Number of documents: 25
Impact of IPM Programs in Asian Agriculture, in : Integrated Pest Management: Dissemination and Impact
Estudio de caso
2009 - Springer Science - Kevin D. Gallagher, Peter A.C. Ooi and Peter E. Kenmore
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 [...]
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Production system: Cereales, Verduras y melones
Effects of Training on acquisition of Pest Management Knowledge and Skills by Small Vegetable Farmers
Estudio de impacto
2008 - Crop Protection - Puyun Yang, Wenxin Liu, Xunan Shan, Ping Li, Jinyu Zhou, Jianping Lu, Yahong Li
Effects of farmer field school (FFS) and the conventional (classroom lectures) training on acquisition of pest management knowledge and skills by small vegetable farmers were studied in Yunnan province, China from 2003 to 2007. There were significant gains of knowledge about vegetable pests, natural enemies, insect and disease ecology and [...]
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Production system: Verduras y melones
Agricultural extension in Africa and Asia
Documentos técnicos de referencia
2007 - World AgInfo Project - Carl K. Eicher
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.
Near East and North Africa, West Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, South-East Asia, Global -
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Farmer Field School for Potato Integrated Pest Management - A Facilitator’s Field Guide
Material de capacitación
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 [...]
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Production system: Raíces y tubérculos
The Impact of the FAO-EU IPM Programme for Cotton in Asia
Estudio de impacto
2005 - Pesticide Policy Project - Peter A. C. Ooi, Suwanna Praneetvatakul, Hermann Waibel, Gerd Walter-Echols
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An effective approach of safe vegetable production: a case of community vegetable integrated pest management in Kunming city, Yunan province
Estudio de caso
2005 - National Agro-technical Extension and Service Center, Ministry of Agriculture, China - Puyun Yang, Ping Li, Elske van de Fliert and Xinmei Hu
This paper describes a case study in small producer system in the Petri-urban areas of Kunming city, Yunnan province on an approach of farmer participatory vegetable community IPM development. The vegetable community IPM development was composted of farmer education, technological development, farmers’ self organization, alliance building and policy supporting. [...]
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Production system: Verduras y melones
Environmental educational for Poor Farmers
Estudio de impacto
2004 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Peter A. C. Ooi - Gerd Walter-Echols - Dai Weidong - Alma Linda Morales - Abubakar Lim - Guan Soon Palaniswamy - Pachagounder Manzoor - H. Soomro - Cesar Galvan - Francesca Mancini - Rikke Petersen - Kevin Kamp
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 [...]
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Production system: Cultivo, Otros
Eggplant Integrated Pest Management : an Ecological Guide
Material de capacitación
2003 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Frederike Praasterink
The objective of this ecological guide is to provide general technical background information on eggplant production, supplemented with field experiences from the National IPM programmes connected to FAO’s Vegetable IPM Programme, and from related organizations active in farmer participatory IPM.
The information in the guides is not specific for one [...]
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Production system: Frutas y Nueces
Farmer Field Schools in China: Experience in Huoshan County with the China Netherlands Poverty Alleviation Project
Estudio de caso
2003 - International Potato Center - Wang Haiyang
This paper, as a part of a report from an international learning workshop, describes how farmer field schools have been adopted in the nationally designated poverty county of Huoshan, Anhui, with the support of a bilateral poverty alleviation project to meet the needs of farmers and help them to help [...]
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Ten years of IPM Training in Asia from Farmer Field School to Community IPM
Documentos claves sobre ECA
2002 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - John Pontius, Russell Dilts, Andrew Bartlett
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