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This manual encourages the agricultural sector, AIDS programmes and NGOs to assist farming communities in their efforts to build their resilience and reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.

The objective of this ecological guide is to provide general technical background information on eggplant production, supplemented with field experiences from the National IPM programmes connected to FAO’s Vegetable IPM Programme, and from related organizations active in farmer participatory IPM. The information in the guides is not specific for one [...]

Desde que comenzó, en 1989, la mayoría de participantes y facilitadores del exitoso programa de Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores (ECA) para el Manejo Integrado de Plagas (MIP) han sido hombres.

El aplicar el enfoque ECA al MIP para árboles perennes ha requerido varias adaptaciones, incluyendo cambios en el contenido y duración de la ECA, y en los métodos empleados en el Análisis del Agro-Ecosistema (AAE). Este artículo está basado en nuestras experiencias con el proyecto Estado del Cultivo con MIP [...]

This document presents the dangers of pesticides in the foods that are eaten daily in the context of Thailand.

The farmer field school (FFS) is a season long training of farmers involving participatory activities, hands-on analysis and decision making. Because it requires significant investments in time, trainers and other facilities, the approach can be an expensive way of diffusing new science-based knowledge and other information to farmers. However, if [...]

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.