In the 1990s, the integrated pest management (IPM) team for potato late blight (IPM-late blight) at the International Potato Center (CIP) began to address the management of this complex potato disease by combining crop protection with social and behavioral sciences. Since the early 2000s, the tea...
Ortiz, O.
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Nelson, R.
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Olanya, M.
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Thiele, Graham
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Orrego, R.
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Pradel, W.
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Kakuhenzire, R.
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Woldegiorgis, G.
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Gabriel, J.
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Vallejo J.
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Xie, K.
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[Human and technical dimensions of potato integrated pest management using farmer field schools: International Potato Center and partners’ experience with potato late blight management.]
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Human and technical dimensions of potato integrated pest management using farmer field schools: International Potato Center and partners’ experience with potato late blight management.
The increased use of sustainability standards in the international trade in cocoa challenges companies to find effective modes of service delivery to large numbers of small-scale farmers. A case study of the Sustainable Tree Crops Program targeting the small-scale cocoa producers in Côte d’Ivoire...
Muilerman, Sander
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Vellema, Sietze
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[Scaling service delivery in a failed state: cocoa smallholders, Farmer Field Schools, persistent bureaucrats and institutional work in Côte d’Ivoire]
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Scaling service delivery in a failed state: cocoa smallholders, Farmer Field Schools, persistent bureaucrats and institutional work in Côte d’Ivoire
The use of synthetic pesticides among vegetable producers in urban and peri-urban Cotonou, Benin, has been increasing to the extent that certain insect pests have developed resistance to the pesticides. This paper assesses the impact of the farmer field school approach in an integrated pest manag...
Lund, T.
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Sæthre, M.G.
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Nyborg, I.
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Coulibaly, O.
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Rahman, M.H.
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[Farmer field school-IPM impacts on urban and peri-urban vegetable producers in Cotonou, Benin]
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Farmer field school-IPM impacts on urban and peri-urban vegetable producers in Cotonou, Benin
A case study of farmers who attended cocoa integrated crop and pest management (ICPM) farmer field schools in Cameroon and non-participating farmers provides empirical results on areas where there are gaps and mixed results in the FFS literature. FFS provided farmers with new skills and knowledge...
David, S.
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[Learning to think for ourselves: knowledge improvement and social benefits among farmer field school participants in Cameroon]
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Learning to think for ourselves: knowledge improvement and social benefits among farmer field school participants in Cameroon