Number of documents: 45
Grounding Agricultural Research in Resource-Poor Farmers' Needs: a Comparative Analysis of Diagnostic Studies in Ghana and Benin
Documentos técnicos de referencia
2004 - NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - E.S. Nederlof, R. Tossou, O. Sakyi-Oawson and O.K. Kossou
Eight researchers from Ghana and Benin, with different backgrounds but all co-operating within the Convergence of Sciences project, conducted diagnostic studies as a first step of their research aimed at developing technologies together with resource-poor farmers. The purpose of including diagnostic studies was to increase the likelihood that the resulting [...]
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Linking Science and Farmers' innovative capacity: diagnostic studies from Ghana and Benin
Documentos técnicos de referencia
2004 - NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - N.G. Rolingl, D. Hounkonnou, S.K. Offei, R. Tossou and A. Van Huisa
The article is an introduction to a series of articles about diagnostic studies carried out by eight PhD students in Ghana and Benin. These studies form a prelude to their experimental action research with groups of farmers to develop technologies that work in local conditions and are acceptable to farmers.
A [...]
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Fishery based food security field schools: Bondo district, Lake Victoria, Kenya
Estudio de caso
2004 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Devin M. Bartley, Beatrice Nyandat, Deborah Duveskog
Fisheries and aquaculture integrating Food security field schools (FSFS) in Kenya.
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Production system: Acuicultura, Pesca
Curriculum for Farmers Field School on local chicken production (egg to egg programme)
Material de capacitación
2004 - Danida ASP - Khisa S. Godrick
The broad objective of the local chicken FFS is to improve income and household food security in the smallholders farming system.
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Production system: Aves
Farmers' Life School manual
Material de capacitación
2004 - United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Education - Ou Chhaya, Jacques du Guerny, Richard Geeves, Masaya Kato, Lee-Nah Hsu
This manual encourages the agricultural sector, AIDS programmes and NGOs to assist farming communities in their efforts to build their resilience and reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.
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Field Schools for Kenyan dairy farmers
Estudio de caso
2003 - LEISA Magazine - B. Minjauw, H.G. Muriuki and D. Romney
The document presents the implementation of FFS for dairy farmers in Kenya as a response to endemic diseases, particularly tick-borne diseases (TBD).
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Production system: Ganadería, Grandes rumiantes
Experiencia de ECAs en la enseñanza práctica del MIP en universidades y escuelas agrícolas de Nicaragua, Honduras y El Salvador
Estudio de caso
2003 - LEISA Revista de Agroecología - Orlando Cáceres , Alfredo Rueda , Julio López Montes
Artículo que indaga sobre las ECAs en Centroamérica y el sector educativo superior.
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Farmer field school, farmer life school and farmers club for enriching knowledge and empowering farmers: A case study from Cambodia
Estudio de caso
2003 - United Nations University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoti University, and Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences - Yunita T. Winarto
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Strengthening social capital in agricultural and natural resources innovation systems: community IPM Farmer field schools (FFS) in Nepal
Estudio de caso
2002 - . - Annemarie Westendorp and Stephen Biggs
This paper uses an innovations systems framework to analyze the ways social capital in the overall agricultural and natural resources innovation system in Nepal has increased far beyond what was originally expected in the project proposal.
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Development of Farm Field School methodology for small-holder dairy farmers in Kenya
Material de capacitación
2002 - International Livestock Research Institute - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Kenya - B. Minjauw , H.G. Muriuki, D. Romney
Paper for International FFS Workshop about the implementation of dairy farmers FFS in Kenya
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Production system: Ganadería, Grandes rumiantes