Number of documents: 540
Evaluating Cotton Integrated Pest Management (IPM) - Farmer Field School Outcomes using the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach in India
Documents clés sur les CEP
2007 - Cambridge University Press - Francesca Mancini, Ariena van Bruggen and Janice Jiggins
Anglais
Production system: Culture
Cultural Encounters: Learning from Cross-Disciplinary Science and Development Practice over Ecosystem Health
Documents techniques de référence
2007 - Development in Practice - Stephen Sherwood, Donald Cole, Charles Crissman
Overcoming challenges to ecosystem health calls for breaking down disciplinary and professional barriers. Through reflection on a research and development project to address pesticide-related concerns in northern Ecuador, this article presents challenges encountered and accommodations made, ranging from staff recruitment, through baseline assessments and community education activities, to mobilising for [...]
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Changing the strategies of Farmer Field Schools in Bangladesh
Étude de cas
2007 - LEISA Magazine - Hein Bijlmakers and Muhammad Ashraful Islam
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Production system: Céréales
Comparing Farmer Field Schools, community workshops, and radio: teaching Bolivian farmers about bacterial wilt of potato
Étude d'impact
2007 - Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education - Bentley, J.W.; Barea, O.; Priou, S.; Equise, H.; Thiele, G
Bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum) is a serious disease of potato. It can be managed with cultural practices, but only if farmers understand the technologies, and the reasons behind them. Face-to-face extension methods, like farmer field school (FFS), can teach these messages to smallholders, but other methods may also be useful. [...]
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Production system: Racines et tubercules
Our experiences with modified Farmer Field Schools in dryland areas
Étude de cas
2007 - LEISA Magazine - Arun Balamatti and Rajendra Hegde
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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 [...]
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Production system: Cultures saccharifères
Lessons for Farmer-Oriented Research: Experiences from a West African Soil Fertility Management Project
Documents techniques de référence
2007 - Agriculture and Human Values - E. Suzanne Nederlof, Constant Dangbegnon
Our objective in this study is to determine why resource-poor farmers in Togo (declined to) adopt recommended practices that were promoted through a multi-organizational project on soil fertility management. We examine the processes and outcomes related to the adoption process. The project was undertaken in three villages in the Central [...]
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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.
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The Clustering Approach to Agroenterprise Development for Small Farmers: The CRS-Philippines Experience. A Guidebook for Facilitators.
Matériel de formation
2007 - Catholic Relief Services - Jessan S. Catre, Floro T. Israel, Lionel D. Mendoza, Joan Cua Uy, Dinah Q. Tabbada, Alexander U. Tabbada
This guidebook has been designed for Field Facilitators who have adequate field experience in community development work. The production of this guidebook was also made in response to the request of other development organizations to assist them on how to adopt, adapt and implement Agroenterprise Development in linking small farmers [...]
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Reducing vector-borne disease by empowering farmers in integrated vector management
Documents techniques de référence
2007 - Bulletin of the World Health Organization - Henk van den Berg, Alexander von Hildebrand, Vaithilingam Ragunathan & Pradeep K Das
Malaria and other vector-borne diseases are a major public health problem in WHO’s South-East Asia Region. In the wake of increasing resistance to both drugs and pesticides, there is a need to establish integrated vector management strategies that are less reliant on chemical methods of disease control. These strategies should [...]
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