Number of documents: 189
Cassava Farmer Field Schools : Resource Material for Facilitators in Sub-Saharan Africa
Training material
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Martin Ameua, Jennifer Hirea, Daniel Kamalanduac, Godrick Khisad, Celestin Koko Nzezab, Cyprien Ndambi Ndokibc and Wilson Oduori Abangid
This manual is part of FAO’s effort to promote sustainable intensification of smallholder crop production. It provides background information on the farmer field school approach and a compilation of field exercises as they are used in cassava farmer field schools. The guide is intended for use by farmer field facilitators [...]
Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa - Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda
English
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
Pastoralist Field Schools - training of Facilitators Manual
Training material
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Godrick Khisa, Winnie Nalyongo, Aresawum Mengesha, Solomon Nega, Deborah Duveskog, Karine Garnier, Paul Mutungi, Angela Kimani, James Okoth
The Pastoralist Field School (PFS) approach is an adaptation of the innovative, participatory and interactive learning approach; Farmer Field Schools (FFS). this manual will assist the PFS and Agropastoral Field Schools (APFS) community in expanding the approach in a harmonised manner with attention to quality and mainstreaming [...]
Global -
English
Production system: Livestock, Large Ruminants
Science Field Shops to reduce climate vulnerabilities: an inter- and trans-disciplinary educational commitment
Technical background material
2013 - University of Nebraska Press - Yunita T. Winarto, Kees Stigter
In addition to an always valuable inter-disciplinary approach in problem solving in agricultural production, a trans-disciplinary collaboration between farmers on the one hand and scholars and scientists on the other is beneficial for both parties as they reach across the voids between their very different realms and idioms. We have [...]
English
Production system:
Learning in the social wild: Farmers Field School and the politics of agricultural science and development in Ecuador
Case study
2013 - Adaptive Collaborative Approaches in Natural Resource Governance - Stephen Sherwood, Marc Schut and Cees Leeuwis
English
Production system:
The Mud on their legs. Farmer to Farmer videos in Uganda
Case study
2013 - MEAS - Jeffery Bentley, Paul Van Mele, and Grace Musimami
English
Production system:
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
EFARP Farmer Field School
Audiovisual material
2013 - MTT Finland -
Egypt-Finland Agricultural Research Project (EFARP)
EFARP was launched in 1989 as a pilot project to provide a model how the efficiency of small-scale farming in the newly reclaimed areas can be improved with the help of efficient utilisation of agricultural research results. Ismailia Governorate on both sides of Suez Canal was [...]
English
Production system: Crops
Farmer Field Schools: A Systematic Review
Impact assessment
2013 - International Initiative for Impact Evaluation - Hugh Waddington; Birte Snilstveit, Jorge Hombrados, Martina Vojtkova, Daniel Phillips, Howard White
Global -
English
Production system:
Impact of FFS on Farmer's Adoption of IPM options for onion: a Case Study from Gezira state, Sudan
Impact assessment
2013 - World Journal of Agricultural Sciences - Ahmed M. Abdel Rahman and Mohamed E. Hamid
The objective of this study was to determine the impact of Farmer Field Schools on farmer's adoption of IPM options for onion in the Gezira State. Field surveys were used to collect data from three Farmer Field Schools in the Gezira State in the 2010/2011 growing season. All FFS participants [...]
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons
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
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