Events
Growing Field Schools: Global to Local Adaptations of Participatory Programs at UBC Botanical Garden
07 September 2018 - 0
07 September 2018 - 0
Growing Field Schools: Global to Local Adaptations of Participatory Programs at UBC Botanical Garden
In 2007, a lunch and learn session on FAO Farmer Field Schools inspired a young researcher to consider new ways of supporting participatory and people-centred programming for...
Refresher course on FFS Zero Budget Natural Farming
17 July 2018 - 20 July 2018
17 July 2018 - 20 July 2018
With support from FAO, the Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) programme in Andhra Pradesh is strengthening its use of non-formal education approaches and their application to ZBNF in particular on soils, initially in the Guntur district.
FAO and its partners have...
Seminar - Improving the livelihoods of small-scale livestock producers through the FFS approach
15 May 2018 - 15 May 2018
15 May 2018 - 15 May 2018
Livestock Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) are “schools without walls” where groups of small-scale livestock producers test and adapt good agricultural and marketing practices that help them to sustainably improve their, and their families’, livelihoods. Over the past two decades, Livestock...
Farmer Field School training of facilitators (ToF) in North-East Nigeria
07 May 2018 - 26 May 2018
07 May 2018 - 26 May 2018
The training of FFS facilitators started on the 7th of May and will last until the 26th of May in North East Nigeria. The training has been organised by the FAO office for North East Nigeria and will be facilitated...
Training Workshops for Farmer Field School trainers on “Farmer Field Schools for Fall Armyworm IPM”
09 April 2018 - 27 April 2018
09 April 2018 - 27 April 2018
FAO is organizing two sub-regional training workshops on Farmer Field Schools (FFS) for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of Fall Army Worm (FAW).
One workshop will be held in Yaoundé, Cameroun from the 9th to 15th of April and involve...