Investing in Farmers--The Impacts of Farmer Field Schools in Relation to Integrated Pest Management

By H. Berg, J. Jiggins. 2007

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Insect Science

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Digital Green: Participatory video for agricultural extension (2007, methodology): “The FFS model is claimed to have spread the adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices in Asia by graduating more than four million farmers in 50 developing countries [ 9 ].”
Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in East Africa (2012, background): “Evaluation is complex because of methodological disagreements, diversity of parameters, and different perspectives on impact (van den Berg and Jiggins 2007).”
Impact of training vegetable farmers in Bangladesh in integrated pest management (IPM) (2017, background): “Van den Berg and Jiggins (2007) reviewed 25 studies of IPM training through farmer field schools and found relatively strong evidence for pesticide reductions, particularly in Asia.”
Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems. (2014, background): “Farmer field schools play a central role in training farmers in IPM, and have been shown to result in improved outcomes (Van den Berg and Jiggins, 2007; Pretty et al., 2011; Settle et al., 2014).”
Maize Revolutions in Sub-Saharan Africa (2011, background): “The schools have been introduced, mostly on a pilot basis, in several African countries, and their scope has been broadened to other practices and technologies (van den Berg and Jiggins, 2007).”
Strengthening Pluralistic Agricultural Information Delivery Systems in India (2009, background): “The mass media, public agricultural extension and advisory services had played important roles in introducing and disseminating new technologies and farming practices to farmers (Berg and Jiggins, 2007).”
The Empowerment Route to Well-being: An Analysis of Farmer Field Schools in East Africa (2012, background): “Few studies have focused specifically on empowerment and FFS, but wider developmental benefits are reported in terms of poverty reduction and human and collective action (Mancini, van Bruggen, & Jiggins, 2006; Van den Berg & Jiggins, 2007; Züger, 2004).”
Pest Management in Food Systems: An Economic Perspective (2012, background): “A number of studies examine the success of particular FFS projects with contentious results (94, 95).”