Global Farmer Field School Platform
Number of documents: 149

Training of Farmer Field School Master Trainers and Facilitators in Rwanda

Key documents on FFS

2017 - Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources Rwanda, Belgian Development Agency - Somers Raf, Higiro Joseph, Gata Sylvia Salama, Busogoro Jean Pierre & Ndabamenye Telesphore
The comprehensive publication provides detailed information of how FFS Master Trainers and FFS Facilitators were trained in Rwanda. It describes the principles and methods, the training schedules as well as a all different activities during the seasonlong training. A must read for all projects and organisations applying FFS.
English
Production system: Crops, Livestock, Cereals, Vegetables and Melons, Fruits and Nuts, Oilseed crops, Root/Tuber crops, Legumes

The Plant is the Teacher

Technical background material

2017 - Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources Rwanda, Belgian Development Agency - Somers Raf, Mary Rubibigango, Higiro Joseph, Gata Sylvia Salama
In Rwanda, more than 200,000 families by reached by an FFS program. The colorful publication provides an insights in the success of the farmer field school approach in Rwanda. It describes the principles, the FFS tools, the results, the scaling up and the sustainability.
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Operating regulations for Community Seed Banks. A manual

Technical background material

2017 - ASOCUCH - Joya Hermosa
Community Seed Banks are places designed to protect seeds using a number of in situ (on-site) conservation processes and equipment as preferred by farmers. This strategy for strengthening local seed populations is empowered at the community level by workers who greatly appreciate their natural resources and want to get involved [...]
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The power to exercise choice: implementing farmers’rights to eradicate poverty and adapt to climate change. Briefing note

Technical background material

2017 - Oxfam -
The SD=HS program aims to realize Farmers’ Rights by empowering indigenous peoples and smallholder farmers to uphold their role in contributing to food security and strengthening their adaptive capacities. This report describes the main tools and achievements so far. Farmer field schools are one key tool. They facilitate farmers in [...]
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SeedsGROW. Harvesting global food security and justice in the face of climate change. Progress Report 1 April 2016-31 March 2017

Advocacy and policy

2017 - Oxfam -
The third progress report presents results, achievements, challenges and financial updates from the period 1 April 2016 until 31 March 2017. The document reports both on the SD=HS program and the GROW campaign.
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Escuelas de Campo: la experiencia del CATIE para la gestión de conocimiento y el desarrollo de capacidades

Technical background material

2017 - The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) - Cris Soto Gómez
Presentación sobre las ECAs en el contexto de implementación del CATIE. XII Taller de Seguimiento Técnico de Proyectos FONTAGRO.
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Escola do campo: relação entre conhecimentos, saberes e culturas

Impact assessment

2017 - Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Isaura Isabel ConteI, Marlene RibeiroII
Este artigo trata da relação entre os conhecimentos programáticos com os saberes acumulados nas práticas de trabalho e as culturas de comunidades camponesas, no ensino realizado pela Escola José de Lima Barros, no município de Nossa Senhora do Livramento/MT. Busca evidenciar a maneira como se dá o entrelaçamento dos diversos [...]
Portuguese
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Share a Seed

Audiovisual material

2017 - Oxfam Novib -
Video on the Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security (SD=HS) program in Zimbabwe, run by partners CTDT and Oxfam Novib.
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VoiPastorales : Renforcer la résilience des systèmes pastoraux au travers du théâtre forum

Audiovisual material

2016 - CIRAD - Bastien Defives
L’ambition du projet est de créer une synergie de dialogue entre des scientifiques, des acteurs du développement et des acteurs de la société civile engagés dans la définition de pratiques pastorales résilientes dans la zone du Ferlo Sénégalais. La création de dialogues impliquant l’ensemble des acteurs concernés et notamment les pasteurs, [...]
French
Production system: Livestock, Large Ruminants

Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores para la producción de semillas de calidad

Audiovisual material

2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Las Escuelas de Campo para Agricultores (ECA) son esencialmente escuelas sin paredes, con una metodología pedagógica fundamentada en la educación no formal y en el “aprender-haciendo”. Las ECA introducen innovaciones tecnológicas al tiempo que aprovechan los conocimientos autóctonos. En las ECA, los agricultores son los expertos. Este video está enfocado [...]
Spanish
Production system: Crops