Number of documents: 107
Insect Pest Management in Tropical Asian irrigated Rice
Étude de cas
2000 - Annual Review of Entomology - P. C. Matteson
This article is a review of the implementation of Rice IPM in Tropical Asia,
Anglais
Production system: Céréales
Farmer field schools and local agricultural research committees: complementary platforms for integrated decision-making in sustainable agriculture
Documents techniques de référence
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Ann R. Braun, Graham Thiele and María Fernández
Farmer field schools (FFS) and local agricultural research committees (CIALs) are participatory platforms for improving decision-making capacity and stimulating local innovation for sustainable agriculture. CIALs are a permanent agricultural research service staffed by a team of four or more volunteer farmers elected by the community. The committees create a link [...]
Global -
Anglais
Production system:
Reconceptualizing Participation for Sustainable Rural Development towards a Negotiation Approach
Autres
2000 - Development and Change - Cees Leeuwis
In many popular intervention methodologies aimed at stimulating sustainable rural development (in the widest possible sense) the idea of ‘participation’ is a leading principle. This article will demonstrate that the process in which actors are supposed to participate is often thought of as being a process of planning, decision‐making and/or [...]
Global -
Anglais
Production system:
Science and Farmers: IPM by farmers
Étude de cas
1999 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Programme for Community IPM in Asia - Peter A. C. Ooi
Anglais
Production system:
The ecological knowledge system
Documents techniques de référence
1998 - Cambridge University Press - N. Roling, J. Jiggins
Ecologically sound agriculture is not just a question of changing farm practices. It also requires a transformation of a coherent system of learning, its facilitation, institutions and policies. The paper describes the transformation involved on the basis of some country experiences.
Europe, South-East Asia, Oceania, Global - Australia, Germany, Indonesia, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
Anglais
Production system:
Understanding natural enemies; a review of training and information in the practical use of biological control
Documents techniques de référence
1998 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Stephanie Williamson
The limitations of conventional methods of training and information provision on natural enemies are discussed. Farmer and popular understanding and perceptions about natural enemies are described. Lessons drawn and limitations encountered in traditional research and extension ‘top-down’ educational activities are examined and some of the more promising approaches are described. [...]
Anglais
Production system: Céréales, Légumes et melons, Stimulants et épices
Women farmers and IPM Farmer Field Schools in Vietnam
Documents techniques de référence
1997 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Nguyen Nhat Tuyen
The article discusses the role of women in agriculture in Vietnam and focuses on the participation of women farmers in the IPM Farmer Field School (FFS). The article is based on the findings of a study " Women and IPM in Vietnam" carried out in 1994 by the Hanoi based [...]
Anglais
Production system: Céréales