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	Guidelines and Reference Material on Integrated Soil and Nutrient Management and Conservation for Farmer Field Schools (FAO, 2000). These guidelines provide a basic conceptual framework and supporting reference material to assist in the development and implementation of effective FFS focused on Integrated Soil and Nutrient Management and Conservation.	English [164 pages, 9.2 MB] Arabic - part 1 [88 pages, 1.5 MB] Arabic - part 2 [22 pages, 1.3 MB] Arabic - part 3 [47 pages, 1.3 MB] Arabic - part 4 [31 pages, 1.4 MB]
	Reference material on the module on Tillage (FAO, 2001). Final Draft. Addition on tillage to the Guidelines and Reference Material on Integrated Soil and Nutrient Management and Conservation for Farmer Field Schools.	Download [34 pages, 274 kB]
	Guidelines for Participatory Diagnosis of Constraints and Opportunities (PDCO) for Soil and Plant Nutrient Management (FAO, 2000). These guidelines cover the use of selected methods and tools of participatory diagnosis of constraints and opportunities at farm household and community levels. They lead to a better understanding of farmers’ constraints for soil and plant nutrient management and promote their participation in finding solutions.	English [98 pages, 2.2 MB] French [102 pages, 3.2 MB]
	Farmer Field School on Integrated Soil Management: Facilitator's manual (Farm Programme, 1998). This facilitator's manual is based on the experience of the FARM programme. The manual was produced to provide farming communities with more technical information particularly in relation to soil management, improved fertilizer use effieciency, increased outputs and control of costs.	Chapter 1-5 [69 pages, 1.0 MB] Chapter 6-9 [70 pages, 402 kB] Reference material [75 pages, 3.6 MB]
	Soil and Water Conservation - with a focus on Water Harvesting and Soil Moisture Retention: a study guide for Farmer Field Schools and Community-based Study Groups (FARMESA, 2003). Version 1.1. This study guide is intended to assist farmers in learning and experimenting on improved soil and water management. The target groups for the study guide are, Farmer Field Schools, village farmer groups and agricultural extension staff. The study guide includes 7 chapters.	Part 1 [29 pages, 591 kB] Part 2 [66 pages, 1.1 MB]
	Sustainable agriculture extension manual for Eastern and Southern Africa (IIRR, 1998). Drawing on the experiences of numerous development and research agencies throughout Eastern and Southern Africa, the manual includes sections on technology development and extension, credit and marketing, land use, gender, soil and water conservation, soil fertility, cropping systems, livestock extension, and livestock technologies.	On-Line Table of Contents
	Managing soil fertility in the tropics; a resource guide for participatory learning and action research. (Defoer, T., and A. Budelman, 2000). This field-tested package includes: 1. A textbook including theory, a model for resource and nutrient flow analysis, an introduction to participatory learning and action research (PLAR), and data handling procedures; 2. Case studies on PLAR and resource flow analysis in practice; 3. Field tools for PLAR presented on laminated cards; 4. A CD Rom: ResourceKIT (software package to use in managing the data from action research) and Detailed Field Tools (electronic version). 5. User guide to the ResourceKIT: detailed field tools for PLAR.	Leaflet Table of Contents (only) Buy On-line
	Methodologies for Decision Making in Natural Resource Management: Identifying and Classifying Local Indicators of Soil Quality (Barrios, E., M. Bekunda, R. Delve, A. Esilaba and J. Mowo, 2001). Eastern Africa Version. CIAT, SWNM, TSBF, AHI. ISBN: 958-694-013-6.	On-line Document
	NUTMON-toolbox (Vlaming, J., H. van den Bosch, M.S. van Wijk, A. de Jager, A. Bannink and H. van Keulen, 2001). The NUTMON-Toolbox provides methods and tools to determine nutrient flows and balances and economic performance indicators for one or more individual farms, providing insight into causes and magnitudes of losses of nutrients from the system and so helping to target interventions.	Download a copy
	Guía Salud de Suelos - Soil Health Guide (Spanish) (Cornell and Zamorano, 2002). This soil health handbook provides applied information about soil health to ‘promotors’ and to literate farmers. It links and synthesizes scientific knowledge from the Cornell soil health group together with local knowledge from many groups in Honduras. The information differs from the normal soil conservation and management literature in that the soil is viewed from the perspective of management of the biota. At present only the Spanish version is available.	Table of Contents Download [162 pages, 1.7 MB in 11 files]

Supporting training materials

	Living Soils: Training Exercises for Integrated Soils Management (Settle, W., 2000). This guide consists of 31 exercises all of which have all been field tested in training sessions in Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia and Bangladesh.	Table of Contents [101 pages, 2.4 Mb in five files]
	Metodos ce Campo - Curso Eco-Suelos (Field Methods - Course Eco-Soils (INIAP, 2002). These training exercises (in Spanish only) were developed by CIP and INIAP in Ecuador for use in a deepening course on soil health for FFS master trainers (extensionists and farmer promoters).	Download [43 pages, 197 kb]
	Land and Water Digital Media Series #22 - Training Modules on Conservation Agriculture (FAO, 2002). The purpose of these training modules is to support the promotion of Conservation Agriculture at community level. The modules, targeted at agricultural technicians, provide practical information about the different principles of Conservation Agriculture. A next version will include a module with exercises for learning-by-doing and will allow rapid consultation of the different modules through interactive menus and cross-reference in the text.	More information
	A prototye handbook for trainers of trainers on Integrated Soil Management: A Phillipine experience (Concepcion, R.N., 19??). FAO / Department of Agriculture, Bureau of soils and water management.	Download [52 pages, 325 kb]

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