Number of documents: 91
Farmer Field School: A Peace Corps Experience
Matériel audiovisuel
2010 - Jessie Luna -
A video for incoming Peace Corps Volunteers or other extension agents working in rural agricultural development. Explains a bit of the background of Farmer Field Schools and some of the work of an agricultural volunteer in Mali, West Africa.
If you are curious about what Peace Corps Volunteers who know [...]
Anglais
Production system: Culture
Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit for Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools
Matériel de formation
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Terri Ballard, Tanith K.Bello, Francesca Dalla Valle
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is an important aspect to undertake in a project or programme and supports the management work to ensure compliance of its strategies, objectives and approach. It is the mechanism for which the process aspects of a programme can be tracked and accounted for, as well as [...]
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Impact assessment of Farmers Field Schools in Chhatarpur district
Étude d'impact
2009 - Action for social advancement (ASA) - Ben Redmond
Much of rural India is suffering from what Prime minister Manmohan Singh has termed “technological fatigue in agriculture” (Kshirsagar A, 2008). In order to reverse this state of affairs, considerable investment and macro scale action is required. However, for sustainable and meaningful change, community level extension is vital. One response [...]
Anglais
Production system: Culture
IPM Impact Assessment Series. Use of Environmental Impact Quotient in IPM Programmes in Asia (Review)
Étude d'impact
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Gerd Walter-Echols, Harry van der Wulp
Need for Pesticide Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment in IPM Programmes
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IPM Impact Assessment Series. Guidance Document num. 2: Guidance on the Use of Environmental Impact Quotient in IPM Impact Assessment
Étude d'impact
2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
There is an increasing demand on IPM projects to examine their economic, environmental, health and social impacts, including their achievements in reducing pesticide related risks. The Environmental Impact Quotient (EIQ) is one of the tools that is being used to measure achievements in pesticide risk reduction. It was developed in [...]
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Appraisal of Methods to Evaluate Farmer Field Schools
Étude d'impact
2008 - Development in Practice - Francesca Mancini and Janice Jiggins
The need to increase agricultural sustainability has induced the government of India to promote the adoption of integrated pest management (IPM). An evaluation of cotton-based conventional and IPM farming systems was conducted in India (2002–2004). The farmers managing the IPM farms had participated in discovery-based ecological training, namely Farmer Field [...]
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Investing in farmers—the impacts of Farmer Field Schools in relation to Integrated Pest Management - A reply
Étude d'impact
2007 - Wageningen University - Henk Van Den Berg and Janice Jiggins
Public policy in developing countries has failed to invest in educating farmers on how to deal with variable agro-ecosystems and a changing world. Here we present an assessment of a participatory training approach in changing crop protection by farmers from chemically dependent, to more sustainable practices in line with the [...]
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Farmer field schools in Thailand: history, economics and policy
Étude de cas
2007 - Pesticide Policy Project - Suwanna Praneetvatakul, Hermann Waibel, Lakchai Meenakanit
This document is a book of recompiled analysis that rely in the same data collected over a period of over four years in five pilot projects on the rise FFS in Thailand. It presents a blend of analytical procedures covering various aspects of impact.
Anglais
Production system: Céréales
Practice makes perfect - participatory innovation in soil fertility management to improve rural livelihoods in East Africa
Documents techniques de référence
2007 - Wageningen University - Andre de Jager
This article focuses on the context of the Millenium development goals (MDG) and improving and maintaining soil fertility in Africa.
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Workshop on Pesticide Risk Impact Assessment
Étude d'impact
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Workshop Report
Under the project “Pesticide Risk Reduction in South East Asia”, an impact
assessment workshop was held in Ho Chi Minh City from 23 to 25 July, 2007. It was
attended by 10 participants from China, Cambodia and Vietnam. The participants
included independent impact assessment leaders from the Royal University of
Agriculture in Phnom [...]
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