O n a planet with 1.2 billion Internet users, a far less fortunate 1.2 billion people survive on less than a dollar a day. The same technology that has transformed our lives—the lives of the wealthiest people on the planet— remains out of reach and irrelevant for the poorest. As if in sudden recognition of this stark gap, we have witnessed in the past decade an explosion in projects that apply ...

This paper analyzes the interaction between farmer training in pest management and effects on acute pesticide poisoning and populations of beneficial insects in Nicaragua. Using farm level data from Nicaraguan bean growers, including graduates of Farmer Field Schools (FFS), other integrated pest management (IPM) outreach methods, and farmers without exposure to IPM, we found that small farmers ...

Deirdre A. Kelly, John C. Bucuvalas, Estella M. Alonso, Saul J. Karpen, Upton Allen, Michael Green, Douglas Farmer, Eyal Shemesh, and Ruth A. McDonald Liver Unit, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, National Health Service Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Integrated Solid Organ Transplant Program, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, Cincinnati, OH; Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutritio...

challenges of preserving digital objects, metadata about these objects, user experiences with these digital objects, and information about the dynamic relationship between these technologies and culture, will find this book useful.—Anders Selhorst, Guilford Technical Community College. Intended as a handbook for working librarians as well as a textbook for library and information science course...

The mother of your child’s best friend. The man who waited on you at the hardware store last week. Your brother-in-law. The woman in front of you in the check-out line at the market. Your favorite teacher in high school. The homeless woman who’s always at your subway stop. Your doctor. The eight year old son of the family three doors down. Your co-worker at the plant who brings doughnuts for ev...

Bogor is one of the centers taro production, but productivity low. It was caused by use low-quality seeds. The good quality seed will increase and production. Good seeds were uniform in size, clean, free from other varieties, had high viability (vigor). This training aimed at capturing farmer's condition, cultivation technique, knowledge about seed. conducted KTD Saluyu August to September 2022...

At a 50-acre farm in the California Central Coast1 region, I spoke with Alejandra, who personifies the ideal outcome of the beginning farmer movement. Coming to the United States in the mid-1980s, she described herself as the latest of “three generations of migrant farmworkers” from the Mexican state of Guerrero, following in the footsteps of her father and grandfather, who emigrated for contra...

An Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Farmer Field School (FFS) is a field-based activity that lasts a full cropping season. A typical FFS meets once a week and 25-30 farmers participate in an FFS. In addition to group dynamics activity and a special topic session, an FFS emphasizes scientific learning through experimentation. Biological control is discussed and confirmed by carrying out insect z...