Number of documents: 188
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 [...]
English
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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
Las escuelas de campo del MAP-CATIE - práctica y lecciones aprendidas en la gestión del conocimiento y la creación de capacidades locales para el desarrollo rural sostenible
Technical background material
2012 - Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) - Isabel A. Gutiérrez-Montes, Patricia Bartol de Imbach, Felicia Ramírez, Julio López Payes, Eduardo Say, Karen Banegas
Este estudio proporciona evidencias claras acerca de las bondades de las
ECAS y de los impactos que pueden lograrse a partir de su uso apropiado, lo cual
confirma y refuerza la importancia de trabajar fuertemente en la promoción y uso
de las mismas como herramienta poderosa para la gestión del conocimiento en el
marco [...]
Spanish
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Sharing Ideas between Cultures with Videos
Other
2011 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability - Jeffery Bentley, Paul Van Mele
Civil servants, agricultural researchers, extension people and media experts often think that videos for farmers need to be filmed locally, so that the audience identifies with the actors. But this is not so. Farmers in southwestern and northern Nigeria reacted to videos on rice seed health (made in Bangladesh), on [...]
English
Production system: Cereals
Farmer Field School - The St Lucia Experience
Audiovisual material
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
European Community (EC) - Funded Special Framework of Assistance (SFA) to Agricultural Diversification in t he Windward Islands (SFA, 2006)
English
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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; [...]
English
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Evaluation of the Farmer Field School Approach in the Agriculture sector programme support - Phase II
Impact assessment
2011 - DANIDA - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Denmark -
The main purpose of this Evaluation was to analyse and to document – in a gender perspective – the results and the lessons learned from using the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach in the Agriculture Sector Programme Support Phase II (ASPS II) in Bangladesh.
The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the [...]
English
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Farmer Field School Facilitator’s Guide Horticulture Marketing and Agriculture for Jamaican Improved Competitiveness (MAJIC)
Training material
2011 - Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MOAF), Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) of Jamaica -
The goal of this program is to help Jamaican farmers improve the quantity, quality and consistency of horticulture crops. While this manual focuses on Scotch Bonnet Peppers and onions, the principles of farmer field school can be applied to any crop.
English
Production system: Crops, Fruits and Nuts
Farmer Field School. Implementation Guide. Farm Forestry and Livelihood Development.
Training material
2011 - Kenya Forest Service-FAO-JICA - Takayuki Hagiwara, Shinji Ogawa, Patrick M. Kairuki, Jane N. Ndeti, James M. Kimondo
English
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Plan de Agricultura Familiar. Guía para el establecimiento de Escuelas de Campo
Training material
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - FAO - El Salvador
Implementación de ECAs en contexto de El Salvador.
Spanish
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