Having introduced the participatory approach in the second leaflet in ENDURE’s Training in Integrated Pest Mangement (IPM) series, researchers at Hungary’s Szent István University have now produced a third leaflet taking an in-depth look at conducting successful participatory training.
Advanced participatory IPM training draws on the authors’ experience as coordinators of an extensive IPM development programme in Central and Eastern Europe. This programme, a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) project designed to protect maize production from losses caused by Western Corn Rootworm (WCR) through developing and implementing IPM strategies, has given researchers the grounding to spell out the steps that need to be taken to ensure successful participatory training.
In this third leaflet in the Training in IPM series, they set these steps out, and include practical examples of how they accomplished this in the WCR project. For example, Advanced participatory IPM training tackles:
The leaflet has been written by Judit Papp Komáromi, Jozsef Kiss and Zoltan Pálinkás from Szent István University’s Plant Protection Institute, and the same authors also wrote the second leaflet in the Training in Integrated Pest Management series.
In Participatory training: principles, methods and experiences they stress that participatory IPM training does not simply provide information for farmers, but develops both the capacity and knowledge of farmers and of the wider farming community. They identify the reasons why participatory training is a promising option, examine the main characteristics of successful participatory training and explore the reasons why it should be both season-long and conducted in the field.
The first leaflet in the Training in Integrated Pest Management series, Using experience groups to share knowledge and reduce pesticide use , was written by Rolf Thostrup Poulsen and Poul Henning Petersen from the Danish Agricultural Advisory Service. In this leaflet they explore Denmark’s longstanding use of experience groups, first developed in the early 1980s, which have played an important role in helping Danish farmers meet government pesticide reduction targets while remaining profitable.
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