Number of documents: 563
Farmer' Awareness and Perceptions of the Effect of Pesticides on their Health
Case study
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Pan Sodavy, Mam Sitha, Robert Nugent, Helen Murphy
This paper reports the results of a pilot qualitative study in 3 vegetable growing areas of Cambodia: Kandal and Siem Riep provinces and areas around Phnom Penh. The aim of the pilot was to assess how farmers feel pesticides affect their own and their family’s health, determine what [...]
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Claim no easy victories: Evaluating the Pesticide Industry's Global Safe Use Campaign
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2000 - World Development - Gerd Walter-Echols, Harry van der Wulp
The pesticide industry's Global Safe Use campaign has reportedly produced a
dramatic decline in pesticide-related health and environmental problems in Guatemala. This paper challenges this claim, reanalyzing existing data and further evaluating claims of the campaign's efficacy.
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Farmer field schools and local agricultural research committees: complementary platforms for integrated decision-making in sustainable agriculture
Technical background material
2000 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Ann R. Braun, Graham Thiele and María Fernández
Farmer field schools (FFS) and local agricultural research committees (CIALs) are participatory platforms for improving decision-making capacity and stimulating local innovation for sustainable agriculture. CIALs are a permanent agricultural research service staffed by a team of four or more volunteer farmers elected by the community. The committees create a link [...]
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Reconceptualizing Participation for Sustainable Rural Development towards a Negotiation Approach
Other
2000 - Development and Change - Cees Leeuwis
In many popular intervention methodologies aimed at stimulating sustainable rural development (in the widest possible sense) the idea of ‘participation’ is a leading principle. This article will demonstrate that the process in which actors are supposed to participate is often thought of as being a process of planning, decision‐making and/or [...]
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Health Effects of Pesticide use among Indonesian Women Farmers. Part II: Reproductive Health outcomes
Case study
2000 - Journal of Agromedicine - Helen Murphy, Arik Sanusi, Russ Dilts, S. Yuliantiningsih, N. Hirschhorn, M. Djajadisastra
A study conducted on female spray operators and a non operators to assess the reproductive impacts of pesticide use.
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A Manual to Facilitate Participatory Planning Activities to Empower Community IPM
Training material
1999 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Mufid A. Busyairi
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Report of the Integrated Pest Management in Rice - Training of Trainers and Farmers’ Field School
Training material
1999 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Cesar Galvan and Soehardi
English
Production system: Cereals
Science and Farmers: IPM by farmers
Case study
1999 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Programme for Community IPM in Asia - Peter A. C. Ooi
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A Village Planning Meeting, Yen Phuong Village, Vietnam
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1999 - The Vietnam National IPM Programme - The Vietnam National IPM Programme
Document describing a village planning meeting in Vietnam.
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Interaction between Scientists and Nonscientists in Community-based Watershed Management: Emergence of the Concept of Stream Naturalization
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1999 - Environmental Management - Bruce L Rhoads, David Wilson, Michael Urban, Edwin E Herricks
The authors' personal experience in watershed planning and decision making in the agricultural Midwest is described to illustrate how: (1) formalization of the process of community-based management is not sufficient to guarantee that local people will meaningfully consider scientific information and opinion when making decisions about watersheds, and (2) genuine [...]
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