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Este documento se divide en tres grandes áreas: La primera porte contiene temas sobre principios, diseño, preparación, implementación, evaluación y seguimiento de ECAs. Como sabemos, para implementar una ECA el facilitador debe pasar primero por un proceso de capacitación de por lo menos tres meses, en ese sentido, esta parte será [...]

The week long Training of Trainers (TOT) course on Farmer Field Schools (FFS) held at CMRT, Egerton University for sixty five researchers, extensionists and farmers was made possible through the sponsorship of the Rockefeller Foundation (RF), that has supported Soil Management Project (SMP) and Legume Research Network Project (LRNP) of [...]

Farmer field schools (FFS) and local agricultural research committees (CIALs) are participatory platforms for improving decision-making capacity and stimulating local innovation for sustainable agriculture. CIALs are a permanent agricultural research service staffed by a team of four or more volunteer farmers elected by the community. The committees create a link [...]

The authors' personal experience in watershed planning and decision making in the agricultural Midwest is described to illustrate how: (1) formalization of the process of community-based management is not sufficient to guarantee that local people will meaningfully consider scientific information and opinion when making decisions about watersheds, and (2) genuine [...]

The purpose of this case is to present a description and analysis of the development achieved by IPM trained farmers in one sub-district. The case reveals IPM farmers in the context of not only IPM field activities, but, because IPM is a community affair, in the context of their communities. The information presented in [...]

The article discusses the role of women in agriculture in Vietnam and focuses on the participation of women farmers in the IPM Farmer Field School (FFS). The article is based on the findings of a study " Women and IPM in Vietnam" carried out in 1994 by the Hanoi based [...]