Number of documents: 72
Our experiences with modified Farmer Field Schools in dryland areas
Étude de cas
2007 - LEISA Magazine - Arun Balamatti and Rajendra Hegde
Anglais
Production system: Fruits et noix
Role of Farmer Field Schools on sugarcane productivity in Malakand, Pakistan
Étude d'impact
2007 - Department of Extension Education and Communication NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar - Pakistan - MUBASHIR HABIB, M. ZAFARULLAH KHAN, MAHMOOD IQBAL, KHALID NAWAB & SHAHID ALI
Farmer field schools (FFS) are always aimed to help farmers to discover and learn about field ecology and integrated crop management. A study for sugarcane crop was conducted in 4 FFS villages namely Zoormandai, Baghicha, Sarogai and Haji Gulzada Kalay of Malakand Agency during 2004-05. From each FFS, 10 farmers [...]
Anglais
Production system: Cultures saccharifères
Preparing farmer groups to engage successfully with markets - A field guide for five key skill sets
Matériel de formation
2007 - CRS and RII-CIAT Agroenterprise Study Tour Group -
The field guide aims to provide pointers for program managers and field staff on how to foster several skill sets crucial for preparing groups of poor farmers who are at a very early stage of engaging in markets and who aspire to successful agroenterprise development.
Anglais
Production system:
Agricultural extension in Africa and Asia
Documents techniques de référence
2007 - World AgInfo Project - Carl K. Eicher
The purpose of this review is to summarize the literature on the role of agricultural extension systems in helping smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia increase agriculture production and their livelihoods.
Near East and North Africa, West Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, South-East Asia, Global -
Anglais
Production system:
Weaver ants help farmers to capture organic markets
Étude d'impact
2007 - Pesticides News - Paul Van Mele and Jean-François Vayssières
Weaver ants are predatory insects which kill key pests of many tree crops effectively decreasing the need to use pesticides. Paul Van Mele and Jean-François Vayssières describe how these fascinating insects have been husbanded effectively in Asia to manage pests of citrus and cashew. Their use has recently been extended [...]
Anglais
Production system: Fruits et noix, Insectes
Environment-friendly cotton production through implementing Integrated Pest Management approach
Étude d'impact
2007 - The Pakistan Development Review - Muhammad Azeem Khan, M. Iqbal, and Iftikhar Ahmad
Tremendous increases in pesticide use in cotton growing areas have severely
affected the health of peoples and degraded environment. Farmer Field School (FFS) based IPM implemented in the world to reduce dependence on pesticides and promote environmentally safe plant protection practices. An FFS-led Integrated Pest Management (IMP) model implemented in Pakistan [...]
Anglais
Production system: Culture, Autres
Farmer Field School for Potato Integrated Pest Management - A Facilitator’s Field Guide
Matériel de formation
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Sri Wahyuning, Warsito Tantowijoyo, Elske van de Fliert
This guide is meant as a reference for IPM FFS facilitators. It describes
exercises for the farmer field school learning process relating to sustainable
potato cultivation. This learning process begins with preparing fields for planting
and goes on right up to marketing harvest produce. These experiential learning
exercises are intended to empower farmers to [...]
Anglais
Production system: Racines et tubercules
An Ecological Guide to Potato Integrated Crop Management
Matériel de formation
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Potato Center (CIP-ESEAP Region) - Warsito Tantowijoyo (CIP) and Elske van de Fliert (FAO)
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, [...]
Anglais
Production system: Racines et tubercules
The Farmer Field School (FFS): a method for enhancing the role of rural communities in malaria control?
Étude de cas
2006 - Malaria Journal - Henk van den Berg and Bart GJ Knols
This text focuses on the role that FFS can play in Malaria control by farmers in the fields. It presents the Integrated Pest and Vector Management (IPVM) developed in Sri Lanka.
Anglais
Production system: Insectes
Describing and Measuring Ethno-Entomological Knowledge of Rice Pests: Tradition and Change Among Asian Rice Farmers
Documents techniques de référence
2006 - Environment, Development and Sustainability - Lisa Leimar Price, Astrid Björnsen Gurung
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 [...]
Anglais
Production system: Insectes