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A season-long assessment of acute pesticide poisoning among farmers was conducted in three villages in India. Fifty female cotton growers reported the adverse effects experienced after exposures to pesticides by themselves and by their male relatives (n = 47). The study documented the serious consequences of pesticide use for the [...]

El libreo es una guía para la implementación de ECAs con una amplia axplicación del enfoque metodlógico, presenta experiencias en Ecuador y herramientas de aprendizaje así como ejemplo de curriculos de capacitación

The overall purpose of this project is to assist farmers in Central and West Java to increase their returns from the potato and Brassica production system by adapting proven Australian, Indonesian and CIP technologies to conditions in Central and West Java to develop best local farming practices. The project will: 1. [...]

El documento se centra en presentar los principales resultdos que las ECAs han tenido hasta esa fecha en los Andes, principalemnte. Uno de los temas centrales ha sido lograr que los agricultores puedan manejar el tizón tardío en papa

Following major initiatives, two Farmer Field Schools occurred during the period August 2003 to September 2004 in the Caura Valley in North Trinidad, West Indies. This paper assesses these schools according to six key issues of Owens and Simpson (2001). A study recorded many observations during the conduct of the [...]

An FFS guide designed as a collection of suggestions to "refresh the memory" of FFS facilitators who graduated from a season-long TOT.

This paper presents the findings of a short qualitative study. It showed that pilot cowpea Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in Benin were a vital source of new skills and information, integrating a number of existing knowledge sharing networks of rural men and women.

This paper analyzes the interaction between farmer training in pest management and effects on acute pesticide poisoning and populations of beneficial insects in Nicaragua. Using farm level data from Nicaraguan bean growers, including graduates of Farmer Field Schools (FFS), other integrated pest management (IPM) outreach methods, and farmers without exposure [...]

This case examines some of the human – as opposed to technological – factors that have influenced the scaling up of the FFS. Organisational issues such as leadership, policy, human resources and competition help to explain why the IPM field school has taken off in some places and not in others. Examples are taken [...]