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The publication “Manual for Preparation and Establishment of Farmer Field and Farm Business Schools” is intended to be used by the stakeholders in organic sector in Serbia. It has been developed within the framework of the UN FAO Project GCP/SRB/001/HUN: “Assistance to the Development of Capacity and Support Services for [...]

Le présent guide a été élaboré pour harmoniser les approches de CEP de toutes les organisations et institutions œuvrant dans ce domaine et pour donner un impact durable au fil des interventions et indépendamment des Projets et ONG.

Brazilian agriculture is facing another expansion cycle to the Cerrado region, more specific in the Northeast. The first agriculture expansion cycle to the Midwest was in seventies encouraged and developed by Brazilian Government with farmers from southern and southeast Brazil, which were traditional small farmers with some experience, low budget [...]

Le renforcement de la résilience des communautés vulnérables aux menaces et aux catastrophes dans un monde en évolution rapide appelle des approches innovantes et souples pour répondre aux besoins dynamiques et spécifiques de divers systèmes de subsistance. Cependant, la plupart des mécanismes de services existants dans le secteur agricole s’articulent [...]

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 [...]

HHMs build on a growing understanding that, in many parts of the world, households are not cohesive units with shared needs, resources, benefits and goals. Rather, women and men in the same household often pursue separate livelihoods and are responsible for different production and consumption activities. Women usually have fewer [...]

Informe final de un proyecto de comercialización de fréjol financiado por el IICA

The present study was conducted in the central region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan comprising seven districts: Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Mardan, Swabi, Kohat and Hangu, during 2010. The objective was to analyze the perceived effect of Farmer Field School (FFS) approach on farmers’ capacity in controlling pre- and postharvest losses. [...]

Tajikistan is preparing to reform its water sector to more efficiently manage water resources. This policy brief contributes relevant insights from Swiss-funded integrated watershed management initiatives in Tajikistan. While sustainable land management practices help conserve the productive and protective properties of agricultural areas in hazardprone regions, this requires careful consideration of the full range [...]