Empowering Farmers: The Philippines National Integrated Pest Management Program (Second Edition)

This monograph highlights the success of KASAKALIKASAN as a human resource development program of the Department of Agriculture in collaboration with local government units and nongovernment organizations. KASALIKASAN, the Philippines National Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program, seeks to assist farmers in developing their ability to make critical and informed decisions that render their farming systems more productive, profitable, and sustainable. Through Farmer Field Schools, the Program has been extraordinarily successful in applying an experiential learning approach to enable farmers to practice IPM. The training process is predicated on farmers’ experiences and capabilities to discover and master scientific management skills.