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Programa Nacional de raíces y tuberculos rubro papa.

Este documento se divide en tres grandes áreas: La primera porte contiene temas sobre principios, diseño, preparación, implementación, evaluación y seguimiento de ECAs. Como sabemos, para implementar una ECA el facilitador debe pasar primero por un proceso de capacitación de por lo menos tres meses, en ese sentido, esta parte será [...]

Debido a que los agricultores desconocen muchas interacciones medioambientales y existe confusión en aspectos biológicos, fue necesario desarrollar temas prácticos para enseñar los principios biofísicos, diferenciar enfermedades, ciclos biológicos, diagnosis y la interacción entre patógeno, planta y medio ambiente. La estructura inicial de la guía del Perú estaba hecha en [...]

The aim of this module is to assist farmers to adopt improved tillage systems and implements, or to modify their existing systems and implements, so as to be better adapted to the agroecological and socio-economic environment, cropping and farming systems.

The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 briefly describes the farmer field school extension approach, while Section 3 discusses the potential of formal and informal farmer-led diffusion mechanisms to enhance the fiscal sustainability of this approach. Sections 4 and 5 present evidence on the fiscal sustainability issue from the [...]

The week long Training of Trainers (TOT) course on Farmer Field Schools (FFS) held at CMRT, Egerton University for sixty five researchers, extensionists and farmers was made possible through the sponsorship of the Rockefeller Foundation (RF), that has supported Soil Management Project (SMP) and Legume Research Network Project (LRNP) of [...]

This manual is meant for those involved in facilitating farmer studies to farmer field school graduates. The tools and principles provided here improve planning and analysis of field studies and prepare trainers to facilitate scientific method to farmers. The manual is for study by individual trainers or for discussion at [...]

The Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) sector of CARE is exploring new ways to enhance women's participation and to empower them through aquaculture programs. Farmer field schools, participatory monitoring and evaluation, children's participation initiatives, family approaches and action research are some of the approaches that have been found to be effective [...]

The article presents and compares experiences in working with farmers to manage rice blast and potato late blight. In these cases, farmer groups learned about disease processes and management techniques, and tested promising crop varieties and breeding lines with the support of extension and research organizations

Report on one month pilot that covers pesticide poisoning and proposes a self-surveillance initiative to prevent it.