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Ce guide est destiné aux facilitateurs qui animent les formations participatives en gestion intégrée de la production et des déprédateurs à travers les Champs écoles des producteurs ou Champs écoles paysans (CEP) en Afrique de l’Ouest francophone. Il est une synthèse et une capitalisation des expériences de terrain des facilitateurs [...]

This brief is part of the series, A Field Guide for Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa: Key Practices for DRR Implementers, coordinated by the FAO Subregional Office for Disaster Risk Reduction/Management for Southern Africa.

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 [...]

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 [...]

A FFS manual on farm forestry.

As world population numbers tick ever higher, ensuring that food production keeps pace is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. Large-scale agriculture will provide part of the solution, but smallholder farmers (farmers in developing countries who often have limited land and capital, are poorly linked to markets and are [...]

Global FFS review 2012

The aim of the methodological guide is to constitute an initial step in the empowerment of local communities to develop a local soil quality monitoring and decision-making system for better management of soil resources. This approach uses consensus building to develop practical solutions to soil management constraints identified, as well [...]