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Over the past eight years, CARE-Bangladesh has been developing a set of sustainable agriculture projects to improve production in rice-based farming systems in this country. These efforts have contributed to an emergent programme to increase food security for poor and marginal farmers. The programme raises agricultural productivity by diversifying agroecosystems and optimizing yields, reducing costs [...]

In an effort to mainstream HIV resilience building in the agricultural sector, UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Project, in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programme, has pioneered an experiment called the Farmer Life Schools.

This thesis will deal with the issue of low adoption rates regarding improved agricultural technology by vulnerable farmers; the barriers and constraints to adoption; and on how to reach an understanding of how to reduce or mitigate such constraints. The thesis will apply a general theoretical discussion of the theories on food security and [...]

This article presents ten lessons learnt from the implementation of FFS in the Andes, South America.

The Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) sector of CARE is exploring new ways to enhance women's participation and to empower them through aquaculture programs. Farmer field schools, participatory monitoring and evaluation, children's participation initiatives, family approaches and action research are some of the approaches that have been found to be effective [...]

In many popular intervention methodologies aimed at stimulating sustainable rural development (in the widest possible sense) the idea of ‘participation’ is a leading principle. This article will demonstrate that the process in which actors are supposed to participate is often thought of as being a process of planning, decision‐making and/or [...]

Document describing a village planning meeting in Vietnam.

To many scientists and researchers, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is just about pests . Yet this overlooks the important role IPM can play in human resource development. Whilst insect pests are naturally important entry points, these open the door to a more important aspect of IPM, that of human resource [...]