Number of documents: 157
Ressource Manual on Integrated Production and Pest Management (IPPM) in Vegetables
Training material
2005 - World Education (INGO) Philippines, Inc. - World Education (INGO) Philippines, Inc.
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
Cowpea, Farmer Field Schools and farmer-to-farmer extension: a Benin case study
Case study
2005 - Agricultural Research & Extension Network (AGREN) - Nicholas Q.R. Nathaniels
This paper presents the findings of a short qualitative study. It showed that pilot cowpea Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in Benin were a vital source of new skills and information, integrating a number of existing knowledge sharing networks of rural men and women.
English
Production system:
Las Escuelas de Campo para Agricultores (ECAs) en el PESA-Nicaragua. Una experiencia participativa de extensión para contribuir a la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en Nicaragua
Case study
2005 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Ramiro Ortiz
Spanish
Production system:
Beyond Agriculture: Making Markets Work for the Poor. Theme 1: Building Linkages and Enhancing Trust between Small-Scale Rural Producers, Buyers in Growing Markets and Suppliers of Critical Inputs
Technical background material
2005 - . - Rupert Best, Shaun Ferris and Antonio Schiavone
In the context of the Millennium Development Goals of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
Global -
English
Production system:
An effective approach of safe vegetable production: a case of community vegetable integrated pest management in Kunming city, Yunan province
Case study
2005 - National Agro-technical Extension and Service Center, Ministry of Agriculture, China - Puyun Yang, Ping Li, Elske van de Fliert and Xinmei Hu
This paper describes a case study in small producer system in the Petri-urban areas of Kunming city, Yunnan province on an approach of farmer participatory vegetable community IPM development. The vegetable community IPM development was composted of farmer education, technological development, farmers’ self organization, alliance building and policy supporting. [...]
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
Agricultural development among poor farmers in Soroti district, Uganda: Impact assessment of agricultural technology, farmer empowerment and changes in opportunity structures
Impact assessment
2005 - Danish Institute for International Studies - Esbern Friis-Hansen
This paper is based on participatory development research carried out in Soroti district of Uganda with the aim to assess the impact of agricultural development among poor farmers. The central argument in this study is that a combination of farmer empowerment and innovation through experiential learning in FFS groups and [...]
English
Production system:
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:
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:
Impact assessment of Farmer Field Schools in Cajamarca, Perú: an Economic Evaluation
Impact assessment
2004 - International Potato Center (CIP) - Regula Züger
Economic evaluation of the Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) in the Cajamarca Department (Peru) was undertaken to help determine whether agricultural extension via FFSs can contribute to poverty alleviation. Farmer Field Schools involving a number of important crops have already been evaluated at other sites around the world. These studies reported [...]
English
Production system: Root/Tuber crops