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The article focuses on a sustainable intensification of agricultural production without the dependence of pesticides. It takes into account the work that FAO has done with Asian governments in improving IPM strategies.

We are hopeful that the selection of structured learning exercises presented in the manual will provide good inspirational tools to the IPM trainers, extension personnel and farmers to create stimulating learning experiences for FF IPM trainers and farmers leading to sound scientific knowledge base for sustainable management of fruit flies.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of the Kyrgyz republic in 1991 Kyrgyz agriculture went through deep structural changes, from large collective farms to household-scaled semi-subsistence farms. Former kolkhoz and sovkhoz specialists became smallscale farm- generalists with a huge lack of technical knowledge and entrepreneurship. Those [...]

IPM Programs in Asia, including on rice, cotton and vegetables, have been broadly based on three dimensions. First is a solid IPM science basis including ecological interaction, plant physiology and soil-plant interactions. Second is policy for IPM, especially elimination of pesticide subsidies which cause over-use of pesticides and disrupt natural enemies [...]

The purpose of this review is to summarize the literature on the role of agricultural extension systems in helping smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia increase agriculture production and their livelihoods.

This guide is meant as a reference for IPM FFS facilitators. It describes exercises for the farmer field school learning process relating to sustainable potato cultivation. This learning process begins with preparing fields for planting and goes on right up to marketing harvest produce. These experiential learning exercises are intended to empower farmers to [...]

The issue of empowerment is of increasing relevance to CARE. During the last few years, the organization has been giving greater emphasis to right-based approaches that ‘empower people to claim and exercise their rights and fulfill their responsibilities’. More recently, CARE-Bangladesh has started to plan a new programme for the [...]

More than half of the world’s cotton is produced by Asian farmers, the majority of them small landholders with plot sizes of less than one-half hectare. Within Asia, cotton production is diverse and this diversity manifests itself among the countries participating in the FAO-EU Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Programme for [...]