Number of documents: 540
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 [...]
English
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The Farmer Field School project growing sustainable tea in Kenya
Information on projects
2009 - Unilever -
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Farm Forestry Field Schools Implementation Guide - Volume 1: Intensified Social Forestry Project (IFSP) in Semi-Arid Areas in Kenya
Training material
2008 - JICA, Kenya Forest Service, FAO - Takayuki Hagiwara, Shinji Ogawa, Patrick M. Kairuki, Jane N. Ndeti, James M. Kimondo
This guide is an attempt to provide an FFFS implementation guide for a wider audience including project designers and managers as well as field practitioners who intend to use the FFS platform for farm forestry extension. This volume also aims to provide not only a basic conceptual framework with [...]
English
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The ‘Business’ of the Public Sector: Extension in Transition and the Balance of Powers
Technical background material
2008 - Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE) - William M. Rivera
The paper addresses the public sector’s role in agricultural extension. The first part of the paper subtitled ‘Extension in Transition’ reviews the ideological and technological changes that have occurred since the 1980s and stresses the importance of educating producers and establishing a climate where they begin to organize themselves for [...]
English
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Effects of Training on acquisition of Pest Management Knowledge and Skills by Small Vegetable Farmers
Impact assessment
2008 - Crop Protection - Puyun Yang, Wenxin Liu, Xunan Shan, Ping Li, Jinyu Zhou, Jianping Lu, Yahong Li
Effects of farmer field school (FFS) and the conventional (classroom lectures) training on acquisition of pest management knowledge and skills by small vegetable farmers were studied in Yunnan province, China from 2003 to 2007. There were significant gains of knowledge about vegetable pests, natural enemies, insect and disease ecology and [...]
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
Community Farmer Field School Animal Health Facilitators: Hybridizing private animal healthcare and capacity building in remote pastoralist areas
Training material
2008 - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) - David J Watson
The report has four specific objectives. 1) To evaluate the inherent capacity of the Livestock Farmer Field Schools (LFFS) approach to contribute to the development goals of VSF-Belgium in Turkana, Kenya; 2) To evaluate current strengths and weaknesses of the community-based primary animal healthcare system in Turkana; 3) To evaluate [...]
English
Production system: Large Ruminants, Small Ruminants, Camel/ Camelids
Global Review of Good Agricultural Extension and Advisory Service Practices
Technical background material
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Burton E. Swanson
Global -
English
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Farmer Field Schools in traditional societies: from technical to social issues
Case study
2008 - LEISA Magazine - Hans Feijen
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