Number of documents: 53
Ants as friends: improving your tree crops with weaver ants
Training material
2007 - Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) - Paul Van Mele, Nguyen Thi Thu Cuc
This manual offers you a highly exciting discovery voyage about the life of weaver ants, how you can make best use of them to protect your fruit and other tree crops and hence how to save money. Because the focus is on practical aspects based on
improved insights of underlying ecological [...]
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English
Production system: Insects
Weaver ants help farmers to capture organic markets
Impact assessment
2007 - Pesticides News - Paul Van Mele and Jean-François Vayssières
Weaver ants are predatory insects which kill key pests of many tree crops effectively decreasing the need to use pesticides. Paul Van Mele and Jean-François Vayssières describe how these fascinating insects have been husbanded effectively in Asia to manage pests of citrus and cashew. Their use has recently been extended [...]
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts, Insects
Fertile ground? Soil fertility management and the African smallholder
Technical background material
2007 - Wageningen University - Michael Misiko
The focus in this thesis is to form a view of how well soil fertility research performs
within the ever shifting smallholder contexts. This study examined application of agroecological knowledge for soil fertility management by smallholder farmers, with the view
to enhancing the utility of research among resource-deprived farmers of western Kenya. [...]
English
Production system:
FAO Regional Vegetable Disease Diagnosis, Ecology, and Management Training
Impact assessment
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Marilyn Patricio, Vale Justo, Tattanakorn Moekchantuk, Lowell Black, Prabhat Kumar, Chou Chey Thyrith and Damien Cupitt
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a multifaceted, ecologically-based strategy that relies on close observation and monitoring of a crop before making management decisions. IPM combines a number of techniques to effectively suppress plant diseases and insect pests in an economically and environmentally conscious manner. Utilizing IPM to manage plant diseases [...]
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
Improving soil fertility and farm productivity under intensive crop-dairy smallholdings: experiences from Farmer Field Schools in the highlands of Kiambu district, Central Kenya
Case study
2006 - Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research - D.D. Onduru, A. De Jager, B. Wouters, F.N. Muchena, L. Gachimbi and G.N. Gachini
A study to improve soil fertility and farm productivity under intensive crop-dairy smallholder farming systems was carried out in Kiambu District, central Kenya highlands in the period 2003-2005 using farmer field school approach.
English
Production system: Crops, Livestock, Pastures /Fodder trees, Large Ruminants
Describing and Measuring Ethno-Entomological Knowledge of Rice Pests: Tradition and Change Among Asian Rice Farmers
Technical background material
2006 - Environment, Development and Sustainability - Lisa Leimar Price, Astrid Björnsen Gurung
The paper presents a methodology that guided several ethnoentomological research projects and goes on to examine and compare the results from two independent research locations in Asia. The first location is in the Philippines, a Green Revolution area that has been heavily impacted by extension messages and insecticide use. The [...]
English
Production system: Insects
Ressource Manual on Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) in Vegetables
Training material
2005 - World Education (INGO) Philippines, Inc. - World Education (INGO) Philippines, Inc.
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
Curriculum for Farmers Field School on local chicken production (egg to egg programme)
Training material
2004 - Danida ASP - Khisa S. Godrick
The broad objective of the local chicken FFS is to improve income and household food security in the smallholders farming system.
English
Production system: Poultry
Growing Up in the REAL World
Case study
2004 - LEISA Magazine - Andrew Bartlett and Marut Jatiket
REAL stands for Rural Ecology and Agricultural Livelihoods. REAL Education is an integrated learning process in which school children explore what is happening on local farms, gain an understanding of ecology, and develop critical thinking skills with respect to environmental, health and social problems.
REAL Education is now an international movement, [...]
English
Production system:
Environmental educational for Poor Farmers
Impact assessment
2004 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Peter A. C. Ooi - Gerd Walter-Echols - Dai Weidong - Alma Linda Morales - Abubakar Lim - Guan Soon Palaniswamy - Pachagounder Manzoor - H. Soomro - Cesar Galvan - Francesca Mancini - Rikke Petersen - Kevin Kamp
More than half of the world’s cotton is produced by Asian farmers, the majority of them small landholders with plot sizes of less than one-half hectare. Within Asia, cotton production is diverse and this diversity manifests itself among the countries participating in the FAO-EU Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Programme for [...]
English
Production system: Crops, Others