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The Environmental Impact Quotient, EIQ, is one of numerous pesticide risk indicator models developed to rate potential hazardous impacts on human health and the environment of different pesticide use regimes. The EIQ takes into account toxicity information on the inherent potential of the active ingredient as well as actual application [...]

The contribution of community-based interventions, including farmer field schools (FFSs) in integrated pest management (IPM), to reducing pesticide exposures and associated neurotoxic burden among smallfarm families in Ecuador was assessed in three Andean farming communities in a co-design of targeted action–research. Baseline questionnaire surveys elicited pesticide-related knowledge, practices, and exposure [...]

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, [...]

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The SARD Project Toolkit summarizes frameworks, approaches and tools that can be used to promote sustainability in the management of agricultural and rural development projects and programmes.

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 [...]

We focused on the Socio-Economic Evaluation of Farmer Field School Training on Integrated Pest Management in the humid forest region of Cameroon. The main objective was to assess the impact of training on integrated pest management (IPM) on cocoa farmer field school graduates. The results indicate that shade management, phytosanitary harvest, [...]

This Market Facilitator’s Guide is a product of the experiences and lessons learned while implementing agroenterprise projects in eastern and southern Africa. The Guide is based on a resource-to-consumption framework, which is the central theme of the “enabling rural innovation” (ERI) approach for rural development. This approach seeks to empower [...]

A season-long assessment of acute pesticide poisoning among farmers was conducted in three villages in India. Fifty female cotton growers reported the adverse effects experienced after exposures to pesticides by themselves and by their male relatives (n = 47). The study documented the serious consequences of pesticide use for the [...]