Number of documents: 21
Enabling "Response-ability": A stocktaking of farmer field schools on smallholder forestry and agroforestry
Advocacy and policy
2023 - FAO -
Forestry and agroforestry education and extension programmes for forest and farm communities have not kept up with needs in many places. However, the success of achieving international sustainability goals and implementing global commitments with respect to sustainable production, halting land degradation, ecosystem restoration and climate change mitigation is contingent on [...]
Global -
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops, Pastures /Fodder trees
Enabling farmer-led ecosystem restoration: Farmer field schools on forestry and agroforestry
Training material
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN -
Agricultural expansion is responsible for almost 90 percent of deforestation worldwide, making it a leading driver of biodiversity and habitat loss. Cropland expansion is the main driver, causing almost 50 percent of global deforestation, followed by livestock grazing, which accounts for 38.5 percent. This situation of great concern presents a [...]
Global -
English
Production system:
What have we learned from trees? Three decades of farmer field schools on agroforestry and forestry
Impact assessment
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Over the last three decades, Farmer Field Schools (FFS) have proven to be an effective discovery-learning-capacity building approach to help rural populations to innovate with more clarity and purpose while building the social skills needed for rural transformation and empowerment. The diverse forestry and agroforestry applications of the FFS demonstrate [...]
Global -
English
Production system:
RAPPORT DE CONSULTATION SUR L’INVENTAIRE DES BONNES PRATIQUES AGRO-SYLVO-PASTORALES AU BURKINA FASO
Technical background material
2020 - FAO - SANA, Youssoufou
Au Burkina Faso, le faible niveau de développement social et économique et sa population à grande majorité rurale rendent le pays très dépendant des ressources naturelles. Pour se nourrir, se loger et s’épanouir, les ressources naturelles sont directement prélevées et les terres sont de plus en plus mises en culture [...]
French
Production system: Crops, Livestock, Poultry
Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi series: Evaluation of the Agroforestry Farmer Field Schools on Agroforestry Management in South and Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
Impact assessment
2016 - Agroforestery Centre - Endri Martini, Ummu Saad, Yeni Angreiny, James M. Roshetko, Hendra Gunawan, Heru T. Maulana, Gusti Suganda, Gusti Dwipayana, La Ode M Erwin, Abdul Hadedi
The Agroforestry Farmer Field School (AFFS) is a program implemented through the Agroforestry and Forestry: Linking Knowledge to Action (AgFor) project that seeks to improve the agroforestry garden management capacity of smallholder farmers in several provinces of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. In principle, the method implemented in AFFS follows the participatory [...]
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts, Beverages/Spice crops
Farmer Field Schools Approach for Agroforestry & Natural Resource Development
Technical background material
2016 - JICA and Orimia Bureau of Agriculture - JICA and Orimia Bureau of Agriculture
This is a 8 page brochure of FFS for social forest extention in Ethiopia.
English
Production system:
Intégration de la Résilience Climatique dans la Production Agricole pour la Sécurité Alimentaire en Milieu Rural au Mali. Fiche (1) signalétique de mesures d’ACC. Déchiffrage.
Information on projects
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
French
Production system:
Évaluation finale du projet: Intégration de la résilience climatique dans la production agricole pour la sécurité alimentaire en milieu rural au Mali
Information on projects
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
French
Production system:
Farm Forestry Field Facilitator Manual
Training material
2013 - Danish Forestry Extension - Edited by Josipa Bicanic and Karsten Raae
A FFS manual on farm forestry.
Global -
English
Production system: Others
Impacto de las escuelas de campo en familias y fincas cacaoteras de Alta Verapaz y Costa Sur, Guatemala
Impact assessment
2013 - CATIE - Iván Andrés Delgado Vargas
Spanish
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops