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This video illustrates a series of steps used in the community engagement approach, aiming at building community’s resilience to impacts of climate change. It presents interactive learning approach and tools for community facilitators or practitioners in creating Climate Smart Agriculture Farmer Field School.

This document builds on efforts by practitioners to improve FFS processes and adopt to new ways of facilitating farmer field school (FFS) processes including during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when governments imposed lockdowns across the globe, which made normal face-to-face facilitation difficult. This document is primarily intended to [...]

L’approche Champs-Écoles Producteurs (CEP) est introduite au Ghana en 1996, au Niger en 1999 et au Sénégal en 2000 via le projet « Gestion intégrée de la Production et des Déprédateurs (GIPD) » soutenu par la FAO. Cependant, l’institutionnalisation de l’approche CEP demeure un défi à telle enseigne que dans [...]

RECUEIL DE SUJETS SPECIAUX POUR LES CEAP ANIMES PAR LES FACILITATEURS LOCAUX ET TECHNICIENS

This guide zooms in on the Diagnostic phase module at the beginning of a Farmer Field School on Local Food Plants for Nutrition. This specific document is meant to help facilitators complete the diagnostic exercises which are part of a Farmer Field School (FFS). It summarizes the information on FFS diagnostic [...]

The online course “Farmer Field Schools on Farmer Seed Production and Marketing” is part of the program’s work on seed production for the local market. The objective of this work is (1) to improve farmers’ access to seed of well adapted crops and varieties not offered by the formal seed sector [...]

My master's dissertation research was completed in Cape Verde, focussing on the participatory approach to the agro-ecological transition of rural communities. In particular, the dissertation observed an aspect of the implementation of the FAO approach based on people-centred learning: the Farmer Field Schools (FFS). I designed and conducted several [...]

Mr. Daniel Baha, a seasoned FS Master trainer has been involved in the training and setting up of Aquaculture Field Schools (AFS). In this presentation, he outlines the project concept, the design and progress made to date in the field.

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 [...]