Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Use of Communication Media in Changing Rice Farmers’ Pest Management 255 The adoption rate of an innovation depends on its chara ...

256 Governance and Education Acknowledgements The work was supported by the Rice IPM Network coordinated by IRRI and financed by ...

Use of Communication Media in Changing Rice Farmers’ Pest Management 257 Uncle Nam: Uh! Uh! I am very worried about my crop. How ...

258 Governance and Education Uncle Hai: Uh! Uh! By the way, Mr Ha, can you tell us about testing whether early season insecticid ...

Use of Communication Media in Changing Rice Farmers’ Pest Management 259 Escalada, M. M. and Kenmore, P. E. 1988. Communicating ...

260 Governance and Education Payne, J. W., Bettmanm, J. R. and Johnson, E. J. 1992. Behavioral decision research: A constructive ...

13 Landcare and Livelihoods: The Promotion and Adoption of Conservation Farming Systems in the Philippine Uplands R. A. Cramb an ...

262 Governance and Education achieving adoption of sustainable farming practices than strategies involving gov- ernment regulati ...

Landcare and Livelihoods 263 Background The Landcare Programme in the Philippines Independently of the Australian Landcare Pro g ...

264 Governance and Education mentioned above, the ACIAR funded an action research project from 1999 to 2003 to augment and help ...

Landcare and Livelihoods 265 particularly in terms of poverty reduction (Ellis, 2000; Scoones, 1998). While not inconsistent wit ...

266 Governance and Education Woolcock and Narayan (2000, p226) define social capital succinctly as ‘the norms and networks that ...

Landcare and Livelihoods 267 of Landcare, the history of their group, the factors promoting and inhibit ing par- ticipation in t ...

268 Governance and Education (64 per cent of the settlement area), including maize (8000ha), upland rice (2000ha), and other cro ...

Landcare and Livelihoods 269 The difficult marketing environment had lim ited agricultural diversification. Taro, peanuts and be ...

270 Governance and Education emphasis on groups, the Landcare Programme was primarily a programme of extension and training in t ...

Landcare and Livelihoods 271 barriers. The ongoing interest in fruit tree pro duction was largely met through establishment of i ...

272 Governance and Education the per ceived difficulty of maintaining contour hedge rows and lack of ownership rights to the lan ...

Landcare and Livelihoods 273 Table 13.1 Extent of adoption of conservation measures in Barangay Ned, 2002 Conservation measure(s ...

274 Governance and Education Table 13.3 Knowledge of conservation measures reported by farmers in Barangay Ned, by adoption cate ...