Number of documents: 56
Growing Up in the REAL World
Case study
2004 - LEISA Magazine - Andrew Bartlett and Marut Jatiket
REAL stands for Rural Ecology and Agricultural Livelihoods. REAL Education is an integrated learning process in which school children explore what is happening on local farms, gain an understanding of ecology, and develop critical thinking skills with respect to environmental, health and social problems.
REAL Education is now an international movement, [...]
English
Production system:
Environmental educational for Poor Farmers
Impact assessment
2004 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Peter A. C. Ooi - Gerd Walter-Echols - Dai Weidong - Alma Linda Morales - Abubakar Lim - Guan Soon Palaniswamy - Pachagounder Manzoor - H. Soomro - Cesar Galvan - Francesca Mancini - Rikke Petersen - Kevin Kamp
More than half of the world’s cotton is produced by Asian farmers, the majority of them small landholders with plot sizes of less than one-half hectare. Within Asia, cotton production is diverse and this diversity manifests itself among the countries participating in the FAO-EU Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Programme for [...]
English
Production system: Crops, Others
Farmers' Life School manual
Training material
2004 - United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Education - Ou Chhaya, Jacques du Guerny, Richard Geeves, Masaya Kato, Lee-Nah Hsu
This manual encourages the agricultural sector, AIDS programmes and NGOs to assist farming communities in their efforts to build their resilience and reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.
English
Production system:
Eggplant Integrated Pest Management : an Ecological Guide
Training material
2003 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Frederike Praasterink
The objective of this ecological guide is to provide general technical background information on eggplant production, supplemented with field experiences from the National IPM programmes connected to FAO’s Vegetable IPM Programme, and from related organizations active in farmer participatory IPM.
The information in the guides is not specific for one [...]
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts
El efecto de los sistemas institucionales en la calidad de las ECAs: el caso de un proyecto MIP en el Perú
Case study
2003 - LEISA Revista de Agroecología - Alfredo Malarín
Spanish
Production system:
ECA para cultivos arbóreos
Case study
2003 - LEISA Revista de Agroecología - James Mangan , Margaret S. Mangan
El aplicar el enfoque ECA al MIP para árboles perennes ha requerido varias adaptaciones, incluyendo cambios en el contenido y duración de la ECA, y en los métodos empleados en el Análisis del Agro-Ecosistema (AAE). Este artículo está basado en nuestras experiencias con el proyecto Estado del Cultivo con MIP [...]
Spanish
Production system: Fruits and Nuts, Beverages/Spice crops
Guía para facilitar el desarrollo de Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores - Manejo integrado de las principales enfermedades e insectos de la papa - Caso San Miguel, Cajamarca, Perú
Training material
2002 - CIP-CARE - Mario Bazán (CARE), Reneé Castillo (CARE), Cristina Fonseca (CIP), Aziz Lagnaoui (CIP), Julio César León (CARE), Willmar León (CARE), Víctor León (CARE), Rebecca Nelson (CIP), Ricardo Orrego (CIP), Oscar Ortiz (CIP), María Palacios (CIP), Esaú Salazar (CA
Spanish
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
Diversifying Rice-based Systems and Empowering Farmers in Bangladesh Using the Farmer Field-school Approach
Case study
2002 - Earthscan Publications - Norman Uphoff
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 [...]
English
Production system: Cereals
Tea IPM Ecological Guide
Training material
2001 - CIDSE - Michael R. Zeiss, Koen den Braber
This is a trainer's reference guide on crop development, major agronomic practices, disease and insect management, written for small-holders' tea cultivation in northern Vietnam. The guide will also be of interest to tea producers in other parts of the world who want to apply an ecological approach to crop [...]
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Field Guide on Peanuts
Training material
2000 - Vietnam National IPM Programme - Alma Linda C. Morales Abubakar
From discussions with farmer groups that attended a Farmer Field School we learned that in many cases the groups are interested in continuing activities and studies. One of the areas that farmer groups are interested to study more is peanuts. In this field guide field studies and special topics on [...]
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts