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Esta guía proporciona información básica para comprender y aplicar la metodología de las ECAs como alternativa de trabajo de los profesionales de estensionismo.

El propósito de este módulo es proporcionar a los facilitadores de las Escuelas de campo y de vida para jóvenes agricultores (JFFLS, por sus siglas en inglés) la información que les permitirá tratar el tema del cambio climático, en particular el impacto sobre la agricultura y las medidas que pueden [...]

In China, a major agricultural challenge is the inefficient use of fertilizer and the environmental effects associated with this overuse. China’s farmers use more fertilizer per hectare (more than 200 kg/ha) than farmers anywhere else in the world except for Japan, The Netherlands and South Korea. Existing studies have shown [...]

An Empirical Analysis of Expanding Rice Production in Sub-Sahara Africa. How far can new technologies taught to a small number of selected farmers diffuse to other farmers in a village? In order to answer this question, this paper investigates the impact of JICA training on the adoption of rice cultivation technologies [...]

More than 22,000 farmers on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, off the Tanzanian coast, have gone back to school. Although they have farmed for generations, they have decided to learn how to farm. Their productivity has increased so much, that the local Government has made these Farmer Field Schools [...]

Programme sous-régional de "Gestion Intégrée de la Production et des Déprédateurs" (GIPD). "With COQUA (COmmercialization and QUAlity) module of IPM, I manage well the marketing of my onion production in the local market. In addition to that I feel that I have a perfect mastering of my production and my agricultural [...]

L'usage abusif des pesticides est nocif pour la santé et l'environnement. Nombres de producteurs en sont persuadés, mais comment les éviter?

En plus du renforcement de capacités techniques, la GIPD a favorisé la mise en place d'une organisation des producteurs au Sénégal. L'Union des producteurs maraichers GIPD (UPM-GIPD), assure une bonne diffusion de l'approche et appuie ses membres dans la fourniture en intrants et la commercialisation de la production.

We provide results from a study of two separate sectors within the cottongrowing region of southern Mali. In one sector, farmers have engaged in a farmer field school (FFS) training programme since 2003—the other not. One goal of the training was the adoption of alternatives to the use of hazardous insecticides, through integrated [...]