March 8, 2022. “Planes with pesticides would spray the fields where my father toiled to ensure banana production in the 70’s’.”
Carmen recalls her childhood, growing up on a Banana Plantation, in the coastal district of Saramacca in Suriname.
Starting as a...
28 April 2022 - 28 April 2022
Workshop of the Anglophone West African FFS Network
Overall Goal: To establish a Regional FFS Network that will nurture, develop, study, adapt and promote FFS as an effective participatory extension strategy/approach for sustainable agricultural development in the Anglophone West...
Marina Rukhaia is a 57 years old women IDP from the village Dranda, Abkhazia. After the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, she moved with her family to St. Petersburg in Russia where they lived for 2 years, after which the family decided to...
10 April 2022 - 14 April 2022
The 14th European Farming Systems Conference (IFSA – European Group) will be held in the University of Évora, Portugal, and hosted by the Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development (MED), from from 10 – 14 April 2022. The main focus of this years’...
Breeding and raising sheep are complex tasks requiring rich, traditional experience. In this aspect, Farmer Field School (FFS) platforms are now helping farmers’ education and empowerment in Azerbaijan and assist them in achieving sustainable food production and improve livelihoods through...