Number of documents: 111
GUIDE PRATIQUE POUR LA CAPITALISATION DE BONNES PRATIQUES PASTORALES ET AGROPASTORALES
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2020 - FAO - Arnaud, Rouillard
Ce guide a pour but de vous initier à l’utilisation et à la rédaction de fiches techniques sur les bonnes pratiques pastorales et agropastorales. L’objectif étant de vous fournir un outil de gestion des connaissances pleinement opérationnel dans lequel les informations sur les bonnes pratiques sont continuellement documentées et diffusées [...]
Francés
Production system: Ganadería, Pasto/Pastura y árboles forrajeros, Grandes rumiantes, Pequeños rumiantes
The real seed producers. Small-scale farmers save, use, share and enhance the seed diversity of the crops that feed Africa
Documentos técnicos de referencia
2018 - AFSA, Grain -
This report unpacks and explores farmer-managed seed systems and their contribution to food and seed sovereignty, including the benefits they provide to farming communities as a part of their sociocultural, economic, spiritual and ecological livelihoods. The report highlights, exposes and explores how these systems work. It builds on reports of [...]
Inglés
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Improving pasture management in arid and semi-arid lands in the Horn of Africa through Pastoralist Field Schools - An implementation strategy to support pastoralist communities build resilience against drought
Documentos técnicos de referencia
2018 - FAO -
Recurrent drought, degraded rangelands and reduced access to traditional grazing lands have left pastoral communities in the Horn of Africa’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) more vulnerable and facing severe livestock feed shortages. During dry spells, pastoral communities suffer from food and nutrition insecurity, as well as shrinking incomes occasioned [...]
Inglés
Production system: Ganadería
Integrated management of the Fall Armyworm on maize. A guide for Farmer Field Schools in Africa
Material de capacitación
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Key guidelines and advice on effectively and sustainably managing FAW include:
Visit the field and look at the status of the crop: its health and signs of presence of the FAW. Farmers can take direct action by crushing egg masses and young larvae.
FAW damage can look alarming, but maize plants have [...]
Inglés
Production system: Cereales
Scaling and institutionalization within agricultural innovation systems: the case of cocoa farmer field schools in Cameroon
Estudio de impacto
2018 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability -
The farmer field school (FFS) concept has been widely adopted, and such schools have the reputation of strengthening farmers’ capacity to innovate. Although their impact has been studied widely, what is involved in their scaling and in their becoming an integral part of agricultural innovation systems has been studied [...]
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Training of Farmer Field School Master Trainers and Facilitators in Rwanda
Documentos claves sobre ECA
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.
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Production system: Cultivo, Ganadería, Cereales, Verduras y melones, Frutas y Nueces, Cultivos olineaginosos, Raíces y tubérculos, Leguminosa
The Plant is the Teacher
Documentos técnicos de referencia
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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Implementation Guide for Farmer Field Schools (FFS)
Material de capacitación
2017 - Oromia Bureau of Agriculture and Natural Resource (OBANR) -
This implementation guide has been prepared for FFS facilitators working under Oromia Bureau of Agriculture and Natural Resource (OBANR). The contents are generalized to adjust for many kinds of agriculture and natural resource development FFS program, however, the important concepts and practical suggestions from field operation through the project are [...]
Inglés
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Social Cost Benefit of CARE International's Pathways Program
Estudio de impacto
2016 - New Economics Foundation Consulting - Michael Weatherhead, Samrawit Mariam, Sarah Arnold, Alison Freeman
Impact assessment on the social cost benefit analysis of the CARE Pathways program, which focuses on getting extension, tools, and training to women farmers. The program includes gender dialogues and other exercises on gender equality. The study shows a $31 return for every $1 invested.
West Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, South Asia - Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Malawi, Mali, United Republic of Tanzania
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A Case for Resilience : an Approach for Women and Farmers groups to strengthen Resilience, integrating Social, Technical and Financial capacities
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2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
4 page brochure that describes the Caisses de Résilience approach -
Consolidating community resilience by strengthening households’ social, productive and financial capacities through an integrated approach.
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