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An initiative to scale up and institutionalise farmer driven study groups in Eastern and Southern Africa, with a particular focus on commercialisation and market access

This paper presents an application of a 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 years in five rice-producing [...]

This Resource Manual on Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) in Rice is part of a series of training and learning instruments developed and published by World Education (INGO) Philippines, Inc. This manual was produced to promote better understanding of the rice ecosystem as well as to teach environmentally-friendly, healthy, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

This guide provides examples of FFS activities as well as basic livestock technical information to help new facilitators implement a livestock FFS.

The short article reviews the principles of doing impact evaluations.

A PhD thesis.

This study was undertaken to identify farm and farmer characteristics that may influence dissemination of seed and knowledge of improved fallows and biomass transfer, to whom, how and what is disseminated. This was done by carrying out a formal and informal survey involving a random sample of 120 farmers from [...]

Recent research on the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach in agriculture in developing countries has raised some doubts on the economic impacts of this concept and especially the knowledge diffusion effects from trained to non-trained farmers. Based on a study in Senegal this paper hypothesizes that the question of the [...]