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

Human society needs to increase food production by an estimated 70% by 2050 to feed an
expected population size that is predicted to be over 9 billion people. Currently, infectious …

Participatory modes of agricultural research have gained significant attention over the last
40 years. While many scholars and practitioners agree that engaging farmers and other …

Archaeology impacts the lives of indigenous, local, or descendant communities. Yet often
these groups have little input to archaeological research, and its results remain inaccessible …

The agricultural innovation systems approach emphasizes the collective nature of
innovation and stresses that innovation is a co-evolutionary process, resulting from …

While the phenomenon of embodied knowledge is becoming integrated into the social
sciences, critical geography, and feminist research agendas it continues to be largely …

This paper evaluates the impact of farmer field schools, an intensive participatory training
program emphasizing integrated pest management. The evaluation focuses on whether …

Like many developing countries, agriculture is seen as the vehicle for development also in
Pakistan. Our study was aimed to identify the perceptions of farmer community towards the …

Public policy in developing countries has failed to invest in educating farmers on how to deal
with variable agro-ecosystems and a changing world. Here we present an assessment of a …

This article examines differences in the research approaches of farmers and scientists and
analyzes how these differences are related to the conditions under which both groups …