Number of documents: 540
Farmer field schools: Key practices for disaster risk reduction implementers
Technical background material
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Godrick Simiyu Khisa, James Okoth, Erin O´Brien
This brief is part of the series, A Field Guide for Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa: Key Practices for DRR Implementers, coordinated by the FAO Subregional Office for Disaster Risk Reduction/Management for Southern Africa.
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Proyectos supramunicipales concertados y concurrentes. Escuelas de campo para agricultores con enfoque de adaptación al cambio climático.
Information on projects
2014 - HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation - Diana Cuellar
Proyecto Gestión de Recursos Naturales y Cambio Climático de la Cooperación Suiza en Bolivia
Spanish
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Farmer Field Schools engage women and men in genderbased violence prevention
Case study
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
FAO’s Junior and adult Farmer Field and Life Schools (J/FFLS) are addressing the root causes of gender-based violence and helping to prevent and mitigate the effects of HIV in northern Uganda through the provision of key life skills and knowledge in agricultural production and nutrition.
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Management of Beet Armyworm
Audiovisual material
2013 - Rural Agricultural Development Authority Videos -
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Schools Without Walls - (Agro)Pastoralist Field Schools in the Horn of Africa
Audiovisual material
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
See how members of Arbale Pastoral Field School in Borana Zone, Southern Ethiopia are applying knowledge gained to implementing community managed disaster risk reduction action plans for the protection of vast areas of communal grazing lands.
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Addressing Planthopper Threats to Asian Rice Farming and Food Security: Fixing Insecticide Misuse
Case study
2013 - ADB Sustainable Development Working Paper Series - Kong Luen Heong with Larry Wong and Joy Hasmin De los Reyes
English
Production system: Cereals
Farmer field schools as a Transformative Learning Space in the Rural African Setting
Case study
2013 - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Deborah Duveskog
The aims of this research was to understand how education in the rural African faming setting can contribute to development and well-being in a way that is empowering for the poor. The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach provided an empirical frame for the research. By reflecting on experiences of FFS [...]
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Dimitra Community Listeners' Clubs for Food Security and Women's leadership
Audiovisual material
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
The FAO Dimitra community listeners’ clubs are groups of women, men and young people – mixed or not – who decide to organize themselves so as to work together to bring about changes in their communities. They meet regularly to discuss the challenges they face in their daily lives, make [...]
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Cassava Farmer Field Schools : Resource Material for Facilitators in Sub-Saharan Africa
Training material
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Martin Ameua, Jennifer Hirea, Daniel Kamalanduac, Godrick Khisad, Celestin Koko Nzezab, Cyprien Ndambi Ndokibc and Wilson Oduori Abangid
This manual is part of FAO’s effort to promote sustainable intensification of smallholder crop production. It provides background information on the farmer field school approach and a compilation of field exercises as they are used in cassava farmer field schools. The guide is intended for use by farmer field facilitators [...]
Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa - Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda
English
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
Save & Grow: Integrating Rice, Fish and Aquatic Biodiversity
Information on projects
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
The Regional Rice Initiative (RRI), a pilot of the Strategic Objective 2 “Sustainable Management of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries” of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, is designed to focus on the importance of goods and services produced by and available from rice ecosystems, and to identify [...]
English
Production system: Cereals, Aquaculture