Number of documents: 64
Review of Agricultural Extension in India - Are farmers’ information needs being met?
Technical background material
2010 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - Claire J. Glendenning, Suresh Babu, Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere
This paper aims to ascertain why farmers are not accessing information and where information gaps exist, despite the variety of extension approaches in India. Using information provision and access as the basis for analysis, the paper reviews some of the major agricultural extension programs in India by considering their ability [...]
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Farmer Field Schools: from nobodys to role models
Advocacy and policy
2010 - Rural Focus 21 - Godrick Simiyu Khisa
The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach was fi rst introduced in Kenya
in 1995 through a project of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) in Western Kenya. Since then, several projects have been successfully
implemented in the country using various different entry points.
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Impact of IPM Extension for Smallholder Farmers in the Tropics
Impact assessment
2009 - Springer Science Netherlands - Jeffery W. Bentley
In recent years, IPM extension came to mean FFS (farmer field school). Most studies of FFS pilot projects suggest that IPM helps farmers to lower costs or to increase yields, although the farmers pass on little of their new knowledge to their neighbours, which limits the cost-effectiveness of FFS. Some [...]
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The role of international agricultural research centres in strengthening rural extension
Case study
2009 - Farmer First Revisited - Paul Van Mele
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Aprender haciendo: reflexiones sobre la implementación de la metodología de capacitación escuela de campo de agricultores para promover la producción sustentable y el consumo de hortalizas sana
Case study
2009 - SEPIA - Rossana Pacheco, Willy Pradel, Marisol Ramos
El siguiente artículo tiene como fin compartir las reflexiones del equipo HortiSana del Centro Internacional de la Papa, respecto a los aprendizajes obtenidos a partir de la implementación de la metodología ECA, para promover la producción sustentable y el consumo de hortalizas sanas en el Valle del Mantaro, de modo [...]
Spanish
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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
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Farmer first revisited : innovation for agricultural research and development
Technical background material
2008 - Journal of Sustainable Agriculture - Ian Scoones, John Thompson, Robert Chambers
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Appraisal of Methods to Evaluate Farmer Field Schools
Impact assessment
2008 - Development in Practice - Francesca Mancini and Janice Jiggins
The 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 [...]
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