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The ecosystem-based Farmer Field Schools (FFS) approach provides an excellent platform that is flexible and responsive to meeting the requisite tailored skills of the farmers. As pastoralists cover large parts of Africa, are especially vulnerable to food insecurity, climatic changes, and often do not receive specific programmes of education, the [...]

Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable to climate change, given dependence on agricultural production and limited adaptive capacity. Based on farm household and Participatory Rural Appraisal data collected from districts in various agroecological zones in Kenya, this paper examines farmers’ perceptions of climate change, ongoing adaptation measures, and factors [...]

A regular series of notes highlighting recent lessons emerging from the operational and analytical program of the World Bank‘s Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC). The World Bank, with the financial support of the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF), is implementing the Alternative Indigenous and AfroDescendants and Agroforestry Project (COCOA – [...]

The study examines the impact of collective action in Kenyan Farmer Field School groups on household gender equity. Qualitative fieldwork reveal significant changes in household division of labour and decision-making; in gendered customs and traditions, and in men’s work ethics and their view of women. To understand how the participatory [...]

Farmer Field Schools' Master Trainers' course for Northern Uganda. In response to the pronouncement that Government programmes adopt Farmer Field Schools by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in 2008, FAO trained 21 frontline Government extension staff from Northern Uganda in the methodology. Graduated [...]

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 [...]

El Programa Agroambiental Mesoamericano (MAP, por sus siglas en inglés Mesoamerican Agroenvironmental Program) del CATIE es una ambiciosa plataforma intersectorial cuyo fin es mejroar el bienestar en las áreas rurales de Mesoamérica. Con el apoyo de los gobiernos de Noruega, Suecia y Finlandia, el MAP trabaja de manera integrada y coordinada [...]

Farmers who participated in both Rainforest Alliance (RA) training and Farmer Field School (FFS) training had the highest increase in knowledge of GAPs between 2010 and 2012, followed by farmers who participated only in the RA training. Farmers trained for RA certification also had a significantly higher knowledge level in 2012 than the other [...]

Este estudio proporciona evidencias claras acerca de las bondades de las ECAS y de los impactos que pueden lograrse a partir de su uso apropiado, lo cual confirma y refuerza la importancia de trabajar fuertemente en la promoción y uso de las mismas como herramienta poderosa para la gestión del conocimiento en el marco [...]