Number of documents: 102
Schools Without Walls - (Agro)Pastoralist Field Schools in the Horn of Africa
Audiovisual material
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
See how members of Arbale Pastoral Field School in Borana Zone, Southern Ethiopia are applying knowledge gained to implementing community managed disaster risk reduction action plans for the protection of vast areas of communal grazing lands.
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Farmer Field School in Kenya
Audiovisual material
2013 - The Sustainable Trade Initiative - IDH -
IDH reportage about a KTDA Farmer Field School in Kenya.
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Role of Farmer Field Schools in Enhancing skills of Farming Community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Impact assessment
2013 - Pakistan J. Agric. Res. - Amir Khatam, Sher Muhammad and Ijaz Ashraf
The study was conducted in 2011 to examine the role of FFS in enhancing skills of farming community in the central region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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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 – [...]
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts, Beverages/Spice crops
Institutionalising Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in Uganda
Audiovisual material
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Farmer Field Schools' Master Trainers' course for Northern Uganda.
In response to the pronouncement that Government programmes adopt Farmer Field Schools by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in 2008, FAO trained 21 frontline Government extension staff from Northern Uganda in the methodology. Graduated [...]
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Las Escuelas de Campo del MAP - diálogo de saberes hacia el empoderamiento de las familias rurales
Information on projects
2012 - The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) - Felicia Ramírez Agüero, Isabel A. Gutiérrez-Montes, Patricia Bartol
El Programa Agroambiental Mesoamericano (MAP, por sus siglas en inglés
Mesoamerican Agroenvironmental Program) del CATIE es una ambiciosa plataforma intersectorial cuyo fin es mejroar el bienestar en las áreas rurales de Mesoamérica. Con el apoyo de los gobiernos de Noruega, Suecia y Finlandia, el MAP trabaja de manera integrada y coordinada [...]
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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
Apropiación y aplicación de conocimientos y habilidades por familias cacaoteras en Bocas del Toro, Panamá. Resultados de las Escuelas de Campo de Proyecto Cacao Centroamérica
Case study
2012 - The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) - Juan Ramón Flor Vinces
El cultivo de cacao constituye un rubro de gran importancia social y económica en
Centroamérica, siendo una fuente de ingresos para más de 15000 familias. Aún así, en ocasiones la producción de cacao se ve limitada por problemas de manejo que pueden relacionarse con la existencia de pocas oportunidades de capacitación. [...]
Spanish
Production system: Fruits and Nuts, 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 [...]
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts
Global Farmer field school review challenges FFS programmes
Impact assessment
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - John Pontius
Global FFS review 2012
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