Number of documents: 23
Young Entrepreneur brings Smart Learning
Audiovisual material
2020 - Access Agriculture -
Use of Solar Powered Smart Projector in Bihar by Young Entrepreneur. Extension for landless.
English
Production system: Crops, Vegetables and Melons, Fruits and Nuts, Pastures /Fodder trees
(Agro)Forestry, Advisory systems and extension, Agrobiodiversity, Agroecology, Climate change, Emergency/disaster risk reduction (DRR), Empowerment and social inclusion, Facilitation and non-formal education, Farm and enterprise management, Rural and producer organizations, Sustainable production intensification
Young Entrepreneur brings smart farmer learning
Case study
2020 - Access Agriculture -
Short story about how Digital for Development money D4D from Belgian Government has helped establish a Young Entrepreneur in Bihar, India using a solar powered smart projector.
English
Production system: Crops, Cereals, Vegetables and Melons, Fruits and Nuts, Pastures /Fodder trees
(Agro)Forestry, Advisory systems and extension, Agrobiodiversity, Agroecology, Climate change, Emergency/disaster risk reduction (DRR), Empowerment and social inclusion, Facilitation and non-formal education, Farm and enterprise management, Rural and producer organizations, Sustainable production intensification
Farmer Field Schools on ZBNF - Anne Sophie, FAO - 23-11-2019, Guntur
Audiovisual material
2020 - AP ZBNF -
English
Production system:
How to develop and manage your own community seed bank: Farmers’ handbook Technical issues: Booklet 2 of 3
Training material
2018 - Bioversity International - Vernooy, R.; Bessette, G.; Sthapit, B.; Gupta, A.
This handbook is a companion to Community seed banks: concept and practice: facilitator handbook by Ronnie Vernooy, Bhuwon Sthapit, and Guy Bessette (Bioversity International 2017). The three booklets making up this handbook were written and designed for rural producers who are interested in establishing, supporting, and managing a community seed [...]
English
Production system:
Social Cost Benefit of CARE International's Pathways Program
Impact assessment
2016 - New Economics Foundation Consulting - Michael Weatherhead, Samrawit Mariam, Sarah Arnold, Alison Freeman
Impact assessment on the social cost benefit analysis of the CARE Pathways program, which focuses on getting extension, tools, and training to women farmers. The program includes gender dialogues and other exercises on gender equality. The study shows a $31 return for every $1 invested.
West Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, South Asia - Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Malawi, Mali, United Republic of Tanzania
English
Production system:
The system of crop intensification: reports from the field on improving agricultural production, food security, and resilience to climate change for multiple crops
Impact assessment
2014 - Agriculture & Food Security - Binju Abraham, Hailu Araya, Tareke Berhe, Sue Edwards, Biksham Gujja, Ram Bahadur Khadka, Yang S Koma, Debashish Sen, Asif Sharif, Erika Styger, Norman Uphoff and Anil Verma
This review article reports on the productivity and other impacts being observed for many different crops in half a dozen countries for increasing food crop yields with lower cost and input requirements as well as more resilience to adverse effects of climate change. It also reports on mechanization innovations that [...]
English
Production system: Cereals, Vegetables and Melons, Oilseed crops, Legumes
Farmer Field Schools in Andra Pradesh (India)
Audiovisual material
2014 - A.P. Rangers, Digital Green -
Farmer Field School(FFS) is an innovative initiative by Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty(SERP) - Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture (CMSA) to strengthen community participation in addressing farming problems of small and medium scale farmers. The local Village Activist and Cluster Activist organize Farmer Field School at a farmer's field. Prior [...]
English
Production system:
AESA based IPM - Tea
Training material
2014 - National Institute of Plant Health Management, India -
The IPM has been evolving over the decades to address the deleterious impacts of synthetic chemical pesticides on environment ultimately affecting the interests of the planters. The economic threshold level (ETL) was the basis for several decades but in modern IPM (FAO 2002) emphasis is given to AESA where planters [...]
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension
Impact assessment
2010 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - Gershon Feder, Jock R. Anderson, Regina Birner, Klaus Deininger
In view of the market failures and the state failures inherent in providing agricultural extension, community-based approaches, which involve farmers‘ groups, have gained increasing importance in recent years as a ―third way‖ to provide this service. The paper discusses the conceptual underpinnings of community-based extension approaches, highlights theoretical and practical [...]
English
Production system:
Impact Assessment of Farmer Field Schools in Cotton Production in China, India and Pakistan
Impact assessment
2010 - Pesticide Policy Project Publication Series - Piyatat Pananurak
This study performed an economic impact analysis of the Farmer Field Schools
(FFS) training program in three major cotton producing countries in Asia; namely
China, India and Pakistan. The training program is based on the Integrated Pest
Management (IPM) approach launched by the “FAO-EU IPM Program for Cotton in Asia”. In the three [...]
English
Production system: Others