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Workshop Report Under the project “Pesticide Risk Reduction in South East Asia”, an impact assessment workshop was held in Ho Chi Minh City from 23 to 25 July, 2007. It was attended by 10 participants from China, Cambodia and Vietnam. The participants included independent impact assessment leaders from the Royal University of Agriculture in Phnom [...]

The workshop focused on the development of a regional conceptual framework for curriculum development for pesticide risk reduction training. The workshop was also aimed at strengthening capacities of member countries to carry out these activities. The workshop included introductory presentations on risk reduction and the link between impact assessment and curriculum [...]

This Resource Manual on Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) in Rice is part of a series of training and learning instruments developed and published by World Education (INGO) Philippines, Inc. This manual was produced to promote better understanding of the rice ecosystem as well as to teach environmentally-friendly, healthy, [...]

In this handbook we have tried to use language understandable to farmers, purposely keeping material as simple but as thorough as possible. It opens with an explanation about the principles of integrated pest management, then moves on to technical production topics about potatoes. These cover cultivation techniques, the ecology of pests and natural enemies, [...]

A PhD thesis.

The goal of this paper is to show how culture – shared norms and values – is challenged and used to facilitate cooperative behavior within the context of farmer field schools (FFS) in central Luzon, Philippines. The success of the FFS is primarily associated with cultural norms that encourage experiential [...]

The paper presents a methodology that guided several ethnoentomological research projects and goes on to examine and compare the results from two independent research locations in Asia. The first location is in the Philippines, a Green Revolution area that has been heavily impacted by extension messages and insecticide use. The [...]

This paper presents an application of a difference in differences model to measure environmental and economic impacts of Farmer Field School on crop and pest management practices of rice in Thailand. Panel data from 241 farm households were collected three times over a period of four years in five rice-producing [...]

This paper presents an application of a two and three stages difference in differences model to measure environmental and economic impacts of Farmer Field School on crop and pest management practices of rice in Thailand. Panel data from 241 farm households were collected three times over a period of four [...]