Number of documents: 108
Building social capital and promoting participatory development of agricultural innovations through farmer field schools: The Greek experience
Impact assessment
2014 - Harper Adams - Chrysanthi Charatsari , Alex Koutsouris , Evagelos D. Lioutas , and Apostolos Kalivas
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Management of Beet Armyworm
Audiovisual material
2013 - Rural Agricultural Development Authority Videos -
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Addressing Planthopper Threats to Asian Rice Farming and Food Security: Fixing Insecticide Misuse
Case study
2013 - ADB Sustainable Development Working Paper Series - Kong Luen Heong with Larry Wong and Joy Hasmin De los Reyes
English
Production system: Cereals
Impact of Farmers' Field School Approach on knowledge, attitude and adoption of rice producers toward biological control: the case of Babol township, Iran
Case study
2013 - World Applied Sciences Journal - Hadi Moumeni-Helali and Amir Ahmadpour
English
Production system: Crops, Cereals
Filling the Learning Gap in Program Implementation using Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation lessons from Farmer Field Schools in Zanzibar
Case study
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - Elias Zerfu, Sindu W. Kebede
This study is motivated by the idea that even though participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is widely accepted as a tool to manage development programs to be effective, its application is widely constrained by its high start-up resource requirements in terms of both finance and time. However, this
paper argues that [...]
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Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Social Wellbeing of Farming Community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Impact assessment
2013 - The Journal of Animal & Plant Sciences - S. Muhammad, K. M. Chaudhry, A. Khatam and I. Ashraf
The paper focuses on the impact of farmer field schools (FFS) on social wellbeing of farming community. For this purpose, six districts from the central region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Mardan, Swabi and Kohat were selected. Data were collected on various aspects of social wellbeing of farming [...]
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Farmer Field Schools as a Springboard for Enhanced Uptake of New Agricultural Technologies. Lessons for Tanzania
Case study
2013 - Tanzania Journal of Agricultural Sciences - Z. S. K. Mvena, A. Z. Mattee, R. M. Wambura, D. L. Mwaseba, E. A. Lazaro, E. D. Kiranga and D. M. Kilave
The latest approach in enhancing the uptake of agricultural technologies is through the Farmer Field Schools that have only a short history in Tanzania.The paper reviews FFS and gives a brief presentation of the history of FFS in Tanzania.
The paper then makes an assessment of the effectiveness of the approach [...]
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Impact of FFS on Farmer's Adoption of IPM options for onion: a Case Study from Gezira state, Sudan
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2013 - World Journal of Agricultural Sciences - Ahmed M. Abdel Rahman and Mohamed E. Hamid
The objective of this study was to determine the impact of Farmer Field Schools on farmer's adoption of IPM options for onion in the Gezira State. Field surveys were used to collect data from three Farmer Field Schools in the Gezira State in the 2010/2011 growing season. All FFS participants [...]
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
Las escuelas de campo del MAP-CATIE - práctica y lecciones aprendidas en la gestión del conocimiento y la creación de capacidades locales para el desarrollo rural sostenible
Technical background material
2012 - Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) - Isabel A. Gutiérrez-Montes, Patricia Bartol de Imbach, Felicia Ramírez, Julio López Payes, Eduardo Say, Karen Banegas
Este estudio proporciona evidencias claras acerca de las bondades de las
ECAS y de los impactos que pueden lograrse a partir de su uso apropiado, lo cual
confirma y refuerza la importancia de trabajar fuertemente en la promoción y uso
de las mismas como herramienta poderosa para la gestión del conocimiento en el
marco [...]
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InPaC-S: Participatory knowledge Integration of Indicators of Soil Quality - Methodological Guide
Training material
2012 - World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), International Center for Tropical Agriculture - Barrios, E., R.J. Delve, M. Bekunda, J. Mowo, J. Agunda, J. Ramisch, M.T. Trejo and R.J. Thomas
The aim of the methodological guide is to constitute an initial step in the empowerment of local communities to develop a local soil quality monitoring and decision-making system for better management of soil resources. This approach uses consensus building to develop practical solutions to soil management constraints identified, as well [...]
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