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The Intensified Social Forestry Project in Semi-Arid Areas (ISFP), which is a technical cooperation project between JICA and Kenya Forestry Service (KFS), has been applying the FFS methodology in social forestry extension field since 2004. Based on experiences of ISFP, this multi-media material "Facilitator training tool for FFS session [...]

This guide is an attempt to provide an FFFS implementation guide for a wider audience including project designers and managers as well as field practitioners who intend to use the FFS platform for farm forestry extension. This volume also aims to provide not only a basic conceptual framework with [...]

The report has four specific objectives. 1) To evaluate the inherent capacity of the Livestock Farmer Field Schools (LFFS) approach to contribute to the development goals of VSF-Belgium in Turkana, Kenya; 2) To evaluate current strengths and weaknesses of the community-based primary animal healthcare system in Turkana; 3) To evaluate [...]

Background Paper for the IFAD Rural Poverty Report 2011. 1. THE HISTORY OF THE FARMER FIELD SCHOOL APPROACH.GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FARMER FIELD SCHOOLS. CASE STUDIES: FARMER FIELD SCHOOL NETWORKS (REGION: SUB SAHARAN AFRICA); JUNIOR FARMER FIELD AND LIFE SCHOOLS (REGION: SUB SAHARAN AFRICA);INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF FARMERS-LED IPM IN PAKISTAN (REGION: [...]

Implementation of Farmer Field School (FFS) extension approach in disseminating knowledge and skills on management technologies for crop production, crop pests, soil and water conservation (CPSWC) has had proven successes. To replicate its successes, FFS was extended to smallholder dairy production as an alternative to the conventional extension approaches (NFFS) [...]

The focus in this thesis is to form a view of how well soil fertility research performs within the ever shifting smallholder contexts. This study examined application of agroecological knowledge for soil fertility management by smallholder farmers, with the view to enhancing the utility of research among resource-deprived farmers of western Kenya. [...]

This article focuses on the context of the Millenium development goals (MDG) and improving and maintaining soil fertility in Africa.