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The Farmer Field School: a method for enhancing the role of rural communities in malaria control?
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Malaria has strong linkages with agriculture, and farmers in malarious regions have a central position in creating or controlling the conditions that favour disease transmission. An interdisciplinary and integrated approach is needed to involve farmers and more than one sector in control efforts. It is suggested that malaria control can benefit from a complementary intervention in rural development, the Farmer Field School (FFS) on Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This is a form of education that uses experiential learning methods to build farmers' expertise, and has proven farm-level and empowerment effects. The benefits of incorporating malaria control into the IPM curriculum are discussed. An example of a combined health-agriculture curriculum, labeled Integrated Pest and Vector Management (IPVM), developed in Sri Lanka is presented. Institutional ownership and support for IPVM could potentially be spread over several public sectors requiring a process for institutional learning and reform.
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One relevant model is the Farmer Field School on Integrated Pest Management, developed and promoted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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Metadata
- Authors
- van den Berg, H., & Knols, B. G.
- Affiliations
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (AT)
- Corresponding author
- van den Berg, Henk
- ORCID
- Knols, Bart GJ
- Venue
- Malaria Journal
- Published
- 2006-01-19
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-3
- ISSN
- 1475-2875 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC1382236
- OpenAlex
- W1616095096
- Cited by
- 56
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Malaria Journal (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Malaria Research and Control
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Dengue and Mosquito Control Research
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Development and Management
- Keywords
- farmer field schools, malaria control, integrated pest management, farmer education, experiential learning, rural development, vector control, institutional learning, Sri Lanka
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Animals, Community Participation, Curriculum, Developing Countries, Humans, Malaria, Mosquito Control, Pest Control, Oryza, Rural Population, Sri Lanka, Problem-Based Learning, Wetlands, Consumer Health Information
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