Number of documents: 43
Farmers' Life School manual
Training material
2004 - United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Education - Ou Chhaya, Jacques du Guerny, Richard Geeves, Masaya Kato, Lee-Nah Hsu
This manual encourages the agricultural sector, AIDS programmes and NGOs to assist farming communities in their efforts to build their resilience and reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.
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Death in Small Doses: Cambodia’s Pesticides Problems and Solutions
Technical background material
2002 - Environmental Justice Foundation -
Pesticides have played a role in increasing crop yields and food security but, in contrast to modern products marketed in the developed world, many pesticides used in developing countries like Cambodia fail to meet international quality standards. Agriculture, rice production in particular, is of major importance to Cambodian food security [...]
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El cultivo de la Papa en Ecuador
Training material
2002 - INIAP - Estación Experimental Santa Catalina, Centro Internacional de la Papa - Manuel Pumisacho, Stephen Sherwood
El Capítulo 4 describe las principales plagas del país y comparte experiencias sobre su manejo. Incluye una sección sobre los pesticidas más comunes, sus efectos en la salud humana y en la productividad, tanto como el manejo adecuado de los mismos.
Spanish
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
A Development Strategy to Empower Rural Farmers and Prevent HIV
Case study
2002 - UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Project - Jacques du Guerny, Lee-Nah Hsu, Sin Chhitna
In an effort to mainstream HIV resilience building in the agricultural sector, UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Project, in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programme, has pioneered an experiment called the Farmer Life Schools.
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Farmers' Self-Surveillance of Pesticide Poisoning: a 12-months Pilot in Northern Vietnam
Case study
2002 - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health - Helen H Murphy, Nguyen Phung Hoan, Patricia Matteson, Alma Linda C Morales Abubakar
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Farmer Self-Surveillance of Pesticide Poisoning Episodes
Case study
2001 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report on one month pilot that covers pesticide poisoning and proposes a self-surveillance initiative to prevent it.
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A farmer self-surveillance system of pesticide poisoning
Training material
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Helen Murphy
Reliable data on the incidence of pesticide poisoning is rare in most countries. At best, it is an underestimate because the source of the surveillance data from which these figures are derived is health facilities. These figures represent only a small fraction of pesticide poisoning for a number of reasons. [...]
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Claim no easy victories: Evaluating the Pesticide Industry's Global Safe Use Campaign
Case study
2000 - World Development - Gerd Walter-Echols, Harry van der Wulp
The pesticide industry's Global Safe Use campaign has reportedly produced a
dramatic decline in pesticide-related health and environmental problems in Guatemala. This paper challenges this claim, reanalyzing existing data and further evaluating claims of the campaign's efficacy.
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Health Effects of Pesticide use among Indonesian Women Farmers. Part II: Reproductive Health outcomes
Case study
2000 - Journal of Agromedicine - Helen Murphy, Arik Sanusi, Russ Dilts, S. Yuliantiningsih, N. Hirschhorn, M. Djajadisastra
A study conducted on female spray operators and a non operators to assess the reproductive impacts of pesticide use.
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Health Effects of Pesticide use among Indonesian Women Farmers. Part I: Exposure and Acute Health Effects
Case study
1999 - Journal of Agromedicine - Helen H. Murphy FNP, MHS , Arik Sanusi , Russell Dilts EdD , Sri Yuliatingsih , Marlinda Djajadisastra, Norbert Hirschhorn MD
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