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This publication examines five cases of farmer field research in Indonesia.

Este estudio intenta analizar algunas experiencias relevantes de innovación con productores de pequeña escala, destacando eventuales enfoques específicos que busquen la equidad de género.

The agricultural extension service in Uganda has in the last 40 years used a variety of approaches to disseminate technologies developed by researchers and other partners. These included regulatory, advisory and educational approaches. The regulatory and advisory approaches were top-bottom and non-participatory in nature.

Using survey-data from Peru, this paper evaluates the impact of a pilot farmerfield-school (FFS) program on farmers’ knowledge of integrated pest management (IPM) practices related to potato cultivation. We use both regression analysis controlling for participation and a propensity score matching approach to create a comparison group similar to the FFS [...]

This book presents experiences and successful case studies of integrated pest management (IPM) from developed and developing countries and from major international centres and programmes. It contains 39 chapters by many contributors addressing themes such as: emerging issues in IPM, including biotechnology, pesticide policies and socioeconomic considerations (8 chapters).

The International Potato Center used the farmer field school (FFS) model in several of its research and development activities on potato and sweet potato integrated pest, disease and crop management as a platform for participatory research (PR) and/or farmer learning. Four approaches are roughly distinguished based on how the FFS [...]

This paper uses an innovations systems framework to analyze the ways social capital in the overall agricultural and natural resources innovation system in Nepal has increased far beyond what was originally expected in the project proposal.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the introduction of the FFS approach to Africa and, through use of case study material, to highlight some of the successes achieved and difficulties encountered in the expanding use of the approach. Following a brief look at some of [...]