Number of documents: 98
Farmer Field Schools: A Systematic Review
Impact assessment
2013 - International Initiative for Impact Evaluation - Hugh Waddington; Birte Snilstveit, Jorge Hombrados, Martina Vojtkova, Daniel Phillips, Howard White
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Empowering Farmers to reduce Pesticide Risks
Impact assessment
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Alma Linda Morales-Abubakar Randall Arnst Do Kim Chung Jan Willem Ketelaar Piyatat Pananurak Suwanna Praneetvatakul Suon Seng Harry van der Wulp Betsy Walter-Echols Gerd Walter-Echols
This publication documents impact assessment work done on FAO supported community education for pesticide risk reduction efforts implemented through National IPM Programmes in Cambodia and Vietnam during the 2007-2012 period. Impact assessment on investments in capacity building and education
programmes is notoriously difficult. Using science-based research methodologies, the impact assessment [...]
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Innovative Training in Cocoa Agroforestry: the Farmer Field Schools of Nicaragua
Information on projects
2012 - The World Bank - Mary Lisbeth Gonzalez
A regular series of notes highlighting recent lessons emerging from the operational and analytical program of the World Bank‘s Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC).
The World Bank, with the financial support of the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF), is implementing the Alternative Indigenous and AfroDescendants and Agroforestry Project (COCOA – [...]
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Production system: Fruits and Nuts, Beverages/Spice crops
Sustainable Tea Production: an Assessment of Farmer Field Schools in Kenya
Impact assessment
2012 - LEI - Sabine Hiller, Davies D. Onduru, André de Jager
Farmers who participated in both Rainforest Alliance (RA) training and Farmer
Field School (FFS) training had the highest increase in knowledge of GAPs
between 2010 and 2012, followed by farmers who participated only in the RA
training. Farmers trained for RA certification also had a significantly higher
knowledge level in 2012 than the other [...]
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Community Mobilization: a Key to Effective Control of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt
Impact assessment
2012 - Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics - Kubiriba J., Karamura E. B., Jogo, W., Tushemereirwe W. K. and Tinzaara W.
Banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) remains a major threat to banana, an important food and income crop for 12 million poor small-holder farmers in Uganda. Although, BXW has been controlled to some extent in parts of South-western Uganda, it is still a big problem in banana growing areas of Central and [...]
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Production system: Fruits and Nuts
Sustainable Intensification of Agricultural Production: The Essential Role of Ecosystem-Literacy Education for Smallholder Farmers in Asia
Case study
2012 - Biology Education for Social and Sustainable Development - Jan Willem Ketelaar, Alma Linda Abubakar
The article focuses on a sustainable intensification of agricultural production without the dependence of pesticides. It takes into account the work that FAO has done with Asian governments in improving IPM strategies.
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Coping with changes in cropping systems: plant pests and seeds. In: Building resilience for adaptation to climate change in the agriculture sector
Case study
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - M. Allara, S. Kugbei, F. Dusunceli and G. Gbehounou
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Farmer Field Schools as a vehicle to help vulnerable smallholder farmers develop climate resilient farming systems: experiences based on FAO's work in South and Southeast Asia
Advocacy and policy
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Jan Willem Ketelaar, Alma Linda M. Abubakar
Short presentation.
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Sustainable Crop Production Intensification in the Senegal and Niger River Basins of Francophone West Africa
Key documents on FFS
2011 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability - William Settle and Mohamed Hama Garba
This paper reports on how the farmer field school (FFS) approach has been used to successfully catalyse important changes among stakeholders in the savannah zones of West Africa. Improved agronomic practices, better decision-making skills and diversification of smallholder farms in developing countries are shown to provide farmers the opportunity to [...]
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Production system: Crops, Cereals, Vegetables and Melons
Scaling-up of Farmers Field School (FFS) in Peru. CIP's contribution to the process
Technical background material
2011 - International Potato Center (CIP) - Jose Tenorio, Ricardo Orrego, Oscar Ortiz
The FFS method was introduced and adapted to potato-related problems in Peru by the International Potato Center (CIP) and the NGO CARE-Peru in 1997. Since then, a scaling-up process of the methodology has taken place following three phases: 1) validation (1997-1999) in which CIP and CARE adapted and assessed FFS; [...]
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