Number of documents: 188
Development of Farm Field School methodology for small-holder dairy farmers in Kenya
Training material
2002 - International Livestock Research Institute - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Kenya - B. Minjauw , H.G. Muriuki, D. Romney
Paper for International FFS Workshop about the implementation of dairy farmers FFS in Kenya
English
Production system: Livestock, Large Ruminants
Ten years of IPM Training in Asia from Farmer Field School to Community IPM
Key documents on FFS
2002 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - John Pontius, Russell Dilts, Andrew Bartlett
English
Production system:
Guía metodológica para la implementación de Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores (ECAs)
Training material
2002 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Never Baras, Carlos Cerna Yrigoin, Lucio Cotrina Jonde, Julio Cesar Leon Chavez, Jesus Gonzalez, Kim Groeneweg, Easu Salazar Guerra, Jose Tenorio Mora, Cesar Valencia Cabrera
Esta guía enfatiza la parte metodológica en la implementación de una ECA, desde la selección de localidades y participantes, formación, desarrollo, evaluación, clausura
y seguimiento.
Basada en experiencias y recomendaciones que el personal del Proyecto GCP/PER/036/NET: "Manejo Integrado de Plagas en los Principales Cultivos Alimenticios en el Perú" tuvo en [...]
Spanish
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Guía para facilitar el desarrollo de Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores - Manejo integrado de las principales enfermedades e insectos de la papa - Caso San Miguel, Cajamarca, Perú
Training material
2002 - CIP-CARE - Mario Bazán (CARE), Reneé Castillo (CARE), Cristina Fonseca (CIP), Aziz Lagnaoui (CIP), Julio César León (CARE), Willmar León (CARE), Víctor León (CARE), Rebecca Nelson (CIP), Ricardo Orrego (CIP), Oscar Ortiz (CIP), María Palacios (CIP), Esaú Salazar (CA
Spanish
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
Do Farmer Field School graduates retain and share what they learn?: an investigation in Iloilo, Philippines
Case study
2002 - Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education - Agnes C. Rola, Serlie B. Jamias, Jaime B. Quizon
The farmer field school (FFS) is a season long training of farmers involving participatory activities, hands-on analysis and decision making. Because it requires significant investments in time, trainers and other facilities, the approach can be an expensive way of diffusing new science-based knowledge and other information to farmers. However, if [...]
English
Production system: Cereals
Towards a holistic Farmer Field School approach for East Africa
Technical background material
2002 - LEISA Magazine - James Robert Okoth, Godrick Khisa and Julianus Thomas
The Farmer Field School (FFS) experiential learning and selfhelp development approach has become very successful in Southeast Asia in improving irrigated rice production, even beyond Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for which it was
initially designed (see LEISA Magazine Vol 17, No 3, pp 18-20). The approach is now also being used [...]
English
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A Development Strategy to Empower Rural Farmers and Prevent HIV
Case study
2002 - UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Project - Jacques du Guerny, Lee-Nah Hsu, Sin Chhitna
In an effort to mainstream HIV resilience building in the agricultural sector, UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Project, in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programme, has pioneered an experiment called the Farmer Life Schools.
English
Production system:
Participatory research and training: ten lessons from the Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in the Andes
Case study
2001 - Currents - Swedish University of Agri-cultural Sciences (SLU) - G. Thiele, R. Nelson, O. Ortiz, and S. Sherwood
This article presents ten lessons learnt from the implementation of FFS in the Andes, South America.
English
Production system:
Escuelas de Campo. Guía del facilitador
Training material
2001 - Cosude, Zamorano -
La presente guía surge como uno de los productos del curso taller "Capacitación de Capacitadores en Manejo Integrado de Plagas: La Metodología de Escuelas de Campo", auspiciado por la Agencia Suiza para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación (COSUDE), a través de la Escuela Agrícola Panamericana "Zamorano" que desarrolla el Programa [...]
Spanish
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Training of Trainers - Manual for Livestock Farmer Field Schools
Training material
2001 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Bruno Minjauw (compiled by), Godrick Khise, Dorothy Maye, Benjamin Mweri, Andy Catley
Based on a participartory workshop held on the 17th TO 29th SEPTEMBER 2001,
MABANGA FTC, BUNGOMA, Kenya
English
Production system: Livestock, Large Ruminants