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The farmer field school (FFS) is a season long training of farmers involving participatory activities, hands-on analysis and decision making. Because it requires significant investments in time, trainers and other facilities, the approach can be an expensive way of diffusing new science-based knowledge and other information to farmers. However, if [...]

The Farmer Field School (FFS) experiential learning and selfhelp development approach has become very successful in Southeast Asia in improving irrigated rice production, even beyond Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for which it was initially designed (see LEISA Magazine Vol 17, No 3, pp 18-20). The approach is now also being used [...]

This article focuses on how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be used for the knowledge intensive approach that characterizes IPM. It analyses the digital divide between Asia and developed countries.

In an effort to mainstream HIV resilience building in the agricultural sector, UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Project, in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programme, has pioneered an experiment called the Farmer Life Schools.

This article presents ten lessons learnt from the implementation of FFS in the Andes, South America.

La presente guía surge como uno de los productos del curso taller "Capacitación de Capacitadores en Manejo Integrado de Plagas: La Metodología de Escuelas de Campo", auspiciado por la Agencia Suiza para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación (COSUDE), a través de la Escuela Agrícola Panamericana "Zamorano" que desarrolla el Programa [...]

Based on a participartory workshop held on the 17th TO 29th SEPTEMBER 2001, MABANGA FTC, BUNGOMA, Kenya

Programa Nacional de raíces y tuberculos rubro papa.

Este documento se divide en tres grandes áreas: La primera porte contiene temas sobre principios, diseño, preparación, implementación, evaluación y seguimiento de ECAs. Como sabemos, para implementar una ECA el facilitador debe pasar primero por un proceso de capacitación de por lo menos tres meses, en ese sentido, esta parte será [...]