Global Farmer Field School Platform

 

With support from FAO, the Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) programme in Andhra Pradesh is strengthening its use of non-formal education approaches and their application to ZBNF in particular on soils, initially in the Guntur district.

FAO and its partners have...

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Starting in the 1990’s, the International Potato Center (CIP)’s integrated pest management team for potato late blight (IPM-LB) realized the importance of addressing the management of late blight, a complex potato disease, by combining crop protection and management sciences, with...

Production system: Root/Tuber crops

FAO has published a new Blue Growth blog post online, entitled  Strengthening integrated aquatic plant and animal farming in the rice fields of Lao PDR.

http://www.fao.org/blogs/blue-growth-blog/strengthening-integrated-aquatic-plant-and-animal-farming-in-the-rice-fields-of-lao-pdr/en/

The innovative “Blue Growth” field work done in Lao PDR was supported within context of...

Production system: Aquaculture

In managing the FAW outbreak, pesticides can be harmful, particularly to the environment as they affect non-targeted organisms, like bees. Though often overlooked, there are other, more natural approaches which have proven effective, such as push-pull and other intercropping technologies,...

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Livestock Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) are “schools without walls” where groups of small-scale livestock producers test and adapt good agricultural and marketing practices that help them to sustainably improve their, and their families’, livelihoods. Over the past two decades, Livestock...

Production system: Livestock Large Ruminants