Number of documents: 567
Living soils: Training Exercises for Integrated Soils Management
Training material
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Global -
English
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IPM by Farmers: the Farmer IPM Trainers ToT programme in Nepal
Case study
2000 - Community IPM - Mohamad Atek Zambani
The development of a curriculum and learning program by farmers for farmers as executed in Nepal.
English
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Gender and IPM in Nepal
Case study
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - The FAO Inter-Country Programme for IPM in vegetables in South and Southeast Asia
This article explores the relationship of women and IPM in agriculture in Nepal. The goal is to promote the implementations of programme in which women and men will benefit equally.
English
Production system:
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' Awareness and Perceptions of the Effect of Pesticides on their Health
Case study
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Pan Sodavy, Mam Sitha, Robert Nugent, Helen Murphy
This paper reports the results of a pilot qualitative study in 3 vegetable growing areas of Cambodia: Kandal and Siem Riep provinces and areas around Phnom Penh. The aim of the pilot was to assess how farmers feel pesticides affect their own and their family’s health, determine what [...]
English
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Claim no easy victories: Evaluating the Pesticide Industry's Global Safe Use Campaign
Case study
2000 - World Development - Gerd Walter-Echols, Harry van der Wulp
The pesticide industry's Global Safe Use campaign has reportedly produced a
dramatic decline in pesticide-related health and environmental problems in Guatemala. This paper challenges this claim, reanalyzing existing data and further evaluating claims of the campaign's efficacy.
English
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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
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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 [...]
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English
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Health Effects of Pesticide use among Indonesian Women Farmers. Part II: Reproductive Health outcomes
Case study
2000 - Journal of Agromedicine - Helen Murphy, Arik Sanusi, Russ Dilts, S. Yuliantiningsih, N. Hirschhorn, M. Djajadisastra
A study conducted on female spray operators and a non operators to assess the reproductive impacts of pesticide use.
English
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A Manual to Facilitate Participatory Planning Activities to Empower Community IPM
Training material
1999 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Mufid A. Busyairi
Global -
English
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