Number of documents: 154
Restoring the soil: A Guide for Using Green Manure/Cover Crops to Improve the Food Security of Smallholder Farmers
Training material
2012 - Canadian Foodgrains Bank - Roland Bunch
As world population numbers tick ever higher, ensuring that food production keeps pace is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. Large-scale agriculture will provide part of the solution, but smallholder farmers (farmers in developing countries who often have limited land and capital, are poorly linked to markets and are [...]
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Production system: Crops
Global Farmer field school review challenges FFS programmes
Impact assessment
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - John Pontius
Global FFS review 2012
English
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InPaC-S: Participatory knowledge Integration of Indicators of Soil Quality - Methodological Guide
Training material
2012 - World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), International Center for Tropical Agriculture - Barrios, E., R.J. Delve, M. Bekunda, J. Mowo, J. Agunda, J. Ramisch, M.T. Trejo and R.J. Thomas
The aim of the methodological guide is to constitute an initial step in the empowerment of local communities to develop a local soil quality monitoring and decision-making system for better management of soil resources. This approach uses consensus building to develop practical solutions to soil management constraints identified, as well [...]
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Field Exercise Guide on Fruit Flies Integrated Pest Management
Training material
2011 - Asian Fruit Fly IPM Project - Prabhat Kumar, Abubakar, AlmaLinda, Jan Willem Ketelaar, Vijaysegaran Shanmugam
“Area-wide Fruit Fly Integrated Pest Management in South and Southeast Asia‖ is a regional initiative coordinated by the Asian Institute of Technology with funding support from Taiwan‘s ICDF (www.icdf.org.tw). The project has a focus on adaptation and adoption of fruit fly IPM practices among vegetable and fruit smallholder using Farmer‘s [...]
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts
From Farmers' Field Schools to community IPM. Scaling up the IPM movement
Key documents on FFS
2011 - LEISA Magazine - Russ Dilts
A people-centred IPM movement has grown in Asia since the 1980s, and is now spreading to parts of Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. During this period, many variants have evolved, and continue to evolve, within the specific natural and operational environments of different countries, cultures, and communities. From [...]
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Promises and Realities of Community-Based Agricultural Extension
Technical background material
2010 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - Gershon Feder, Jock R. Anderson, Regina Birner, Klaus Deininger
The paper discusses the conceptual underpinnings of community-based extension approaches, highlights theoretical and practical challenges inherent in their design, and assesses the evidence available so far on their performance. The paper reviews both quantitative and qualitative studies, focusing on three examples that contain important elements of community-based extension: the [...]
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Appraisal of methods to evaluate farmer field schools
Technical background material
2010 - Development in practice - Francesca Mancini & Janice Jiggins
he need to increase agricultural sustainability has induced the government of India to promote the adoption of integrated pest management (IPM). An evaluation of cotton-based conventional and IPM farming systems was conducted in India (2002–2004). The farmers managing the IPM farms had participated in discovery-based ecological training, namely Farmer Field [...]
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Facilitators’ Guide for Running a Farmer Field School: An adaptation for a post emergency recovery programme
Training material
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
This manual has been developed for use by facilitators. The reader should not treat it as a step-by-step guide. Rather, it is a useful resource meant to be read before starting the FFS and then used as a reference along the way. It is not subject specific but provides key [...]
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Strengthening Agricultural Extension and Advisory Systems: Procedures for Assessing, Transforming, and Evaluating Extension Systems
Technical background material
2010 - The World Bank - Burton E. Swanson, Riikka Rajalahti
The purpose of this book is to provide information on how to transform and
strengthen pluralistic agricultural extension and advisory systems in moving
toward the broader goal of increasing farm income and improving rural
livelihoods. The focus of this book is primarily on the technical knowledge,
management skills, and information services that small-scale farm [...]
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Teacher’s manual of Agro-Biodiversity Conservation
Training material
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Mario Corado, Marilyn U. Balagtas, Marut Jatiket
FAO-ICP on IPM for Vegetables and the Thai Education Foundation hopes that this
manual will serve as a useful guide for teachers and agriculture extension workers in integrating environmental issues and concerns in the basic education and farmers’ education programs
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