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

The Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) sector of CARE is exploring new ways to enhance women's participation and to empower them through aquaculture programs. Farmer field schools, participatory monitoring and evaluation, children's participation initiatives, family approaches and action research are some of the approaches that have been found to be effective [...]

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 [...]

Document describing a village planning meeting in Vietnam.

To many scientists and researchers, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is just about pests . Yet this overlooks the important role IPM can play in human resource development. Whilst insect pests are naturally important entry points, these open the door to a more important aspect of IPM, that of human resource [...]

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 [...]

Emerging evidence for the success on farms of resource-conserving technologies and practices must not tempt agricultural professionals into making prescriptions about what constitutes sustainable agriculture. Sustainability is a complex and contested concept, and so precise definitions are impossible. The dominant scientific paradigm of positivism has served us well over three [...]