Sending Farmers Back To School

Author : Gershon Feder,Rinku Murgai,Jaime B. Quizon
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Agricultural extension work
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sending Farmers Back to School by Gershon Feder,Rinku Murgai,Jaime B. Quizon Pdf

The authors evaluate the impact of farmer field schools, an intensive participatory training program emphasizing integrated pest management. Their evaluation focuses on whether participation in the program has improved yields and reduced pesticide use among graduates and their neighbors who may have gained knowledge from graduates through informal communications. The authors use panel data covering the period 1991-99 in Indonesia. Their analysis, employing a modified "difference-in-differences" model, indicates that the program did not have significant effects on the performance of graduates and their neighbors. The authors discuss several plausible explanations for this outcome and suggest recommendations for improvements.

Author : Gershon Feder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1290704432

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Sending Farmers Back to School by Gershon Feder Pdf

Feder, Murgai, and Quizon evaluate the impact of farmer field schools, an intensive participatory training program emphasizing integrated pest management. Their evaluation focuses on whether participation in the program has improved yields and reduced pesticide use among graduates and their neighbors who may have gained knowledge from graduates through informal communications. The authors use panel data covering the period 1991-99 in Indonesia. Their analysis, employing a modified quot;difference-in-differencesquot; model, indicates that the program did not have significant effects on the performance of graduates and their neighbors. The authors discuss several plausible explanations for this outcome and suggest recommendations for improvements.This paper - a product of Rural Development, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to analyze the impact of extension and education approaches.

Author : Kumar, Anjani,Verma, Smriti,Prasad, Amit Mohan,Kishore, Avinash,Saroj, Sunil
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Million Farmers School: An evaluation of its impact on farmers’ agricultural knowledge in Uttar Pradesh, India by Kumar, Anjani,Verma, Smriti,Prasad, Amit Mohan,Kishore, Avinash,Saroj, Sunil Pdf

The Million Farmers School (MFS) is an innovative extension program initiated by the Department of Agriculture in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2017. Twice in a year, the department deploys its entire extension machinery to organize nearly 15,000 training programs for about a million farmers across all districts of the state. Unlike traditional extension services, MFS integrates various facets of agricultural knowledge into a packaged product and delivers through village-level trainings where printed material on the topics of training are also distributed among participants. This study presents early findings of a process evaluation, involving assessments of program design, implementation strategies, and estimation of benefits from program participation. In addition to consultation with public officials and community organizations, a state-level representative survey was conducted on a sample of both participating and non-participating households. The early results based on matching and instrumental variable methods—suggest that knowledge outcomes are significantly better among participants vis-à-vis non-participants. The results are robust to different model specifications. The study also qualitatively assesses various aspects of the program’s design and implementation, highlighting the constraints and challenges it faces and offers implementation advice for greater efficacy in its future course.

Author : Satoshi Yamazaki,Budy P. Resosudarmo,Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Economics Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Agricultural education
ISBN : 1740320972

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Does Sending Farmers Back to School Have an Impact? a Spatial Economitric Approach by Satoshi Yamazaki,Budy P. Resosudarmo,Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Economics Division Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : International Potato Center
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Impact Assesment of Farmer Field Schools in cajamarca, Peru: An Economic Evaluation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789291462278

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Community farmer field school animal health facilitators: hybridizing private animal health care and capacity building in remote pastoralist areas by Anonim Pdf

Author : World Bank,World Bank Staff
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821350420

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The World Bank Research Program 2001 by World Bank,World Bank Staff Pdf

This publication is a compilation of reports on research projects initiated, under way, or completed in fiscal year 2001 (July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001). The abstracts cover 150 research projects from the World Bank and grouped under 11 major headings including poverty and social development, health and population, education, labor and employment, environment, infrastructure and urban development, and agriculture and rural development. The abstracts detail the questions addressed, the analytical methods used, the findings to date and their policy implications. Each abstract identifies the expected completion date of each project, the research team, and reports or publications produced.

Author : Ross P. Buckley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139499576

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Debt-for-Development Exchanges by Ross P. Buckley Pdf

Debt-for-development exchanges are an important financing tool for development. They make debt relief more politically and practically attractive to donor countries and serve the development of recipient countries through the cancellation of external debt and the funding of important development projects. This book commences by chronicling the emergence of debt-for-development exchanges from their forebears, debt-equity exchanges, and analyzes why debt for development suffers from very few of the problems that plagued debt equity. The book analyzes the different types of debt-for-development exchanges and the different ways they have been used by all donor nations that have made use of them. The book then explores a range of critical perspectives on exchanges and concludes by considering a wide range of new and innovative uses for the funds generated by exchanges.

Author : Ola Tveitereid Westengen,Tone Winge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780429017018

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Farmers and Plant Breeding by Ola Tveitereid Westengen,Tone Winge Pdf

This book presents the history of, and current approaches to, farmer-breeder collaboration in plant breeding, situating this work in the context of sustainable food systems, as well as national and international policy and law regimes. Plant breeding is essential to food production, climate-change adaptation and sustainable development. This book brings together experienced practitioners and researchers involved in collaborative breeding programmes across a diversity of crops and agro-ecologies around the world. Case studies include collaborative sorghum and pearl millet breeding for water-stressed environments in West Africa, participatory rice breeding for intensive rice farming in the Mekong Delta, and evolutionary participatory quinoa breeding for organic agriculture in North America. While outlining the challenges, the volume also highlights the positive impacts, such as yield increases, farmers’ empowerment in the innovation and development processes, contributions to maintenance of crop genetic diversity and adaptation to climate change. This collection offers a range of perspectives on enabling conditions for farmer–breeder collaboration in plant breeding in relation to biodiversity agreements such as the Plant Treaty, trade agreements and related intellectual property rights (IPR) regimes, and national seed policies and laws. Relevant to a wide audience, including practitioners with experience in plant breeding and management of crop genetic resources and those with a broader interest in agriculture and development, as well as students of international cooperation and development, this volume is a timely addition to the literature.

