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...

  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...

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...

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...

    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...