INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT

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INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT

• HELPING COMMUNITIES BECOME RESEARCHERS AND
  PROBLEM SOLVERS

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IPM?

• Origins and Background of IPM in Asian Context
• Linking NFE to IPM The Farmer Field School
• Community IPM and Hoped for Sustainability

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IPM Training for Women and Girls

• Farmer Field Schools for Women Girls
• Student Field Schools
• Cambodia
• Farmer Life Schools
• Cambodia
• Field Schools for Out-of-School Girls
• Cambodia

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Farmer Field Schools

• Discovery learning approach
• Farmer to farmer transfer of the IPM innovation
• Demonstration projects
• Farmer-led research
• New associative groupings and applications of
  skills to different sectoral issues

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Collecting specimens for analysis
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The AESA process in the study area discussing,
writing and drawing the report and making
decisions.
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Design Issues in FFS for Women

• Womens literacy levels and lack of technical
  agricultural training/exposure to technical
  terminology
• Demands on womens time agricultural production,
  domestic work and child care
• Constraints of mixed-gender participation, caste,
  opportunity costs and location of FFS

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Design Responses

• Linking FFS to livelihood improvement and savings
  and credit groups
• Adaptations in the curriculum
• Community support committees
• Opportunities for immediate application of
  knowledge and skills
• Opportunities for self and group assessment

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Issues Related to Application of Learnings

• Womens decision making authority (development of
  a gender analysis matrix on rice crop decision
  making)
• Literacy levels and participation
• Linkages with other development programs
• Community support mechanisms
• Follow up with individual farmer trainees

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Student Field Schools in Cambodia

• Improve environmental management and farming
  practices
• Improve pedagogy
• Improve school governance
• Life skills agenda at the national level

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Local farmers participate in the SFS teaching
team.
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Student Field Schools in Cambodia 1998-2006

• Project trains primary school teachers to teach
  IPM principles and practices to students through
  hands-on student field schools
• Field schools combine classroom instruction with
  systematic field studies over a cropping season
• Curriculum is being institutionalized in general
  education curriculum

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Students set up insect zoo experiments to learn
about characteristics of insects.
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Farmer Life Schools Staying Alive on Route 5

• Farmers study problems that threaten their
  livelihoods, weigh available options and make
  decisions
• Link farmer knowledge and experience with
  ecology, group organization, and discovery
  learning with Human Ecosystem Analysis
• FLS are run by farmers themselves

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Sustainable Farming and Life Skills for Out of
School Girls

• Introduces out-of-school girls to sustainable
  farming practices and broad environmental issues
  (elements of SFS)
• Farmer as researcher concepts from FFS are used
  to investigate health of communities, risks and
  opportunities
• Builds self-confidence to participate in family
  and community decision-making

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Challenges in IPM Training for Women and Girls

• Sustainability issues
• Literacy levels
• Attitudinal issues toward womens and girls
  roles in decision making
• Collaboration with government line agencies
• Funding