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The publication “Manual for Preparation and Establishment of Farmer Field and Farm Business Schools” is intended to be used by the stakeholders in organic sector in Serbia. It has been developed within the framework of the UN FAO Project GCP/SRB/001/HUN: “Assistance to the Development of Capacity and Support Services for [...]

HHMs build on a growing understanding that, in many parts of the world, households are not cohesive units with shared needs, resources, benefits and goals. Rather, women and men in the same household often pursue separate livelihoods and are responsible for different production and consumption activities. Women usually have fewer [...]

The purpose of this paper is to document CARE’s current practice of Community-Based Adaptation (CBA) to climate change and how, increasingly, elements of the approach are evolving and being integrated into other development sectors. This synthesis of CBA project examples informs an ongoing process to update our various tools and [...]

El proyecto Siembra busca dignificar la labor de la mujer en el campo y contribuir a su desarrollo económico y personal. Conoce en Escuela de Campo las historias de Ángela, Fabiola y Éric, tres mujeres ejemplo de superación y liderazgo que pasaron de ser desplazadas a ser verdaderas protagonistas del [...]

FAO’s Junior and adult Farmer Field and Life Schools (J/FFLS) are addressing the root causes of gender-based violence and helping to prevent and mitigate the effects of HIV in northern Uganda through the provision of key life skills and knowledge in agricultural production and nutrition.

The aims of this research was to understand how education in the rural African faming setting can contribute to development and well-being in a way that is empowering for the poor. The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach provided an empirical frame for the research. By reflecting on experiences of FFS [...]

The FAO Dimitra community listeners’ clubs are groups of women, men and young people – mixed or not – who decide to organize themselves so as to work together to bring about changes in their communities. They meet regularly to discuss the challenges they face in their daily lives, make [...]

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 [...]