Demystifying farmers' entomological and pest management knowledge: A methodology for assessing the impacts on knowledge from IPM-FFS and NES interventions

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 153-176

  Price, Lisa Leimar ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entomology; Environmental education; Ethnobiology; Ethnoecology; Farmer participatory education; Integrated pest management; Knowledge intensive interventions; Methodology; Philippines; Rice agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001499374     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011163307355     Document Type: Review

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