Number of documents: 9
Discovery-Based Learning in Land and Water Management. A Practical Guide for Farmer Field Schools
Training material
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The guide results from the accumulated lessons of many resource persons in many countries on supporting farmer field schools (FFS) in learning and adaptive management for sustainable land and water management. FAO supported the capacity development process through field projects and the field work that underlies the guide was conducted [...]
Global -
English
Production system:
Agricultural, Economic, and Environmental Performance of Four Farmer Field Schools in Kenya
Impact assessment
2014 - . - C.L. van Beek, A. de Jager, D.D. Onduru, L.N. Gachimbi
Agricultural and economic data were collected from 4 farmer field schools (FFSs), divided over 2 districts in Kenya (Mbeere and Kiambu), during one growing season (March – August 2002). The FFSs in the Mbeere district were characterized by poor soil conditions and low rainfall, and falls within semi-arid
areas. Contrarily, the [...]
English
Production system: Crops, Livestock
Farmer Field School in West Kalimantan, Indonesia - A Good Return Initiative
Audiovisual material
2014 - Good Return -
Learn about Good Return's Farmer Field School program run with our partner Credit Union Keling Kumang (CUKK) in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The program aims to improve the incomes of smallholder palm oil farmers by using sustainable agricultural techniques. This allows them to mitigate their environmental impact, improve the health of [...]
English
Production system: Oilseed crops
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
Sustainable Land Management in Practice. Guideline and Best Practices for Sub-Saharan Africa. Field Application
Training material
2011 - TerrAfrica, World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Hanspeter Liniger, Rima Mekdaschi Studer, Christine Hauert, Mats Gurtner
Production of guidelines for best sustainable land management (SLM) technologies and approaches in SubSaharan Africa (SSA) has been part of TerrAfrica’s programme during 2009-2010. These guidelines and case studies are intended to help create a framework for investment related to SLM in SSA. The particular aim of these guidelines is [...]
English
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Las Escuelas de Campo de Ganaderos: Una estrategia para promover la rehabilitación y diversificación de fincas con pasturas Degradadas
Case study
2007 - Archivos Latinoamericanos de Producción Animal - Danilo A. Pezo, Jorge Cruz y Maricel Piniero
La degradación de pasturas es un problema serio en América Tropical, pues se estima que entre un 50-80% de las áreas de pasturas están degradadas (Días-Filho, 2005), y sólo en América Central éstas representan casi 7 millones de hectáreas (Betancourt et al., 2007). Con frecuencia se acepta que las pasturas [...]
Spanish
Production system: Livestock, Pastures /Fodder trees, Large Ruminants
Farmer Field Schools on land and water management in Africa
Technical background material
2006 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Proceedings of an international workshop in Jinja, Uganda, 24–29 April 2006.
This publication is the coordinated work of the Land and Water Division of FAO, the Agricultural Economics Institute of Wageningen Agricultural University and Research Centre (LEI/WUR), Environment Alert, and other partners. It was produced as part of FAO’s Land and [...]
Near East and North Africa, West Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa - Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
English
Production system:
Guía metodológica ECAs
Training material
2005 - INIAP-CIP-World Neigbhbors - Manuel Pumisacho, Stephen Sherwood
Guía metodológica sobre ECAs basada en la recolección de información de América Central y Sud América.
Spanish
Production system:
Field Guide for Agroecosystem Areal Planning
Training material
1998 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Global -
English
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