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IDH reportage about a KTDA Farmer Field School in Kenya.

The latest approach in enhancing the uptake of agricultural technologies is through the Farmer Field Schools that have only a short history in Tanzania.The paper reviews FFS and gives a brief presentation of the history of FFS in Tanzania. The paper then makes an assessment of the effectiveness of the approach [...]

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 [...]

Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable to climate change, given dependence on agricultural production and limited adaptive capacity. Based on farm household and Participatory Rural Appraisal data collected from districts in various agroecological zones in Kenya, this paper examines farmers’ perceptions of climate change, ongoing adaptation measures, and factors [...]

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 [...]

Farmer Field Schools' Master Trainers' course for Northern Uganda. In response to the pronouncement that Government programmes adopt Farmer Field Schools by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in 2008, FAO trained 21 frontline Government extension staff from Northern Uganda in the methodology. Graduated [...]

Farmers who participated in both Rainforest Alliance (RA) training and Farmer Field School (FFS) training had the highest increase in knowledge of GAPs between 2010 and 2012, followed by farmers who participated only in the RA training. Farmers trained for RA certification also had a significantly higher knowledge level in 2012 than the other [...]

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 [...]

La recherche facilitant la collaboration entre paysans et chercheurs et l’apprentissage par l’expérience peut fournir l’élément manquant pour adapter les recommandations de gestion des cultures aux besoins des paysans. Nous avons testé différents systèmes de gestion de la culture de riz irriguée pendant trois saisons d’expérimentation de recherche adaptative dans trois sites de la Moyenne Vallée [...]

Ce guide pratique a été préparé pour aider les groupes d’agriculteurs producteurs de semences riz à améliorer la qualité des semences qu’ils vont produire. Il se veut une contribution à l’amélioration de la production rizicole au Mali. Le guide pratique est à la fois un ouvrage d’information et de formation qui explique en [...]