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The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach has been very successful and witnessed a strong expansion in many areas beyond crop production. Notwithstanding this success, the adoption of FFS in national extension often remains problematic and FFS activities have often been implemented in the margin of national institutions with strong reliance [...]

Learn about Good Return's Farmer Field School program run with our partner Credit Union Keling Kumang (CUKK) in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The program aims to improve the incomes of smallholder palm oil farmers by using sustainable agricultural techniques. This allows them to mitigate their environmental impact, improve the health of [...]

The Regional Rice Initiative (RRI), a pilot of the Strategic Objective 2 “Sustainable Management of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries” of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, is designed to focus on the importance of goods and services produced by and available from rice ecosystems, and to identify [...]

In addition to an always valuable inter-disciplinary approach in problem solving in agricultural production, a trans-disciplinary collaboration between farmers on the one hand and scholars and scientists on the other is beneficial for both parties as they reach across the voids between their very different realms and idioms. We have [...]

The Adivasi Fisheries Project, aimed at diversifying livelihood options for resource-poor Adivasi (ethnic) communities in the North and Northwest of Bangladesh, was implemented during 2007–9. Aquaculture and related technologies were introduced to a total of 3594 resource-poor Adivasi households. Baseline and end-line surveys were applied to assess the changes in [...]

This publication documents impact assessment work done on FAO supported community education for pesticide risk reduction efforts implemented through National IPM Programmes in Cambodia and Vietnam during the 2007-2012 period. Impact assessment on investments in capacity building and education programmes is notoriously difficult. Using science-based research methodologies, the impact assessment [...]

The article focuses on a sustainable intensification of agricultural production without the dependence of pesticides. It takes into account the work that FAO has done with Asian governments in improving IPM strategies.

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