Глобальная платформа фермерских полевых школ
Number of documents: 561

Guía metodológica de Escuelas de Campo para Facilitadores y Facilitadoras en el proceso de extensión agropecuaria

Training material

2011 - INTA-Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Lorenzo Moreno Arévalo , Ariel Jaime Suárez, Diógenes Altamirano González , Jose Santos Tercero Bucardo, Dudley Simón López Sauceda
un instrumento para que los y las facilitadoras hagan uso de un conjunto de recomendaciones y procedimientos prácticos durante la implementación de Escuelas de Campo como parte del proceso de extensión que realiza el INTA y otras organizaciones afines.
Spanish
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Conservation Agriculture (CA) in Tanzania: the Case of the Mwangaza B CA Farmer Field School (FFS), Rhotia village, Karatu district, Arusha

Case study

2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Marietha Z. Owenya, Wilfred L. Mariki, Josef Kienzle, Theodor Friedrich and Amir Kassam
English
Production system: Cereals, Legumes

Farmer Knowledge as an Early Indicator of IPM Adoption: a Case Study from Cocoa Farmer Field Schools in Ghana

Case study

2011 - Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa - Soniia David and Christopher Asamoah
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops

Training and Visit (T&V) Extension vs. Farmer Field School: the Indonesian Experience

Technical background material

2011 - The Australian National University - Budy P. Resosudarmo, Satoshi Yamazaki
This paper aims to discuss and compare the effectiveness of these two programs (The Training and Visit (T&V) Extension Program and the Farmer Field School -FFS-Program) with reference to rice production in Indonesia. The findings suggest that, for regions where the level of development is still very low, implementing a [...]
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Diseño y aplicación de la metodologia ECA con enfoque de género y lengua en el departamento de Potosí - Bolivia (ECAMUQ)

Case study

2011 - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid - Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos - Marina Aldapi Herrera
Investigación doctoral que tiene el propósito de generar el diseno y la aplicación de la metodología de las Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores (ECA) con enfoque de género y lengua (ECAMUQ).
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The Empowerment Route to Well-Being: an Analysis of Farmer Field Schools in East Africa

Key documents on FFS

2011 - World Development - Esbern Friis-Hansen, Deborah Duveskog
The study explores empowerment and well-being related outcomes of Farmer Field Schools (FFS), an extension approach that has gained popularity with agriculture development programs in many African countries. This is done by examining the empirical relationships between FFS participation and increased well-being; as well as FFS participation and empowerment; and [...]
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Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Agricultural Income and Skills: Evidence from an Aid-Funded Project in Rural Ethiopia

Impact assessment

2011 - JICA-Research Institute - Yasuyuki Todo and Ryo Takahashi
This study estimates the effect of farmer field schools in rural Ethiopia on income from agriculture. The farmer field schools were established in association with participatory forest management associations for forest protection funded by Japanese aid. We employ a difference-in-differences propensity score matching approach to correct for possible biases due [...]
English
Production system: Others

Fish Farmer Field School: Towards healthier milkfish / shrimp polyculture and fish farmer empowerment in South Sulawesi

Case study

2011 - Aquaculture Asia - Ben Brown and Ratna Fadillah
Sustainable aquaculture in Indonesia through a Fish Farmer Field School.
English
Production system: Aquaculture, Fisheries