mali, West Africa. If you are curious about what Peace Corps Volunteers who know [...]

Diálogo, interacción y aprendizaje son procesos dinámicos en el marco de desarrollo de capacidades. En este contexto, la colaboración entre actores múltiples juega un rol clave y, si bien su aplicación en la región es aún reciente, ya está en curso. Solo nos queda emprender un verdadero ejercicio de colaboración [...]

SUSTAINET EA as a regional Network operating in Eastern Africa endeavours to bridge the information gap on Sustainable Agriculture to reach smallholder farmers through publication of simplified technical manuals on good agricultural practices.