منصة مدارس المزارعين الحقلية العالمية
Number of documents: 40

Restoring the soil: A Guide for Using Green Manure/Cover Crops to Improve the Food Security of Smallholder Farmers

Training material

2012 - Canadian Foodgrains Bank - Roland Bunch
As world population numbers tick ever higher, ensuring that food production keeps pace is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. Large-scale agriculture will provide part of the solution, but smallholder farmers (farmers in developing countries who often have limited land and capital, are poorly linked to markets and are [...]
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Production system: Crops

InPaC-S: Participatory knowledge Integration of Indicators of Soil Quality - Methodological Guide

Training material

2012 - World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), International Center for Tropical Agriculture - Barrios, E., R.J. Delve, M. Bekunda, J. Mowo, J. Agunda, J. Ramisch, M.T. Trejo and R.J. Thomas
The aim of the methodological guide is to constitute an initial step in the empowerment of local communities to develop a local soil quality monitoring and decision-making system for better management of soil resources. This approach uses consensus building to develop practical solutions to soil management constraints identified, as well [...]
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Farmer Field School Facilitator’s Guide Horticulture Marketing and Agriculture for Jamaican Improved Competitiveness (MAJIC)

Training material

2011 - Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MOAF), Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) of Jamaica -
The goal of this program is to help Jamaican farmers improve the quantity, quality and consistency of horticulture crops. While this manual focuses on Scotch Bonnet Peppers and onions, the principles of farmer field school can be applied to any crop.
English
Production system: Crops, Fruits and Nuts

Conservation Agriculture (CA) in Tanzania: the Case of the Mwangaza B CA Farmer Field School (FFS), Rhotia village, Karatu district, Arusha

Case study

2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Marietha Z. Owenya, Wilfred L. Mariki, Josef Kienzle, Theodor Friedrich and Amir Kassam
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Production system: Cereals, Legumes

Sustainable Land Management in Practice. Guideline and Best Practices for Sub-Saharan Africa. Field Application

Training material

2011 - TerrAfrica, World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Hanspeter Liniger, Rima Mekdaschi Studer, Christine Hauert, Mats Gurtner
Production of guidelines for best sustainable land management (SLM) technologies and approaches in SubSaharan Africa (SSA) has been part of TerrAfrica’s programme during 2009-2010. These guidelines and case studies are intended to help create a framework for investment related to SLM in SSA. The particular aim of these guidelines is [...]
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Farm nitrogen flows of four Farmer Field Schools in Kenya

Impact assessment

2009 - Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems - Christy L. van Beek, Davies D. Onduro, Louis N. Gachimbi, Andre de Jager
Re-use of nutrients within farming systems contributes to sustainable food production in nutrient limited production systems. Re-use is established when nutrients pass through several farm compartments before they leave the farm via marketable products. In this paper re-use of nitrogen is examined as an indicator for sustainable soil fertility management. [...]
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Exploring options for integrated nutrient management in semi-arid tropics using Farmer Field Schools: a case study in Mbeere district, Eastern Kenya

Case study

2008 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability - Onduru, D. D.; du Preez, C. C.; Muchena, F. N.; Gachimbi, L. N.; de Jager, A.; Gachini, G. N.
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Changing the strategies of Farmer Field Schools in Bangladesh

Case study

2007 - LEISA Magazine - Hein Bijlmakers and Muhammad Ashraful Islam
English
Production system: Cereals

Our experiences with modified Farmer Field Schools in dryland areas

Case study

2007 - LEISA Magazine - Arun Balamatti and Rajendra Hegde
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts

Lessons for Farmer-Oriented Research: Experiences from a West African Soil Fertility Management Project

Technical background material

2007 - Agriculture and Human Values - E. Suzanne Nederlof, Constant Dangbegnon
Our objective in this study is to determine why resource-poor farmers in Togo (declined to) adopt recommended practices that were promoted through a multi-organizational project on soil fertility management. We examine the processes and outcomes related to the adoption process. The project was undertaken in three villages in the Central [...]
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