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Growing Field Schools: Global to Local Adaptations of Participatory Programs at UBC Botanical Garden
Event 07 September 2018
Growing Field Schools: Global to Local Adaptations of Participatory Programs at UBC Botanical Garden
In 2007, a lunch and learn session on FAO Farmer Field Schools inspired a young researcher to consider new ways of supporting participatory and people-centred programming for...
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Event 17 July 2018 - 20 July 2018
With support from FAO, the Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) programme in Andhra Pradesh is strengthening its use of non-formal education approaches and their application to ZBNF in particular on soils, initially in the Guntur district.
FAO and its partners have...
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News 29 June 2018
Starting in the 1990’s, the International Potato Center (CIP)’s integrated pest management team for potato late blight (IPM-LB) realized the importance of addressing the management of late blight, a complex potato disease, by combining crop protection and management sciences, with...
Eastern Africa, South America, South Asia, East Asia Bangladesh, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Peru, Uganda
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
News 29 May 2018
FAO has published a new Blue Growth blog post online, entitled Strengthening integrated aquatic plant and animal farming in the rice fields of Lao PDR.
http://www.fao.org/blogs/blue-growth-blog/strengthening-integrated-aquatic-plant-and-animal-farming-in-the-rice-fields-of-lao-pdr/en/
The innovative “Blue Growth” field work done in Lao PDR was supported within context of FAO’s...
Production system: Aquaculture
News 28 May 2018 - 28 May 2018
In managing the FAW outbreak, pesticides can be harmful, particularly to the environment as they affect non-targeted organisms, like bees. Though often overlooked, there are other, more natural approaches which have proven effective, such as push-pull and other intercropping technologies,...
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