Plataforma Global de las Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores
Number of documents: 108

Push-pull curriculum for Farmer Field Schools

Material de capacitación

2007 - International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) - International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
The purpose of this curriculum is to guide farmers in learning the principles and practices of the Push-pull technology so that they can apply them on their farms. Push-pull is a knowledge-intensive technology, and there is a need to have a curriculum to guide the process of acquiring knowledge and [...]
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Influence of Farmer Field School Extension Approach on Smallholders’ Knowledge and Skills of Dairy Management Technologies in Molo division, Nakuru District of Kenya

Documentos técnicos de referencia

2007 - Egerton University - John Abuga Makori
Implementation of Farmer Field School (FFS) extension approach in disseminating knowledge and skills on management technologies for crop production, crop pests, soil and water conservation (CPSWC) has had proven successes. To replicate its successes, FFS was extended to smallholder dairy production as an alternative to the conventional extension approaches (NFFS) [...]
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Production system: Ganadería, Grandes rumiantes

Investing in farmers—the impacts of Farmer Field Schools in relation to Integrated Pest Management - A reply

Estudio de impacto

2007 - Wageningen University - Henk Van Den Berg and Janice Jiggins
Public policy in developing countries has failed to invest in educating farmers on how to deal with variable agro-ecosystems and a changing world. Here we present an assessment of a participatory training approach in changing crop protection by farmers from chemically dependent, to more sustainable practices in line with the [...]
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Fertile ground? Soil fertility management and the African smallholder

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2007 - Wageningen University - Michael Misiko
The focus in this thesis is to form a view of how well soil fertility research performs within the ever shifting smallholder contexts. This study examined application of agroecological knowledge for soil fertility management by smallholder farmers, with the view to enhancing the utility of research among resource-deprived farmers of western Kenya. [...]
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Practice makes perfect - participatory innovation in soil fertility management to improve rural livelihoods in East Africa

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2007 - Wageningen University - Andre de Jager
This article focuses on the context of the Millenium development goals (MDG) and improving and maintaining soil fertility in Africa.
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Sharing seed and knowledge: farmer to farmer dissemination of agroforestry technologies in western Kenya

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2006 - Agroforestry Systems - Evelyne Kiptot, Steven Franzel, Paul Hebinck, Paul Richards
This study was undertaken to identify farm and farmer characteristics that may influence dissemination of seed and knowledge of improved fallows and biomass transfer, to whom, how and what is disseminated. This was done by carrying out a formal and informal survey involving a random sample of 120 farmers from [...]
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Diffusion of information among small-scale farmers in Senegal: the concept of Farmer Field Schools (FFS)

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2006 - Research Committee on Development Economics (AEL) - Pemsl, Diemuth E.; Waibel, Hermann; Witt, Rudolf
Recent research on the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach in agriculture in developing countries has raised some doubts on the economic impacts of this concept and especially the knowledge diffusion effects from trained to non-trained farmers. Based on a study in Senegal this paper hypothesizes that the question of the [...]
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The emergence of Farmer Field Schools networks in Eastern Africa

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2006 - International Food Policy Research Institute - James Okoth, Arnoud Braun, Robert Delve, Habakkuk Khamaala, Godrick Khisa, and Julianus Thomas
The first Farmer Field School (FFS) Networks emerged in Western Kenya during 2000 as a result of exchange visits and communication between farmers, facilitators, trainers and project staff. Similar networks have subsequently emerged elsewhere in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. These FFS Networks were formed by farmers who graduated from an [...]
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Describing and Measuring Ethno-Entomological Knowledge of Rice Pests: Tradition and Change Among Asian Rice Farmers

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2006 - Environment, Development and Sustainability - Lisa Leimar Price, Astrid Björnsen Gurung
The paper presents a methodology that guided several ethnoentomological research projects and goes on to examine and compare the results from two independent research locations in Asia. The first location is in the Philippines, a Green Revolution area that has been heavily impacted by extension messages and insecticide use. The [...]
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Production system: Insectos