Number of documents: 540
Entry points for empowerment
Impact assessment
2004 - CARE Bangladesh - Andrew Bartlett
The issue of empowerment is of increasing relevance to CARE. During the last few years, the organization has been giving greater emphasis to right-based approaches that ‘empower people to claim and exercise their rights and fulfill their responsibilities’. More recently, CARE-Bangladesh has started to plan a new programme for the [...]
English
Production system:
Agricultural Extension: Good Intentions and Hard Realities
Other
2004 - The World Bank Research Observer - Jock R. Anderson, Gershon Feder
What considerations lead policymakers to invest in agricultural extension as a key public responsibility, and what factors and agency incentives explain differences in extension system performance? To help answer these questions, this article provides a framework outlining farmers’ demand for information, the public goods character of extension services, and the [...]
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English
Production system:
An assessment of the impact of Farmer Field Schools (FFS) on integrated pest management dissemination and use: evidence from smallholder cotton farmers in the lowveld area of Zimbabwe
Impact assessment
2004 - . - Edward Mutandwa, Jf Mpangwa
Many technological innovations have been developed to improve agricultural productivity in Sub Sahara. However, the adoption of these innovations has been low. Appropriate extension models are often seen as the missing link between adoption and the achievement of productivity gains. Although, Zimbabwe’s agriculture continues to be a vital cog in [...]
English
Production system: Crops, Others
Management of potato late blight in the Peruvian highlands: evaluating the benefits of Farmer Field Schools and farmer participatory research
Impact assessment
2004 - The American Psytopathological Society - O. Ortiz , K. A. Garrett, J. J. Health, R. Orrego, R. J. Nelson
Farmer field school programs incorporating farmer participatory research (FPR-FFS) have the potential to provide important benefits to their participants and to other farmers who benefit from improved cultivars and management techniques. An FPR-FFS program in San Miguel, Cajamarca, Peru, has been in place since 1999 with an emphasis on management [...]
English
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
The acquisition and diffusion of knowledge: the case of pest management training in Farmer Field Schools, Indonesia
Impact assessment
2004 - Journal of Agricultural Economics - Gershon Feder, Rinku Murgai, and Jaime B. Quizon
Farmer Field Schools (FFS) are an intensive training approach introduced in the last decade in many developing countries to promote knowledge and uptake of ecologically sensible production approaches, and in particular, integrated pest management which minimises pesticide use. Because of the high training cost, the viability of the program depends [...]
English
Production system:
Development of a Farm Field School methodology for Smallholder Dairy Farmers
Key documents on FFS
2004 - International Livestock Research Institute - Bruno Minjauw
English
Production system: Livestock, Large Ruminants
Guía para facilitadores de Escuelas de Campo - Herramientas de Enseñanza
Training material
2004 - Programa Manejo Integrado de Plagas en América Central (Promipac) - Programa Manejo Integrado de Plagas en América Central (Promipac)
Spanish
Production system: Crops, Root/Tuber crops, Legumes
Grounding Agricultural Research in Resource-Poor Farmers' Needs: a Comparative Analysis of Diagnostic Studies in Ghana and Benin
Technical background material
2004 - NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences - E.S. Nederlof, R. Tossou, O. Sakyi-Oawson and O.K. Kossou
Eight researchers from Ghana and Benin, with different backgrounds but all co-operating within the Convergence of Sciences project, conducted diagnostic studies as a first step of their research aimed at developing technologies together with resource-poor farmers. The purpose of including diagnostic studies was to increase the likelihood that the resulting [...]
English
Production system:
Integrated soil, water and nutrient management for Farmer Field Schools with particular emphasis on the semi-arid zones of Zimbabwe
Training material
2004 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
English
Production system:
Capacitación e investigación participativa para el manejo integrado de la marchitez bacteriana de la papa
Training material
2004 - CIP- PROINPA- DFID; Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) - Sylvie Priou, Oscar Barea, Hermeregildo Equise, Pedro Aley
Manual con información validada en Perú y Bolivia sobre la marchitez bacteriana de la papa (MB). Esta guía intenta ser una herramienta flexible para ser usada como recurso para facilitadores de ECAs o de CIALs, o para profesionales de campo que requieran capacitar a agricultores o experimentar con ellos de [...]
Spanish
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
