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Dimitra Clubs are FAO’s global approach to encourage the engagement of local communities, male and female individuals, couples, local influencers and opinion leaders, as well as male household members in facilitated discussions, and promote collaboration to find community-led solutions for their common issues, among which are the issues of economic [...]

En plaçant les agriculteurs au cœur du processus d'apprentissage et d'innovation, les Champs-Écoles des Producteurs (CEP) de la FAO renforcent l'autonomie des personnes, des ménages et des communautés et contribuent à la restauration des écosystèmes. Le processus de découverte et d'apprentissage des CEP est idéal pour soutenir l'apprentissage et l'innovation [...]

This guide is developed for facilitators of sheep Farmer Field Schools (FFS) for Azerbaijan sheep production systems. A brief overview of the contents of this guide follows below. Chapter 2 provides steps in setting up FFS programs. This chapter can be used for project managers as a guide to set [...]

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.

A series of tools to work with farmers in Farmers Field and Business Schools for experiential learning that focuses on agriculture, marketing, gender, nutrition, and monitoring and evaluation

The purposes of the study were to investigate the effectiveness of Farmer Field School (FFS) for soil and crop management as perceived by the FFS farmers and to explore the relationships of the selected characteristics of the FFS farmers with their perceived effectiveness. Data were collected from 100 FFS farmers [...]

Farmer Field School(FFS) is an innovative initiative by Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty(SERP) - Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture (CMSA) to strengthen community participation in addressing farming problems of small and medium scale farmers. The local Village Activist and Cluster Activist organize Farmer Field School at a farmer's field. Prior [...]

The IPM has been evolving over the decades to address the deleterious impacts of synthetic chemical pesticides on environment ultimately affecting the interests of the planters. The economic threshold level (ETL) was the basis for several decades but in modern IPM (FAO 2002) emphasis is given to AESA where planters [...]

The present study was conducted in the central region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan comprising seven districts: Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Mardan, Swabi, Kohat and Hangu, during 2010. The objective was to analyze the perceived effect of Farmer Field School (FFS) approach on farmers’ capacity in controlling pre- and postharvest losses. [...]