Number of documents: 163
The Farmer Field School: a method for enhancing the role of rural communities in malaria control ?
Documents techniques de référence
2006 - Malaria Journal - Henk van den Berg, Bart GJ Knols
Malaria has strong linkages with agriculture, and farmers in malarious regions have a central position in creating or controlling the conditions that favour disease transmission. An interdisciplinary and integrated approach is needed to involve farmers and more than one sector in control efforts. It is suggested that malaria control can [...]
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Anglais
Production system:
The impact of farmer field schools on pesticide use and environment in Thailand
Étude d'impact
2006 - Kasetsart University, University of Hanover - Suwanna Praneetvatakul, Hermann Waibel
This paper presents an application of a difference in differences model to measure environmental and economic impacts of Farmer Field School on crop and pest management practices of rice in Thailand. Panel data from 241 farm households were collected three times over a period of four years in five rice-producing [...]
Anglais
Production system: Céréales
Farmer Field School (FFS) Manual: Guidelines for the Implementation of a Farmer Field School (FFS)
Matériel de formation
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
This manual highlights the major activities in conducting Farmer Field Schools (FFS) for IPM in watermelons and can also be used as a guide for the conduct of FFS in other crops. It is hoped that the manual will be used and shared among the FFS Facilitators as a resource [...]
Anglais
Production system: Légumes et melons, Fruits et noix
An integrated pest management program for burrowing shrimp control in oyster aquaculture
Étude de cas
2006 - Aquaculture - Brett R. Dumbauld, Steven Booth, Daniel Cheney, Andrew Suhrbier, Hector Beltran
In January 2001, the growers, several state agencies and other parties signed a memorandum of agreement to transition the industry towards integrated pest management. The study we report on here was associated with that effort and had four objectives: 1) Estimate observer error and quantify efficacy of the current burrowing [...]
Anglais
Production system: Aquaculture, Pêche
Impact of integrated pest management Farmer Field Schools on health, farming systems, the environment, and livelihoods of cotton growers in Southern India
Étude d'impact
2006 - Wageningen University - Francesca Mancini
Crop productivity has increased worldwide since the late 1950s thanks to the modernisation of agriculture. However, many small-scale farming systems located in regions with limited access to resources have seen their profitability constrained by the intensification of input use. The rain-fed cotton farming sector in South and Central India provides [...]
Anglais
Production system:
Impact assessment of Farmer Field Schools using a multi-period panel data model
Étude d'impact
2006 - Association of Agricultural Economist Conference - Suwanna Praneetvatakul and Hermann Waibel
This paper presents an application of a two and three stages difference in differences model to measure environmental and economic impacts of Farmer Field School on crop and pest management practices of rice in Thailand. Panel data from 241 farm households were collected three times over a period of four [...]
Anglais
Production system: Céréales
Socio-economic impact of a cocoa integrated crop and pest management diffusion knowledge through a farmer field school approach in Southern Cameroon
Étude d'impact
2006 - International Association of Agricultural Economists Conference - Njankoua Wandji Dieu ne dorta ; Lapbim Nkeh Juliusa ; James Jim Gockowskia and Tchouamo Isaacb
We focused on the Socio-Economic Evaluation of Farmer Field School Training on
Integrated Pest Management in the humid forest region of Cameroon. The main objective was to assess the impact of training on integrated pest management (IPM) on cocoa farmer field school graduates. The results indicate that shade management, phytosanitary harvest, [...]
Anglais
Production system: Fruits et noix, Stimulants et épices
Ressource Manual on Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) in Vegetables
Matériel de formation
2005 - World Education (INGO) Philippines, Inc. - World Education (INGO) Philippines, Inc.
Anglais
Production system: Légumes et melons
The Children’s Participation in Integrated Production and Pest Management (CP IPPM) program - Manual on Social Mobilization and Advocacy (SMA)
Matériel de formation
2005 - World Education (INGO) Philippines, Inc. -
Anglais
Production system:
Optimising the productivity of the potato/Brassica cropping system in Central and West Java
Informations sur des projets
2005 - Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research -
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. [...]
Anglais
Production system: Légumes et melons, Racines et tubercules
