Number of documents: 116
Participatory common learning in groups of dairy farmers in Uganda (FFS approach) and Danish stable schools
Case study
2007 - DJF Animal Science - Mette Vaarst
English
Production system: Livestock, Large Ruminants
Building FFS networks in East Africa
Technical background material
2007 - LEISA Magazine - Arnoud R. Braun, James Robert Okoth, Habakkuk Khaamala and Godrick S. Khisa
English
Production system:
Influence of Farmer Field School Extension Approach on Smallholders’ Knowledge and Skills of Dairy Management Technologies in Molo division, Nakuru District of Kenya
Technical background material
2007 - Egerton University - John Abuga Makori
Implementation of Farmer Field School (FFS) extension approach in disseminating knowledge and skills on management technologies for crop production, crop pests, soil and water conservation (CPSWC) has had proven successes. To replicate its successes, FFS was extended to smallholder dairy production as an alternative to the conventional extension approaches (NFFS) [...]
English
Production system: Livestock, Large Ruminants
Agricultural extension in Africa and Asia
Technical background material
2007 - World AgInfo Project - Carl K. Eicher
The purpose of this review is to summarize the literature on the role of agricultural extension systems in helping smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia increase agriculture production and their livelihoods.
Near East and North Africa, West Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, South-East Asia, Global -
English
Production system:
Fertile ground? Soil fertility management and the African smallholder
Technical background material
2007 - Wageningen University - Michael Misiko
The focus in this thesis is to form a view of how well soil fertility research performs
within the ever shifting smallholder contexts. This study examined application of agroecological knowledge for soil fertility management by smallholder farmers, with the view
to enhancing the utility of research among resource-deprived farmers of western Kenya. [...]
English
Production system:
Practice makes perfect - participatory innovation in soil fertility management to improve rural livelihoods in East Africa
Technical background material
2007 - Wageningen University - Andre de Jager
This article focuses on the context of the Millenium development goals (MDG) and improving and maintaining soil fertility in Africa.
English
Production system:
Regional institutionalization and scaling-up of farmer study group (FSG) activities - workshop report
Technical background material
2007 - STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKSHOP - George Onyango
English
Production system:
Regional institutionalization and scaling up of farmer study group (FSG) activities phase 2 - institutional analysis
Technical background material
2007 - Danish agricultural Advisory Services & Danish Institute for International Studies - Esbern Friis-Hansen and Sanne Chipeta
An initiative to scale up and institutionalise farmer driven study groups in Eastern and Southern Africa, with a particular focus on commercialisation and market access
English
Production system:
Sharing seed and knowledge: farmer to farmer dissemination of agroforestry technologies in western Kenya
Technical background material
2006 - Agroforestry Systems - Evelyne Kiptot, Steven Franzel, Paul Hebinck, Paul Richards
This study was undertaken to identify farm and farmer characteristics that may influence dissemination of seed and knowledge of improved fallows and biomass transfer, to whom, how and what is disseminated. This was done by carrying out a formal and informal survey involving a random sample of 120 farmers from [...]
English
Production system:
Improving soil fertility and farm productivity under intensive crop-dairy smallholdings: experiences from Farmer Field Schools in the highlands of Kiambu district, Central Kenya
Case study
2006 - Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research - D.D. Onduru, A. De Jager, B. Wouters, F.N. Muchena, L. Gachimbi and G.N. Gachini
A study to improve soil fertility and farm productivity under intensive crop-dairy smallholder farming systems was carried out in Kiambu District, central Kenya highlands in the period 2003-2005 using farmer field school approach.
English
Production system: Crops, Livestock, Pastures /Fodder trees, Large Ruminants