Number of documents: 42
The Impact of Training on Technology Adoption and Productivity of Rice Farming in Tanzania: Is Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Effective?
Étude d'impact
2015 - JICA Research Institute - Yuko Nakano, Takuji W. Tsusaka, Takeshi Aida, and Valerien O. Pede
An Empirical Analysis of Expanding Rice Production in Sub-Sahara Africa.
How far can new technologies taught to a small number of selected farmers diffuse to other farmers in a village? In order to answer this question, this paper investigates the impact of JICA training on the adoption of rice cultivation technologies [...]
Anglais
Production system: Culture, Céréales
Community-Based Adaptation in practice: a Global Overview of CARE international’s practice of Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to Climate Change
Documents techniques de référence
2014 - CARE International - Sally King
The purpose of this paper is to document CARE’s current practice of Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to climate change and how, increasingly, elements of the approach are evolving and being integrated into other development sectors. This synthesis of CBA project examples informs an ongoing process to update our various tools and [...]
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Anglais
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The Effects of Integrated Pest Management Techniques Farmer Field Schools on Groundnut Productivity: Evidence from Ghana
Étude d'impact
2014 - Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture - Eric Carlberg, Genti Kostandini, Awere Dankyi
This study examines the impact of Integrated Pest Management-Farmer Field School (IPM-FFS) programs on groundnut productivity in Ghana. The program is conducted in the groundnut growing regions of Ghana with the goal to improve groundnut agriculture through the dissemination of information and technology to the producers. We use household data [...]
Anglais
Production system: Cultures oléagineuses
Pastoralist Field Schools - training of Facilitators Manual
Matériel de formation
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Godrick Khisa, Winnie Nalyongo, Aresawum Mengesha, Solomon Nega, Deborah Duveskog, Karine Garnier, Paul Mutungi, Angela Kimani, James Okoth
The Pastoralist Field School (PFS) approach is an adaptation of the innovative, participatory and interactive learning approach; Farmer Field Schools (FFS). this manual will assist the PFS and Agropastoral Field Schools (APFS) community in expanding the approach in a harmonised manner with attention to quality and mainstreaming [...]
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Anglais
Production system: Élevage, Gros ruminants
Science Field Shops to reduce climate vulnerabilities: an inter- and trans-disciplinary educational commitment
Documents techniques de référence
2013 - University of Nebraska Press - Yunita T. Winarto, Kees Stigter
In addition to an always valuable inter-disciplinary approach in problem solving in agricultural production, a trans-disciplinary collaboration between farmers on the one hand and scholars and scientists on the other is beneficial for both parties as they reach across the voids between their very different realms and idioms. We have [...]
Anglais
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Learning in the social wild: Farmers Field School and the politics of agricultural science and development in Ecuador
Étude de cas
2013 - Adaptive Collaborative Approaches in Natural Resource Governance - Stephen Sherwood, Marc Schut and Cees Leeuwis
Anglais
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Sharing Ideas between Cultures with Videos
Autres
2011 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability - Jeffery Bentley, Paul Van Mele
Civil servants, agricultural researchers, extension people and media experts often think that videos for farmers need to be filmed locally, so that the audience identifies with the actors. But this is not so. Farmers in southwestern and northern Nigeria reacted to videos on rice seed health (made in Bangladesh), on [...]
Anglais
Production system: Céréales
Diseño y aplicación de la metodologia ECA con enfoque de género y lengua en el departamento de Potosí - Bolivia (ECAMUQ)
Étude de cas
2011 - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid - Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos - Marina Aldapi Herrera
Investigación doctoral que tiene el propósito de generar el diseno y la aplicación de la metodología de las Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores (ECA) con enfoque de género y lengua (ECAMUQ).
Espagnol
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Fish Farmer Field School: Towards healthier milkfish / shrimp polyculture and fish farmer empowerment in South Sulawesi
Étude de cas
2011 - Aquaculture Asia - Ben Brown and Ratna Fadillah
Sustainable aquaculture in Indonesia through a Fish Farmer Field School.
Anglais
Production system: Aquaculture, Pêche
Farm Business School Manual, Training of Farmers' Programme South Asia.
Matériel de formation
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The Farm Business School consists of a package of training materials intended to inform policy makers, train FBS facilitators and train farmers. The Training of Facilitators Programme is classroom-based and of a short 15 day duration. The Training of Farmers Programme consists of a series of meetings that take place [...]
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