This Campbell systematic review examines the effectiveness of farmer field schools in
improving intermediate outcomes (such as knowledge and pesticide use) and final …

Integration of indigenous knowledge and ethnoscientific approaches into contemporary
frameworks for conservation and sustainable management of natural resources will become …

Intercultural science education requires negotiations between knowledge systems and of
tensions between them. Building on ethnographic fieldwork and educational interventions in …

Farmers all over the world perform experiments, and have done so since long before
modern experimental science and its recognized forerunners. There is a rich …

While pests are a major constraint in vegetable production in many parts of Southern Africa,
little is known about farmers' knowledge and management practices. A survey was …

Pest management research within the context of agroforestry is in its infancy, and it is often
difficult to say when a particular pest justifies investment in research to establish facts …

Since the 1980s there has been a decline or stagnation in public expenditure on agriculture
in most developing countries (Akroyd & Smith, 2007). Likewise, the proportion of official …

In subsistence farming systems of the developing world, adoption of resource-conserving
practices such as integrated pest management (IPM) is often strikingly low. This has partially …

Abstract During the post‐Green Revolution period of rice research at the International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI), a wide range of innovative methodologies were introduced by …

Much IPM technology for rice has been developed at research stations in Asia but on the
balance little of it has been adopted by farmers who find many of the recommendations …