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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.

An Empirical Analysis of Expanding Rice Production in Sub-Sahara Africa. How far can new technologies taught to a small number of selected farmers diffuse to other farmers in a village? In order to answer this question, this paper investigates the impact of JICA training on the adoption of rice cultivation technologies [...]

More than 22,000 farmers on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, off the Tanzanian coast, have gone back to school. Although they have farmed for generations, they have decided to learn how to farm. Their productivity has increased so much, that the local Government has made these Farmer Field Schools [...]

We estimate the impact of a Farmer Field School intervention among small-scale farmers in northern Tanzania on two main development objectives: food security and poverty. We employ a series of evaluation methodologies, including a Quasi-Difference-in-Difference setup, to account for potential selection into the project, despite lack of baseline data. We [...]

This study is motivated by the idea that even though participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) is widely accepted as a tool to manage development programs to be effective, its application is widely constrained by its high start-up resource requirements in terms of both finance and time. However, this paper argues that [...]

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 study explores empowerment and well-being related outcomes of Farmer Field Schools (FFS), an extension approach that has gained popularity with agriculture development programs in many African countries. This is done by examining the empirical relationships between FFS participation and increased well-being; as well as FFS participation and empowerment; and [...]

The study found that younger farmers who belong to other groups, such as savings and credit groups, tended to participate in field schools. Females made up 50 percent of FFS membership. Reasons for not joining an FFS included lack of time and information. FFSs were shown to be especially beneficial [...]

This is a training manual developed to improve the situation of pastoralist communities in the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. The exercises are focused on the priority problems identified among pastoralist communities in Kilombero and Ulanga Districts, but these problems are not necessarily the same in other districts. It is hoped that [...]