Number of documents: 111
Working with resource-poor farmers to manage plant diseases
Case study
2001 - Plant Disease - The American Phytopathological Society - Rebecca Nelson, Christopher Mundt, Ricardo Orego, Oscar Ortiz, Marjon Fredrix, Jose Tenorio and Ngo Vinh Vien
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
English
Production system: Cereals, Root/Tuber crops
Improving local cultivation of soybean in Indonesia through farmers' experiments
Impact assessment
2001 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Programme for Community IPM in Asia - H. Van den Berg and A. S. Lestari
The results of 86 replicated experiments on soybean (Glycine max) cultivation practices in eight provinces ± planned, conducted and analysed by farmers ± were examined to identify local differences in the effects of cultural practices on yield, and to explore the potential for farmers to improve their practices. Plant spacing [...]
English
Production system: Legumes
Cabbage Integrated Pest Management : an Ecological Guide
Training material
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Frederike Praasterink, Jan Willem Ketelaar
The ecological guides are technical reference manuals. They give background information and refer to exercises/studies that can be done in the field during training of trainers (TOT), farmers field schools (FFS) and action research to better understand a topic. The information in the guides is not specific for one country. [...]
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
Tomato Integrated Pest Management : an Ecological Guide
Training material
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Frederike Praasterink, Jan Ketelaar
The ecological guides are technical reference manuals. They give background information and refer to exercises/studies that can be done in the field during training of trainers (TOT), farmers field schools (FFS) and action research to better understand a topic. The information in the guides is not specific for one country. [...]
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
Insect Pest Management in Tropical Asian irrigated Rice
Case study
2000 - Annual Review of Entomology - P. C. Matteson
This article is a review of the implementation of Rice IPM in Tropical Asia,
English
Production system: Cereals
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 [...]
Global -
English
Production system:
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 [...]
Global -
English
Production system:
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
English
Production system:
The ecological knowledge system
Technical background material
1998 - Cambridge University Press - N. Roling, J. Jiggins
Ecologically sound agriculture is not just a question of changing farm practices. It also requires a transformation of a coherent system of learning, its facilitation, institutions and policies. The paper describes the transformation involved on the basis of some country experiences.
Europe, South-East Asia, Oceania, Global - Australia, Germany, Indonesia, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
English
Production system:
Understanding natural enemies; a review of training and information in the practical use of biological control
Technical background material
1998 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Stephanie Williamson
The limitations of conventional methods of training and information provision on natural enemies are discussed. Farmer and popular understanding and perceptions about natural enemies are described. Lessons drawn and limitations encountered in traditional research and extension ‘top-down’ educational activities are examined and some of the more promising approaches are described. [...]
English
Production system: Cereals, Vegetables and Melons, Beverages/Spice crops