Number of documents: 40
Restoring the soil: A Guide for Using Green Manure/Cover Crops to Improve the Food Security of Smallholder Farmers
Matériel de formation
2012 - Canadian Foodgrains Bank - Roland Bunch
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 -
Anglais
Production system: Culture
Apropiación y aplicación de conocimientos y habilidades por familias cacaoteras en Bocas del Toro, Panamá. Resultados de las Escuelas de Campo de Proyecto Cacao Centroamérica
Étude de cas
2012 - The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) - Juan Ramón Flor Vinces
El cultivo de cacao constituye un rubro de gran importancia social y económica en
Centroamérica, siendo una fuente de ingresos para más de 15000 familias. Aún así, en ocasiones la producción de cacao se ve limitada por problemas de manejo que pueden relacionarse con la existencia de pocas oportunidades de capacitación. [...]
Espagnol
Production system: Fruits et noix, Stimulants et épices
Sustainable Crop Production Intensification in the Senegal and Niger River Basins of Francophone West Africa
Documents clés sur les CEP
2011 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability - William Settle and Mohamed Hama Garba
This paper reports on how the farmer field school (FFS) approach has been used to successfully catalyse important changes among stakeholders in the savannah zones of West Africa. Improved agronomic practices, better decision-making skills and diversification of smallholder farms in developing countries are shown to provide farmers the opportunity to [...]
Anglais
Production system: Culture, Céréales, Légumes et melons
Farmer Field Schools in Bonsaaso, Ghana
Matériel audiovisuel
2010 - Millenium Promise -
With the support of the Millennium Village Project, farmers in Bonsaaso, Ghana have formed collectives. This enables experienced farmers to pass their knowledge along to the younger member of their community, thereby improving crop yields and nutrition.
Anglais
Production system: Stimulants et épices
Village poultry, food security and HIV / AIDS mitigation
Étude de cas
2008 - LEISA Magazine - Robyn Alders , Robyn Alders , Brigitte Bagnol , Mohamed Harun , Mary Young
Anglais
Production system: Volailles
Un bon départ! Faire fonctionner une école pratique d'agriculture et de vie pour les jeunes
Matériel de formation
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Global -
Français
Production system:
Reducing pesticide exposure and associated neurotoxic burden in an Ecuadorian small farm population
Étude d'impact
2007 - International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health - Cole, D.C., S. Sherwood, M. Paredes, L. Helena Sanin, C. Crissman, P. Espinosa and F. Munoz
The contribution of community-based interventions, including farmer field schools (FFSs) in integrated pest management (IPM), to reducing pesticide exposures and associated neurotoxic burden among smallfarm families in Ecuador was assessed in three Andean farming communities in a co-design of targeted action–research. Baseline questionnaire surveys elicited pesticide-related knowledge, practices, and exposure [...]
Anglais
Production system:
Las Escuelas de Campo para Agricultores (ECAs) en el PESA-Nicaragua. Una experiencia participativa de extensión para contribuir a la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en Nicaragua
Étude de cas
2005 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Ramiro Ortiz
Espagnol
Production system:
Fishery based food security field schools: Bondo district, Lake Victoria, Kenya
Étude de cas
2004 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Devin M. Bartley, Beatrice Nyandat, Deborah Duveskog
Fisheries and aquaculture integrating Food security field schools (FSFS) in Kenya.
Anglais
Production system: Aquaculture, Pêche
Diversifying Rice-based Systems and Empowering Farmers in Bangladesh Using the Farmer Field-school Approach
Étude de cas
2002 - Earthscan Publications - Norman Uphoff
Over the past eight years, CARE-Bangladesh has been developing a set of
sustainable agriculture projects to improve production in rice-based farming
systems in this country. These efforts have contributed to an emergent
programme to increase food security for poor and marginal farmers. The
programme raises agricultural productivity by diversifying agroecosystems
and optimizing yields, reducing costs [...]
Anglais
Production system: Céréales