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I use an autobiographical approach to tell the story of innovation and its changing fortunes and uses. I have lived through the major approaches and perspectives in the past 50 years and have played some role in them myself. The paper starts off with my early days with the [...]

Need for Pesticide Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment in IPM Programmes

There is an increasing demand on IPM projects to examine their economic, environmental, health and social impacts, including their achievements in reducing pesticide related risks. The Environmental Impact Quotient (EIQ) is one of the tools that is being used to measure achievements in pesticide risk reduction. It was developed in [...]

The FAO Regional Workshop on Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Production and Protection of the Potato Crop in Viet Nam and elsewhere in Asia (WOCSPPPCVA), co-organized by the Potato Vegetable and Flower Centre and the FAO Vegetable IPM Programme, was held in Da Lat city from 25-28 November 2008. Thirty-one participants, [...]

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 [...]

Malaria and other vector-borne diseases are a major public health problem in WHO’s South-East Asia Region. In the wake of increasing resistance to both drugs and pesticides, there is a need to establish integrated vector management strategies that are less reliant on chemical methods of disease control. These strategies should [...]

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.