Number of documents: 56
Growing Up in the REAL World
Estudio de caso
2004 - LEISA Magazine - Andrew Bartlett and Marut Jatiket
REAL stands for Rural Ecology and Agricultural Livelihoods. REAL Education is an integrated learning process in which school children explore what is happening on local farms, gain an understanding of ecology, and develop critical thinking skills with respect to environmental, health and social problems.
REAL Education is now an international movement, [...]
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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
Farmers' Life School manual
Material de capacitación
2004 - United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Education - Ou Chhaya, Jacques du Guerny, Richard Geeves, Masaya Kato, Lee-Nah Hsu
This manual encourages the agricultural sector, AIDS programmes and NGOs to assist farming communities in their efforts to build their resilience and reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.
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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
El efecto de los sistemas institucionales en la calidad de las ECAs: el caso de un proyecto MIP en el Perú
Estudio de caso
2003 - LEISA Revista de Agroecología - Alfredo Malarín
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ECA para cultivos arbóreos
Estudio de caso
2003 - LEISA Revista de Agroecología - James Mangan , Margaret S. Mangan
El aplicar el enfoque ECA al MIP para árboles perennes ha requerido varias adaptaciones, incluyendo cambios en el contenido y duración de la ECA, y en los métodos empleados en el Análisis del Agro-Ecosistema (AAE). Este artículo está basado en nuestras experiencias con el proyecto Estado del Cultivo con MIP [...]
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Production system: Frutas y Nueces, Estimulantes y especies
Diversifying Rice-based Systems and Empowering Farmers in Bangladesh Using the Farmer Field-school Approach
Estudio de caso
2002 - Earthscan Publications - Norman Uphoff
Over the past eight years, CARE-Bangladesh has been developing a set of
sustainable agriculture projects to improve production in rice-based farming
systems in this country. These efforts have contributed to an emergent
programme to increase food security for poor and marginal farmers. The
programme raises agricultural productivity by diversifying agroecosystems
and optimizing yields, reducing costs [...]
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Production system: Cereales
Tea IPM Ecological Guide
Material de capacitación
2001 - CIDSE - Michael R. Zeiss, Koen den Braber
This is a trainer's reference guide on crop development, major agronomic practices, disease and insect management, written for small-holders' tea cultivation in northern Vietnam. The guide will also be of interest to tea producers in other parts of the world who want to apply an ecological approach to crop [...]
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Production system: Estimulantes y especies
Field Guide on Peanuts
Material de capacitación
2000 - Vietnam National IPM Programme - Alma Linda C. Morales Abubakar
From discussions with farmer groups that attended a Farmer Field School we learned that in many cases the groups are interested in continuing activities and studies. One of the areas that farmer groups are interested to study more is peanuts. In this field guide field studies and special topics on [...]
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Production system: Frutas y Nueces
Farmer Field Schools for ecological potato production in the Andes
Estudio de caso
2000 - LEISA Magazine - Stephen Sherwood, Rebecca Nelson, Graham Thiele and Oscar Ortiz
Various partners are working with farmers to strengthen local innovative capacity as a means of enhancing production and integrated management of potato in the Andes. Groups in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia have used the Farmer Field School approach as a jumping-off point to tackle a range of challenges, most notably
knowledge [...]
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Production system: Raíces y tubérculos