Number of documents: 105
EFARP Farmer Field School
Material audiovisual
2013 - MTT Finland -
Egypt-Finland Agricultural Research Project (EFARP)
EFARP was launched in 1989 as a pilot project to provide a model how the efficiency of small-scale farming in the newly reclaimed areas can be improved with the help of efficient utilisation of agricultural research results. Ismailia Governorate on both sides of Suez Canal was [...]
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Production system: Cultivo
Farmer Field Schools: A Systematic Review
Estudio de impacto
2013 - International Initiative for Impact Evaluation - Hugh Waddington; Birte Snilstveit, Jorge Hombrados, Martina Vojtkova, Daniel Phillips, Howard White
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Empowering Farmers to reduce Pesticide Risks
Estudio de impacto
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Alma Linda Morales-Abubakar Randall Arnst Do Kim Chung Jan Willem Ketelaar Piyatat Pananurak Suwanna Praneetvatakul Suon Seng Harry van der Wulp Betsy Walter-Echols Gerd Walter-Echols
This publication documents impact assessment work done on FAO supported community education for pesticide risk reduction efforts implemented through National IPM Programmes in Cambodia and Vietnam during the 2007-2012 period. Impact assessment on investments in capacity building and education
programmes is notoriously difficult. Using science-based research methodologies, the impact assessment [...]
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Innovative Training in Cocoa Agroforestry: the Farmer Field Schools of Nicaragua
Información sobre proyectos
2012 - The World Bank - Mary Lisbeth Gonzalez
A regular series of notes highlighting recent lessons emerging from the operational and analytical program of the World Bank‘s Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC).
The World Bank, with the financial support of the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF), is implementing the Alternative Indigenous and AfroDescendants and Agroforestry Project (COCOA – [...]
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Production system: Frutas y Nueces, Estimulantes y especies
Sustainable Tea Production: an Assessment of Farmer Field Schools in Kenya
Estudio de impacto
2012 - LEI - Sabine Hiller, Davies D. Onduru, André de Jager
Farmers who participated in both Rainforest Alliance (RA) training and Farmer
Field School (FFS) training had the highest increase in knowledge of GAPs
between 2010 and 2012, followed by farmers who participated only in the RA
training. Farmers trained for RA certification also had a significantly higher
knowledge level in 2012 than the other [...]
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Production system: Estimulantes y especies
Community Mobilization: a Key to Effective Control of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt
Estudio de impacto
2012 - Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics - Kubiriba J., Karamura E. B., Jogo, W., Tushemereirwe W. K. and Tinzaara W.
Banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) remains a major threat to banana, an important food and income crop for 12 million poor small-holder farmers in Uganda. Although, BXW has been controlled to some extent in parts of South-western Uganda, it is still a big problem in banana growing areas of Central and [...]
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Production system: Frutas y Nueces
Sustainable Intensification of Agricultural Production: The Essential Role of Ecosystem-Literacy Education for Smallholder Farmers in Asia
Estudio de caso
2012 - Biology Education for Social and Sustainable Development - Jan Willem Ketelaar, Alma Linda Abubakar
The article focuses on a sustainable intensification of agricultural production without the dependence of pesticides. It takes into account the work that FAO has done with Asian governments in improving IPM strategies.
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Production system:
Coping with changes in cropping systems: plant pests and seeds. In: Building resilience for adaptation to climate change in the agriculture sector
Estudio de caso
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - M. Allara, S. Kugbei, F. Dusunceli and G. Gbehounou
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Farmer Field Schools as a vehicle to help vulnerable smallholder farmers develop climate resilient farming systems: experiences based on FAO's work in South and Southeast Asia
Promoción y políticas
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Jan Willem Ketelaar, Alma Linda M. Abubakar
Short presentation.
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Field Exercise Guide on Fruit Flies Integrated Pest Management
Material de capacitación
2011 - Asian Fruit Fly IPM Project - Prabhat Kumar, Abubakar, AlmaLinda, Jan Willem Ketelaar, Vijaysegaran Shanmugam
“Area-wide Fruit Fly Integrated Pest Management in South and Southeast Asia‖ is a regional initiative coordinated by the Asian Institute of Technology with funding support from Taiwan‘s ICDF (www.icdf.org.tw). The project has a focus on adaptation and adoption of fruit fly IPM practices among vegetable and fruit smallholder using Farmer‘s [...]
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Production system: Frutas y Nueces