Number of documents: 562
Claim no easy victories: Evaluating the Pesticide Industry's Global Safe Use Campaign
Case study
2000 - World Development - Gerd Walter-Echols, Harry van der Wulp
The pesticide industry's Global Safe Use campaign has reportedly produced a
dramatic decline in pesticide-related health and environmental problems in Guatemala. This paper challenges this claim, reanalyzing existing data and further evaluating claims of the campaign's efficacy.
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Farmer field schools and local agricultural research committees: complementary platforms for integrated decision-making in sustainable agriculture
Technical background material
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Ann R. Braun, Graham Thiele and María Fernández
Farmer field schools (FFS) and local agricultural research committees (CIALs) are participatory platforms for improving decision-making capacity and stimulating local innovation for sustainable agriculture. CIALs are a permanent agricultural research service staffed by a team of four or more volunteer farmers elected by the community. The committees create a link [...]
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Reconceptualizing Participation for Sustainable Rural Development towards a Negotiation Approach
Other
2000 - Development and Change - Cees Leeuwis
In many popular intervention methodologies aimed at stimulating sustainable rural development (in the widest possible sense) the idea of ‘participation’ is a leading principle. This article will demonstrate that the process in which actors are supposed to participate is often thought of as being a process of planning, decision‐making and/or [...]
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Health Effects of Pesticide use among Indonesian Women Farmers. Part II: Reproductive Health outcomes
Case study
2000 - Journal of Agromedicine - Helen Murphy, Arik Sanusi, Russ Dilts, S. Yuliantiningsih, N. Hirschhorn, M. Djajadisastra
A study conducted on female spray operators and a non operators to assess the reproductive impacts of pesticide use.
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A Manual to Facilitate Participatory Planning Activities to Empower Community IPM
Training material
1999 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Mufid A. Busyairi
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Report of the Integrated Pest Management in Rice - Training of Trainers and Farmers’ Field School
Training material
1999 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Cesar Galvan and Soehardi
English
Production system: Cereals
Science and Farmers: IPM by farmers
Case study
1999 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Programme for Community IPM in Asia - Peter A. C. Ooi
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A Village Planning Meeting, Yen Phuong Village, Vietnam
Case study
1999 - The Vietnam National IPM Programme - The Vietnam National IPM Programme
Document describing a village planning meeting in Vietnam.
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Interaction between Scientists and Nonscientists in Community-based Watershed Management: Emergence of the Concept of Stream Naturalization
Other
1999 - Environmental Management - Bruce L Rhoads, David Wilson, Michael Urban, Edwin E Herricks
The authors' personal experience in watershed planning and decision making in the agricultural Midwest is described to illustrate how: (1) formalization of the process of community-based management is not sufficient to guarantee that local people will meaningfully consider scientific information and opinion when making decisions about watersheds, and (2) genuine [...]
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Health Effects of Pesticide use among Indonesian Women Farmers. Part I: Exposure and Acute Health Effects
Case study
1999 - Journal of Agromedicine - Helen H. Murphy FNP, MHS , Arik Sanusi , Russell Dilts EdD , Sri Yuliatingsih , Marlinda Djajadisastra, Norbert Hirschhorn MD
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