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Utilizing rabbit, as an alternative protein source and its by-products as an income-generating activity, has been the campaign of dedicated rabbit raisers for many years. We have seen many backyard, commercial, and nutrition education rabbit production projects succeed and fail, although successes have so far surpassed the failures. From observation and evaluation of these past and ongoing ventures, the following criteria are offered as guidelines to insure success in your project.
For Peace Corps, development centers on building local capacity and self-reliance among those who need it most. Accordingly, Peace Crops promotes approximately 35 agricultural extension programs reaching small-scale farming families world-wide.
This manual provides a guide for those who are helping future Peace Corps Volunteers to acquire basic beekeeping skills. The program is designed to help Trainees develop the skills they will need to work and live in another culture as beekeeping extensionists. This is a skills training program; thus, some further in-country training or orientation is presumed.
This manual is not intended to be a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to aquaculture training. Training is a dynamic process, constantly evolving, and always needs to be tailored to the unique circumstances of each program. This includes the needs of the trainees, the objectives of the aquaculture projects, and the personalities and styles of the training staff. The technical sessions described here are meant to serve as guidelines.
The main focus of the program, of course, is the technical training of Peace Corps Volunteers and their Counterparts, to be able to design, build, use and maintain improved food dryers and stores.
The purpose of this manual is to demonstrate how small farmers and garden producers in Jamaica can increase their production. This will increase their income and will help Jamaica achieve the goal of self-reliance in food.
The New Crop Production Handbook combines the best of two previous ICE Reprints, Crop Production Handbook and Guide for Field Crops in the Tropics and Subtropics.
This manual is designed to provide development workers with the information and tools needed either to begin or to improve poultry production. For those who are inexperienced in poultry production, this manual can identify and provide the basic information needed to raise and market poultry successfully.
During 2013-2014, Peace Corps/Senegal and Peace Corps/Washington collaborated on a process evaluation of Peace Corps/Senegal’s Master Farmer (MF) Program. The goal of the evaluation was to determine if the program was reaching its intended objectives to provide MFs with appropriate resources to develop “Master Farms”; support MFs to conduct relevant training; and promote adoption of improved agricultural technologies and management practices by local farmers. The evaluation identified best practices, lessons learned, and overall recommendations for improving the program.
This is a manual for getting started with small-scale beekeeping development projects. The intention is to provide an overview of beekeeping and its possibilities as a tool for development.
This fisheries training manual has been developed for use in pre-service training of prospective Volunteers whose Peace Corps service will be spent working with smallscale, artisanal fishing communities in developing nations. The module, or design, lends itself to both single-country or multi-country use.
Soil and Water Conservation for Small Farm Development in the Tropics focuses on field work. It contains many specific methods and techniques to help small farmers conserve soil and water and to increase crop yields at the same time. It also contains a few vital concepts which give some understanding of the dynamics of erosion. These enable the volunteer to adapt techniques to individual field conditions.
The purpose of this guide is to provide agricultural extensionists with basic information which will help them design plans for the conservation of soils and the management of water runoff in specific agricultural plots. It was written based on experiences with small hillside farms in Honduras, and takes into account the resources and constraints commonly encountered there.