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This paper uses an innovations systems framework to analyze the ways social capital in the overall agricultural and natural resources innovation system in Nepal has increased far beyond what was originally expected in the project proposal.

This article focuses on how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be used for the knowledge intensive approach that characterizes IPM. It analyses the digital divide between Asia and developed countries.

Over the past eight years, CARE-Bangladesh has been developing a set of sustainable agriculture projects to improve production in rice-based farming systems in this country. These efforts have contributed to an emergent programme to increase food security for poor and marginal farmers. The programme raises agricultural productivity by diversifying agroecosystems and optimizing yields, reducing costs [...]

The Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) sector of CARE is exploring new ways to enhance women's participation and to empower them through aquaculture programs. Farmer field schools, participatory monitoring and evaluation, children's participation initiatives, family approaches and action research are some of the approaches that have been found to be effective [...]

The ecological guides are technical reference manuals. They give background information and refer to exercises/studies that can be done in the field during training of trainers (TOT), farmers field schools (FFS) and action research to better understand a topic. The information in the guides is not specific for one country. [...]

The ecological guides are technical reference manuals. They give background information and refer to exercises/studies that can be done in the field during training of trainers (TOT), farmers field schools (FFS) and action research to better understand a topic. The information in the guides is not specific for one country. [...]

A fully illustrated guide by Nanang Budiyanto covering 18 topics, 2000. This Guide is based on field work carried out over a period of more than 5 years in Indonesia. The 18 exercises have also been used as part of IPM training courses in China, Bangladesh and Thailand. In March [...]

The objective of this Vegetable IPM Exercise Manual is to provide examples of discovery-based exercises and field studies that can be done in IPM trainings, such as Training of Trainers (TOT) and Farmers’ Field Schools (FFS), or as field studies and training follow up. Many of the exercises described in [...]

The development of a curriculum and learning program by farmers for farmers as executed in Nepal.