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Need for Pesticide Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment in IPM Programmes

There is an increasing demand on IPM projects to examine their economic, environmental, health and social impacts, including their achievements in reducing pesticide related risks. The Environmental Impact Quotient (EIQ) is one of the tools that is being used to measure achievements in pesticide risk reduction. It was developed in [...]

The need to increase agricultural sustainability has induced the government of India to promote the adoption of integrated pest management (IPM). An evaluation of cotton-based conventional and IPM farming systems was conducted in India (2002–2004). The farmers managing the IPM farms had participated in discovery-based ecological training, namely Farmer Field [...]

Public policy in developing countries has failed to invest in educating farmers on how to deal with variable agro-ecosystems and a changing world. Here we present an assessment of a participatory training approach in changing crop protection by farmers from chemically dependent, to more sustainable practices in line with the [...]

This document is a book of recompiled analysis that rely in the same data collected over a period of over four years in five pilot projects on the rise FFS in Thailand. It presents a blend of analytical procedures covering various aspects of impact.

This article focuses on the context of the Millenium development goals (MDG) and improving and maintaining soil fertility in Africa.

Workshop Report Under the project “Pesticide Risk Reduction in South East Asia”, an impact assessment workshop was held in Ho Chi Minh City from 23 to 25 July, 2007. It was attended by 10 participants from China, Cambodia and Vietnam. The participants included independent impact assessment leaders from the Royal University of Agriculture in Phnom [...]

The short article reviews the principles of doing impact evaluations.

This document examines the benefits of planning a FFS with peruvian small coffee producers.

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 [...]