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		Curriculum for Participatory Learning and Action Research (PLAR) for Integrated Rice Management (IRM) in Inland Valleys of Sub-Saharan Africa: Facilitator’s Manual Defoer, T., M.C.S. Wopereis, P. Idinoba, K.L. Kadisha, S. Diack and M. Gaye
		Foreword

		1.Introduction 1.1 Why this manual? 1.2 Basic principles of integrated rice management (IRM)
		2.Participatory Learning and Action Research (PLAR) curriculum 2.1 Principles and objectives of the PLAR approach 2.2 Key elements of the PLAR-IRM approach
		3.Plan, prepare and implement PLAR-IRM 3.1 The PLAR-IRM team 3.2 Site selection 3.3 Farmer selection 3.4 Planning of sessions
Module 1		Starting the PLAR-IRM curriculum
Module 2		Mapping an inland-valley catchment area
Module 3		Making a transect walk in the inland-valley lowlands and the catchment area
Module 4		Maintaining inland-valley lowland infrastructures for better water management
Module 5		Using good seed and rice varieties
Module 6		Planning good crop-management practices
Module 7		Preparing the rice field
Module 8		Establishing a nursery
Module 9		Planning land preparation, nursery establishment and transplanting
Module 10		Maintaining soil quality
Module 11		Making field observations: Preparing the field and establishing the nursery
Module 12		Transplanting and establishing experimental plots
Module 13		Assessing farmers’ knowledge and evaluating implementation of IRM practices
Module 14		Making field observations: Transplanting and beginning of the vegetative phase
Module 15		Recognizing weeds
Module 16		Integrated weed management
Module 17		Using herbicides efficiently in inland-valley rice production
Module 18		Making field observations: The vegetative phase
Module 19		Managing experiments, making observations and recording information during the vegetative phase
Module 20		Insects in rice cultivation
Module 21		Integrated pest management: African rice gall midge
Module 22		Integrated pest management: Rice stem borer
Module 23		Making field observations: Reproductive phase
Module 24		Managing experiments, making observations and recording information at maturity phase
Module 25		Harvesting and post-harvest activities
Module 26		Evaluating the results of the cropping season
Module 27		Evaluating the PLAR-IRM curriculum
Module 28		Closing session of the PLAR-IRM curriculum
Annexe 1		Evaluation form PLAR-IRM
Annexe 2		Evaluation form of a PLAR-IRM session
Annexe 3		Lowland baseline characterization for PLAR-IRM
Annexe 4		Socio-economic baseline form for PLAR-IRM
Annexe 5		Monitoring form for new practices put in place in the IRM field

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