Number of documents: 561
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
Getting started! Running a Junior Farmer field and Life school
Training material
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Global -
English
Production system:
Environment-friendly cotton production through implementing Integrated Pest Management approach
Impact assessment
2007 - The Pakistan Development Review - Muhammad Azeem Khan, M. Iqbal, and Iftikhar Ahmad
Tremendous increases in pesticide use in cotton growing areas have severely
affected the health of peoples and degraded environment. Farmer Field School (FFS) based IPM implemented in the world to reduce dependence on pesticides and promote environmentally safe plant protection practices. An FFS-led Integrated Pest Management (IMP) model implemented in Pakistan [...]
English
Production system: Crops, Others
Report of the International Workshop on Environmental Impact Quotient (EIQ)
Advocacy and policy
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
The Environmental Impact Quotient, EIQ, is one of numerous pesticide risk indicator models developed to rate potential hazardous impacts on human health and the environment of different pesticide use regimes. The EIQ takes into account toxicity information on the inherent potential of the active ingredient as well as actual application [...]
English
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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:
Thailand DoAE - FAO vegetables IPM. Regional Training on Biological Control.
Other
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Areepan Upanisakorn, Damien Cupitt, Lim Guan Soon,Tattanakorn Moekchantuk
The Regional Training on Biological Control (RTBC), co-organized by Thailand DoAE and the FAO Vegetable IPM Programme, was held in Khon Kaen from 9-20 July 2007. Twenty six participants from nine countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam) participated.The activities included (i) country presentations, (ii) [...]
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
Practice makes perfect - participatory innovation in soil fertility management to improve rural livelihoods in East Africa
Technical background material
2007 - Wageningen University - Andre de Jager
This article focuses on the context of the Millenium development goals (MDG) and improving and maintaining soil fertility in Africa.
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
Reducing pesticide exposure and associated neurotoxic burden in an Ecuadorian small farm population
Impact assessment
2007 - International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health - Cole, D.C., S. Sherwood, M. Paredes, L. Helena Sanin, C. Crissman, P. Espinosa and F. Munoz
The contribution of community-based interventions, including farmer field schools (FFSs) in integrated pest management (IPM), to reducing pesticide exposures and associated neurotoxic burden among smallfarm families in Ecuador was assessed in three Andean farming communities in a co-design of targeted action–research. Baseline questionnaire surveys elicited pesticide-related knowledge, practices, and exposure [...]
English
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Workshop on Pesticide Risk Impact Assessment
Impact assessment
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
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 [...]
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