Number of documents: 103
Changing the strategies of Farmer Field Schools in Bangladesh
Case study
2007 - LEISA Magazine - Hein Bijlmakers and Muhammad Ashraful Islam
English
Production system: Cereals
Role of Farmer Field Schools on sugarcane productivity in Malakand, Pakistan
Impact assessment
2007 - Department of Extension Education and Communication NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar - Pakistan - MUBASHIR HABIB, M. ZAFARULLAH KHAN, MAHMOOD IQBAL, KHALID NAWAB & SHAHID ALI
Farmer field schools (FFS) are always aimed to help farmers to discover and learn about field ecology and integrated crop management. A study for sugarcane crop was conducted in 4 FFS villages namely Zoormandai, Baghicha, Sarogai and Haji Gulzada Kalay of Malakand Agency during 2004-05. From each FFS, 10 farmers [...]
English
Production system: Sugar crops
Organic cocoa production : a guide for Farmer Field Schools in Sierra Leone
Training material
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Cora Dankers, Chris Newell
The objective of the guide is to promote participants' production and export quality cocoa in sufficient quantities to fulfill export contracts
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Farmer Field School for Potato Integrated Pest Management - A Facilitator’s Field Guide
Training material
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Sri Wahyuning, Warsito Tantowijoyo, Elske van de Fliert
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 [...]
English
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
Adaptation and adoption of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Myanmar using the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach
Technical background material
2006 - Cornell University. College of Agriculture and Life Science - Humayun Kabir
A PhD thesis.
English
Production system: Cereals
Improving soil fertility and farm productivity under intensive crop-dairy smallholdings: experiences from Farmer Field Schools in the highlands of Kiambu district, Central Kenya
Case study
2006 - Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research - D.D. Onduru, A. De Jager, B. Wouters, F.N. Muchena, L. Gachimbi and G.N. Gachini
A study to improve soil fertility and farm productivity under intensive crop-dairy smallholder farming systems was carried out in Kiambu District, central Kenya highlands in the period 2003-2005 using farmer field school approach.
English
Production system: Crops, Livestock, Pastures /Fodder trees, Large Ruminants
The impact of farmer field schools on pesticide use and environment in Thailand
Impact assessment
2006 - Kasetsart University, University of Hanover - Suwanna Praneetvatakul, Hermann Waibel
This paper presents an application of a difference in differences model to measure environmental and economic impacts of Farmer Field School on crop and pest management practices of rice in Thailand. Panel data from 241 farm households were collected three times over a period of four years in five rice-producing [...]
English
Production system: Cereals
An integrated pest management program for burrowing shrimp control in oyster aquaculture
Case study
2006 - Aquaculture - Brett R. Dumbauld, Steven Booth, Daniel Cheney, Andrew Suhrbier, Hector Beltran
In January 2001, the growers, several state agencies and other parties signed a memorandum of agreement to transition the industry towards integrated pest management. The study we report on here was associated with that effort and had four objectives: 1) Estimate observer error and quantify efficacy of the current burrowing [...]
English
Production system: Aquaculture, Fisheries
SARD Project Toolkit
Other
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Karen Powell
The SARD Project Toolkit summarizes frameworks, approaches and tools that can be used to promote sustainability in the management of agricultural and rural development projects and programmes.
Global -
English
Production system:
Zooming-in zooming-out: a novel method to scale up local innovations and sustainable technologies
Impact assessment
2006 - Africa Rice Center (WARDA) - Paul Van Mele
In this paper, two case studies from Asia and Africa are presented that deal with developing, testing and disseminating educational videos. Processes that contribute to scaling up sustainable rice technologies are analysed. The next sections highlight key elements of effective videos, followed by how videos were used and what effect [...]
English
Production system: Cereals