Number of documents: 36
Role of Farmer Field Schools on sugarcane productivity in Malakand, Pakistan
Impact assessment
2007 - Department of Extension Education and Communication NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar - Pakistan - MUBASHIR HABIB, M. ZAFARULLAH KHAN, MAHMOOD IQBAL, KHALID NAWAB & SHAHID ALI
Farmer field schools (FFS) are always aimed to help farmers to discover and learn about field ecology and integrated crop management. A study for sugarcane crop was conducted in 4 FFS villages namely Zoormandai, Baghicha, Sarogai and Haji Gulzada Kalay of Malakand Agency during 2004-05. From each FFS, 10 farmers [...]
English
Production system: Sugar crops
Preparing farmer groups to engage successfully with markets - A field guide for five key skill sets
Training material
2007 - CRS and RII-CIAT Agroenterprise Study Tour Group -
The field guide aims to provide pointers for program managers and field staff on how to foster several skill sets crucial for preparing groups of poor farmers who are at a very early stage of engaging in markets and who aspire to successful agroenterprise development.
English
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The Clustering Approach to Agroenterprise Development for Small Farmers: The CRS-Philippines Experience. A Guidebook for Facilitators.
Training material
2007 - Catholic Relief Services - Jessan S. Catre, Floro T. Israel, Lionel D. Mendoza, Joan Cua Uy, Dinah Q. Tabbada, Alexander U. Tabbada
This guidebook has been designed for Field Facilitators who have adequate field experience in community development work. The production of this guidebook was also made in response to the request of other development organizations to assist them on how to adopt, adapt and implement Agroenterprise Development in linking small farmers [...]
English
Production system:
Participatory common learning in groups of dairy farmers in Uganda (FFS approach) and Danish stable schools
Case study
2007 - DJF Animal Science - Mette Vaarst
English
Production system: Livestock, Large Ruminants
Building FFS networks in East Africa
Technical background material
2007 - LEISA Magazine - Arnoud R. Braun, James Robert Okoth, Habakkuk Khaamala and Godrick S. Khisa
English
Production system:
Organic cocoa production : a guide for Farmer Field Schools in Sierra Leone
Training material
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Cora Dankers, Chris Newell
The objective of the guide is to promote participants' production and export quality cocoa in sufficient quantities to fulfill export contracts
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Farmer Field School for Potato Integrated Pest Management - A Facilitator’s Field Guide
Training material
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Sri Wahyuning, Warsito Tantowijoyo, Elske van de Fliert
This guide is meant as a reference for IPM FFS facilitators. It describes
exercises for the farmer field school learning process relating to sustainable
potato cultivation. This learning process begins with preparing fields for planting
and goes on right up to marketing harvest produce. These experiential learning
exercises are intended to empower farmers to [...]
English
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
An Ecological Guide to Potato Integrated Crop Management
Training material
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Potato Center (CIP-ESEAP Region) - Warsito Tantowijoyo (CIP) and Elske van de Fliert (FAO)
In this handbook we have tried to use language understandable to farmers,
purposely keeping material as simple but as thorough as possible. It opens with an
explanation about the principles of integrated pest management, then moves on to
technical production topics about potatoes. These cover cultivation techniques, the
ecology of pests and natural enemies, [...]
English
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
A Market Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Agroenterprise Development
Training material
2006 - Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) - Ferris, S., E. Kaganzi, R. Best, C. Ostertag, M. Lundy and T. Wandschneider
This Market Facilitator’s Guide is a product of the experiences and lessons learned while implementing agroenterprise projects in eastern and southern Africa. The Guide is based on a resource-to-consumption framework, which is the central theme of the “enabling rural innovation” (ERI) approach for rural development. This approach seeks to empower [...]
English
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First Regional meeting Report: Expansion of Farmer Field School Programme in Eastern and Southern Africa
Information on projects
2006 - GCP/RAF/399/IFA -
This report describes the 1st Regional meeting of the Expansion of Farmer Field School Programme in Eastern and Southern Africa Project held in Kakamega, Western Kenya from 13-17 November 2006. The meeting was organised into three main parts 1) Country presentations and discussions, 2) Field visit to FFS groups and [...]
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