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The broad objective of the local chicken FFS is to improve income and household food security in the smallholders farming system.

This Farmer Field School Methodology: Training of Trainers Manual provides guidance for running training of trainers and bring agricultural extension staff, NGO staff and able farmers up to the point of being good farmer field school facilitators. It continues the tradition of teaching, as the facilitators will teach – focusing on [...]

REAL stands for Rural Ecology and Agricultural Livelihoods. REAL Education is an integrated learning process in which school children explore what is happening on local farms, gain an understanding of ecology, and develop critical thinking skills with respect to environmental, health and social problems. REAL Education is now an international movement, [...]

This manual encourages the agricultural sector, AIDS programmes and NGOs to assist farming communities in their efforts to build their resilience and reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.

Using survey-data from Peru, this paper evaluates the impact of a pilot farmerfield-school (FFS) program on farmers’ knowledge of integrated pest management (IPM) practices related to potato cultivation. We use both regression analysis controlling for participation and a propensity score matching approach to create a comparison group similar to the FFS [...]

Through simple experiments provided by the manual, you will learn the basic science of soil and water management. You will also be facilitated to identify constraints and problems in your production system and learn how to identify possible solutions

This paper, as a part of a report from an international learning workshop, describes how farmer field schools have been adopted in the nationally designated poverty county of Huoshan, Anhui, with the support of a bilateral poverty alleviation project to meet the needs of farmers and help them to help [...]

The document presents the implementation of FFS for dairy farmers in Kenya as a response to endemic diseases, particularly tick-borne diseases (TBD).