Number of documents: 35
The Farmer Field School approach – history, global assessment and success stories
Key documents on FFS
2008 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) - Arnoud Braun and Deborah Duveskog
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: [...]
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Push-pull curriculum for Farmer Field Schools
Training material
2007 - International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) - International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
The purpose of this curriculum is to guide farmers in learning the principles and practices of the Push-pull technology so that they can apply them on their farms. Push-pull is a knowledge-intensive technology, and there is a need to have a curriculum to guide the process of acquiring knowledge and [...]
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Agricultural extension in Africa and Asia
Technical background material
2007 - World AgInfo Project - Carl K. Eicher
The purpose of this review is to summarize the literature on the role of agricultural extension systems in helping smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia increase agriculture production and their livelihoods.
Near East and North Africa, West Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, South-East Asia, Global -
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Regional institutionalization and scaling-up of farmer study group (FSG) activities - workshop report
Technical background material
2007 - STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKSHOP - George Onyango
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Regional institutionalization and scaling up of farmer study group (FSG) activities phase 2 - institutional analysis
Technical background material
2007 - Danish agricultural Advisory Services & Danish Institute for International Studies - Esbern Friis-Hansen and Sanne Chipeta
An initiative to scale up and institutionalise farmer driven study groups in Eastern and Southern Africa, with a particular focus on commercialisation and market access
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Farmer Field Schools on land and water management in Africa
Technical background material
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Proceedings of an international workshop in Jinja, Uganda, 24–29 April 2006.
This publication is the coordinated work of the Land and Water Division of FAO, the Agricultural Economics Institute of Wageningen Agricultural University and Research Centre (LEI/WUR), Environment Alert, and other partners. It was produced as part of FAO’s Land and [...]
Near East and North Africa, West Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Child participation in Junior Farmer Field Schools (vocational education)
Training material
2006 - Catholic Relief Services - Carolyn Fanelli
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Junior Farmer Field Life Schools in Namibia
Case study
2006 - Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN) - Kiwan W. Cato
The document revises the implementation of Junior Farmer Field Life Schools (JFFSLS) in Namibia, its challenges and lessons learned.
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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 [...]
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Inventory of Farmer study group initiatives in Africa - a synthesis report
Technical background material
2006 - . - Arnoud Braun
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