This June 20 marks the opening of the celebrations of 30 years of Farmer Field Schools: farmers empowerment and changes towards sustainable and resilient food systems will be at heart of the discussions! Background Initiated by FAO in Asia, in1989, the...

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) took the recommendation from the pilot project evaluation in Malawi and Zimbabwe up and held the first Farmer Market School (FMS) master training courses in Addis Ababa from January 28th to 8th February 2019....

Farmer Field Schools successfully improve poorer farmers’ livelihoods through improved agricultural production and commercialization in Guangxi region, China.   In China, most impoverished people are small farmers. In the context of “Targeted Poverty Alleviation” – the anti-poverty campaign set by the Chinese...

KULIMA, a 5-year programme funded by the European Union and FAO and in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development of Malawi, has proven its success with its first harvest of healthy bunches of bananas. Malawi’s banana industry has...

The latest survey for the global FFS platform is being launched to evaluate the performance and quality of FFS online services. In early 2018, FAO setup the Global FFS Platform, in collaboration with a network of organizations. The platform was created...