Short-term training involves workshops, seminars, farmer field schools, and train-the-trainer sessions—quick infusions of information into a population. These shorter term training efforts complement long-term training in a valuable way: they get information out quickly and broadly to large numbers of people.

During fiscal year 2006, IPM CRSP held over 99 short-term training events serving more than 9,420 persons. Training activities were held in 16 different developing countries with the active cooperation of host country collaborators. These numbers were underreported because counts of participating men

Farmer field school in Uganda