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Eight researchers from Ghana and Benin, with different backgrounds but all co-operating within the Convergence of Sciences project, conducted diagnostic studies as a first step of their research aimed at developing technologies together with resource-poor farmers. The purpose of including diagnostic studies was to increase the likelihood that the resulting [...]

Manual con información validada en Perú y Bolivia sobre la marchitez bacteriana de la papa (MB). Esta guía intenta ser una herramienta flexible para ser usada como recurso para facilitadores de ECAs o de CIALs, o para profesionales de campo que requieran capacitar a agricultores o experimentar con ellos de [...]

The article is an introduction to a series of articles about diagnostic studies carried out by eight PhD students in Ghana and Benin. These studies form a prelude to their experimental action research with groups of farmers to develop technologies that work in local conditions and are acceptable to farmers. A [...]

Economic evaluation of the Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) in the Cajamarca Department (Peru) was undertaken to help determine whether agricultural extension via FFSs can contribute to poverty alleviation. Farmer Field Schools involving a number of important crops have already been evaluated at other sites around the world. These studies reported [...]

Agricultural extension systems in sub-Saharan Africa are increasingly using participatory approaches to improve technology adoption by smallholder farmers. This approach has been successful particularly in low-rainfall areas, where adoption is traditionally slow. Crop productivity, farm incomes and food security have improved as a result. ICRISAT worked with Zimbabwe’s Department of [...]

This publication examines five cases of farmer field research in Indonesia.

Fisheries and aquaculture integrating Food security field schools (FSFS) in Kenya.

The broad objective of the local chicken FFS is to improve income and household food security in the smallholders farming system.