Number of documents: 88
Farmer Field School in Kenya
Audiovisual material
2013 - The Sustainable Trade Initiative - IDH -
IDH reportage about a KTDA Farmer Field School in Kenya.
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Supporting communities in building resilience through Agro-Pastoral Field Schools (APFS)
Case study
2013 - FAO - James Robert Okoth, Winfred Nalyongo, Monica Petri and Thomas Ameny
The ecosystem-based Farmer Field Schools (FFS) approach provides an excellent platform that is flexible and responsive to meeting the requisite tailored skills of the farmers. As pastoralists cover large parts of Africa, are especially vulnerable to food insecurity, climatic changes, and often do not receive specific programmes of education, the [...]
English
Production system: Crops, Livestock
Innovative Training in Cocoa Agroforestry: the Farmer Field Schools of Nicaragua
Information on projects
2012 - The World Bank - Mary Lisbeth Gonzalez
A regular series of notes highlighting recent lessons emerging from the operational and analytical program of the World Bank‘s Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC).
The World Bank, with the financial support of the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF), is implementing the Alternative Indigenous and AfroDescendants and Agroforestry Project (COCOA – [...]
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts, Beverages/Spice crops
Less Noise in the Household: the Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Gender Relations
Impact assessment
2012 - Journal of Research in Peace, Gender and Development - Esbern Friis-Hansen, Deborah Duveskog and Edward W. Taylor
The study examines the impact of collective action in Kenyan Farmer Field School groups on household gender equity. Qualitative fieldwork reveal significant changes in household division of labour and decision-making; in gendered customs and traditions, and in men’s work ethics and their view of women. To understand how the participatory [...]
English
Production system:
On-farm Practices for the Safe Use of Wastewater in Urban and Peri-urban Horticulture
Training material
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Robert Abaidoo, Ben Keraita, James Akatse, Ben Keraita, Modeste Kinane, Collins K. Osei, Javier Mateo-Sagasta, Ines Beernaerts, Sasha Koo-Oshima, Anthony Youdeowei, Marjon Fredrix, Paul Neate, K.G. Ato de GraftJohnson, Paolo Mander, James Morgan, Pay Drec
Global -
English
Production system: Others
Apropiación y aplicación de conocimientos y habilidades por familias cacaoteras en Bocas del Toro, Panamá. Resultados de las Escuelas de Campo de Proyecto Cacao Centroamérica
Case study
2012 - The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) - Juan Ramón Flor Vinces
El cultivo de cacao constituye un rubro de gran importancia social y económica en
Centroamérica, siendo una fuente de ingresos para más de 15000 familias. Aún así, en ocasiones la producción de cacao se ve limitada por problemas de manejo que pueden relacionarse con la existencia de pocas oportunidades de capacitación. [...]
Spanish
Production system: Fruits and Nuts, Beverages/Spice crops
Community Mobilization: a Key to Effective Control of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt
Impact assessment
2012 - Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics - Kubiriba J., Karamura E. B., Jogo, W., Tushemereirwe W. K. and Tinzaara W.
Banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) remains a major threat to banana, an important food and income crop for 12 million poor small-holder farmers in Uganda. Although, BXW has been controlled to some extent in parts of South-western Uganda, it is still a big problem in banana growing areas of Central and [...]
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts
Global Farmer field school review challenges FFS programmes
Impact assessment
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - John Pontius
Global FFS review 2012
English
Production system:
Evaluation of the Farmer Field School Approach in the Agriculture sector programme support - Phase II
Impact assessment
2011 - DANIDA - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark -
The main purpose of this Evaluation was to analyse and to document – in a gender perspective – the results and the lessons learned from using the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach in the Agriculture Sector Programme Support Phase II (ASPS II) in Bangladesh.
The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the [...]
English
Production system:
Farmer Field School Facilitator’s Guide Horticulture Marketing and Agriculture for Jamaican Improved Competitiveness (MAJIC)
Training material
2011 - Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MOAF), Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) of Jamaica -
The goal of this program is to help Jamaican farmers improve the quantity, quality and consistency of horticulture crops. While this manual focuses on Scotch Bonnet Peppers and onions, the principles of farmer field school can be applied to any crop.
English
Production system: Crops, Fruits and Nuts