Number of documents: 106
Preparing farmer groups to engage successfully with markets - A field guide for five key skill sets
Material de capacitación
2007 - CRS and RII-CIAT Agroenterprise Study Tour Group -
The field guide aims to provide pointers for program managers and field staff on how to foster several skill sets crucial for preparing groups of poor farmers who are at a very early stage of engaging in markets and who aspire to successful agroenterprise development.
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The Clustering Approach to Agroenterprise Development for Small Farmers: The CRS-Philippines Experience. A Guidebook for Facilitators.
Material de capacitación
2007 - Catholic Relief Services - Jessan S. Catre, Floro T. Israel, Lionel D. Mendoza, Joan Cua Uy, Dinah Q. Tabbada, Alexander U. Tabbada
This guidebook has been designed for Field Facilitators who have adequate field experience in community development work. The production of this guidebook was also made in response to the request of other development organizations to assist them on how to adopt, adapt and implement Agroenterprise Development in linking small farmers [...]
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Organic cocoa production : a guide for Farmer Field Schools in Sierra Leone
Material de capacitación
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
Inglés
Production system: Estimulantes y especies
Farmer field schools in Thailand: history, economics and policy
Estudio de caso
2007 - Pesticide Policy Project - Suwanna Praneetvatakul, Hermann Waibel, Lakchai Meenakanit
This document is a book of recompiled analysis that rely in the same data collected over a period of over four years in five pilot projects on the rise FFS in Thailand. It presents a blend of analytical procedures covering various aspects of impact.
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Production system: Cereales
Report of the International Workshop on Environmental Impact Quotient (EIQ)
Promoción y políticas
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
The Environmental Impact Quotient, EIQ, is one of numerous pesticide risk indicator models developed to rate potential hazardous impacts on human health and the environment of different pesticide use regimes. The EIQ takes into account toxicity information on the inherent potential of the active ingredient as well as actual application [...]
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Reducing pesticide exposure and associated neurotoxic burden in an Ecuadorian small farm population
Estudio de impacto
2007 - International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health - Cole, D.C., S. Sherwood, M. Paredes, L. Helena Sanin, C. Crissman, P. Espinosa and F. Munoz
The contribution of community-based interventions, including farmer field schools (FFSs) in integrated pest management (IPM), to reducing pesticide exposures and associated neurotoxic burden among smallfarm families in Ecuador was assessed in three Andean farming communities in a co-design of targeted action–research. Baseline questionnaire surveys elicited pesticide-related knowledge, practices, and exposure [...]
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The Impact of Farmer Field Schools On Pesticide Use and Environment in Thailand
Estudio de impacto
2006 - German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA) - 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 [...]
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Production system: Cereales
An Ecological Guide to Potato Integrated Crop Management
Material de capacitación
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Potato Center (CIP-ESEAP Region) - Warsito Tantowijoyo (CIP) and Elske van de Fliert (FAO)
In this handbook we have tried to use language understandable to farmers,
purposely keeping material as simple but as thorough as possible. It opens with an
explanation about the principles of integrated pest management, then moves on to
technical production topics about potatoes. These cover cultivation techniques, the
ecology of pests and natural enemies, [...]
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Production system: Raíces y tubérculos
Adaptation and adoption of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Myanmar using the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach
Documentos técnicos de referencia
2006 - Cornell University. College of Agriculture and Life Science - Humayun Kabir
A PhD thesis.
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Production system: Cereales
SARD Project Toolkit
Otros
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.
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