Author : Van Campenhout, Bjorn,Spielman, David J.,Lecoutere, Els
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) to provide agricultural advice to smallholder farmers: Experimental evidence from Uganda by Van Campenhout, Bjorn,Spielman, David J.,Lecoutere, Els Pdf

Author : Nina Lilja,John Dixon,Deborah Eade
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317986850

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Participatory Research and Gender Analysis by Nina Lilja,John Dixon,Deborah Eade Pdf

Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination. Its effective application therefore requires ongoing dialogue with and the strong engagement of men and women from poor marginal farming communities. This book discusses opportunities afforded by effective knowledge pathways linking researchers and farmers, underpinned by participatory research and gender analysis. It sets out practices and debates in gender-sensitive participatory research and technology development, concentrating on the empirical issues of implementation, impact assessment, and institutionalisation of approaches for the wider development and research community. It includes six full-length chapters and eight brief practical notes and is enhanced by an annotated resources list of relevant publications, organisations, and websites adding to the portfolio of approaches and tools discussed by the contributors. Most of the 33 contributing authors work in the specialised agencies that form part of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). This book was published as a special issue of Development in Practice.

Author : I. Harbaugh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137487162

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Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America by I. Harbaugh Pdf

Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America explores the drivers of agricultural displacement in Latin America and argues that government support is essential to help small farmers gain the skills, financial capital, and opportunities needed to transition to a profitable alternative in the non-farm sector.

Author : James Sumberg,John Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136450259

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Contested Agronomy by James Sumberg,John Thompson Pdf

The dramatic increases in food prices experienced over the last four years, and their effects of hunger and food insecurity, as well as human-induced climate change and its implications for agriculture, food production and food security, are key topics within the field of agronomy and agricultural research. Contested Agronomy addresses these issues by exploring key developments since the mid-1970s, focusing in particular on the emergence of the neoliberal project and the rise of the participation and environmental agendas, taking into consideration how these have had profound impacts on the practice of agronomic research in the developing world especially over the last four decades. This book explores, through a series of case studies, the basis for a much needed ‘political agronomy’ analysis that highlights the impacts of problem framing and narratives, historical disjunctures, epistemic communities and the increasing pressure to demonstrate ‘success’ on both agricultural research and the farmers, processors and consumers it is meant to serve. Whilst being a fascinating and thought-provoking read for professionals in the Agriculture and Environmental sciences, it will also appeal to students and researchers in agricultural policy, development studies, geography, public administration, rural sociology, and science and technology studies.

Author : Geoff Desa,Xiangping Jia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031185601

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Social Innovation and Sustainability Transition by Geoff Desa,Xiangping Jia Pdf

This book uses a historical and modern lens to reimagine the role that Extension could potentially play in catalyzing reciprocal, co-learning relationships between Land-Grant Universities and their diverse local constituencies. The establishment of statewide extension systems was once seen as a way to ensure that Land-Grant Universities would be accessible and responsive to all of a state’s residents. Extension systems continue to offer a front-door to a major public university in almost every county of the United States, but they tend to be viewed primarily as a way to translate science or distribute information from the university to the public. This books argues for the importance of Extension and shows that we are conceiving of this system too narrowly. Only by retelling the stories of the Extension and getting people to see themselves as part of the story can we imagine a different future in which state universities and land-grant colleges engage more authentically and equitably in two-way relationships with their local constituents.in catalyzing reciprocal, co-learning relationships between Land-Grant Universities and their diverse local constituencies. Chapter “Palatable disruption: the politics of plant milk", chapter “Feeding the melting pot: inclusive strategies for the multi-ethnic city", chapter "A carrot isn't a carrot isn't a carrot: tracing value in alternative practices of food exchange", chapter “Virtualizing the 'good life': reworking narratives of agrarianism and the rural idyll in a computer game" and chapter "'Workable utopias' for social change through inclusion and empowerment? Community supported agriculture (CSA) in Wales as social innovation" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license via link.springer.com.

Author : Keijiro Otsuka,Yukichi Mano,Kazushi Takahashi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811980466

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Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa by Keijiro Otsuka,Yukichi Mano,Kazushi Takahashi Pdf

This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team’s inquiries into determinants and consequences of new technology adoption in rice farming in seven countries in this region. Rigorous statistical analyses are carried out by using valuable household data of rice farmers. The book is actually sequel to the two earlier books on the same subject published by Springer and edited by K. Otsuka and D.F. Larson, An African Green Revolution published in 2013 and In Pursuit of an African Green Revolution in 2016. The main message of the first book was that rice is the most promising cereal crop in SSA because of the high transferability of Asian rice technology, whereas that of the second book was that rice cultivation training programs are effective in significantly increasing rice yield in SSA. This third book has wider coverage in terms of topics, study periods, and study sites. It continues to show the significant impacts of rice cultivation training on productivity and newly demonstrates the high sustainability of the productivity impact of the training and the existence of spillover effects from trainees to other farmers by using panel data. We newly assess the important role of mechanization in intensification of rice farming, high returns to large-scale irrigation schemes, and the critical role of rice millers in improving the quality of milled rice. Based on these studies, this book provides clear pathways toward full-fledged Green Revolution in rice farming in sub-Saharan Africa.