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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.

This article explores the relationship of women and IPM in agriculture in Nepal. The goal is to promote the implementations of programme in which women and men will benefit equally.

This article is a review of the implementation of Rice IPM in Tropical Asia,

The limitations of conventional methods of training and information provision on natural enemies are discussed. Farmer and popular understanding and perceptions about natural enemies are described. Lessons drawn and limitations encountered in traditional research and extension ‘top-down’ educational activities are examined and some of the more promising approaches are described. [...]

The cultivation of tropical Asian rice, which may have originated 9000 yr ago, represents an agricultural ecosystem of unrivaled ecological complexity. We undertook a study of the community ecology of irrigated tropical rice fields on Java, Indonesia, as a supporting study for the Indonesian National Integrated Pest Management Programme, whose [...]