Number of documents: 65
Gestion intégrée de la production et des déprédateurs du coton - Guide du facilitateur pour les Champs écoles des producteurs
Training material
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Anne-Sophie Poisot, Tiko Hema
Ce document fait partie d’une série de guides élaborés dans le cadre du programme sous-régional en Gestion intégrée de la production et des déprédateurs (GIPD) en Afrique de l’Ouest, coordonné par l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO). Le programme utilise l’approche par Champ école des producteurs ou [...]
French
Production system: Others
Farmer field schools as a Transformative Learning Space in the Rural African Setting
Case study
2013 - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Deborah Duveskog
The aims of this research was to understand how education in the rural African faming setting can contribute to development and well-being in a way that is empowering for the poor. The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach provided an empirical frame for the research. By reflecting on experiences of FFS [...]
English
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Dimitra Community Listeners' Clubs for Food Security and Women's leadership
Audiovisual material
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
The FAO Dimitra community listeners’ clubs are groups of women, men and young people – mixed or not – who decide to organize themselves so as to work together to bring about changes in their communities. They meet regularly to discuss the challenges they face in their daily lives, make [...]
English
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Global Farmer field school review challenges FFS programmes
Impact assessment
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - John Pontius
Global FFS review 2012
English
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Factors associated with Performance of Farmer Field School as Extension Approach to Cocoa Production in Osun State, Nigeria
Case study
2012 - Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development - Adisa B.O. and Adeloye K.A.
The study focused on factors associated with performance of Farmer Field
School (FFS) as extension approach to cocoa production in Osun State,
Nigeria.
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Sharing Ideas between Cultures with Videos
Other
2011 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability - Jeffery Bentley, Paul Van Mele
Civil servants, agricultural researchers, extension people and media experts often think that videos for farmers need to be filmed locally, so that the audience identifies with the actors. But this is not so. Farmers in southwestern and northern Nigeria reacted to videos on rice seed health (made in Bangladesh), on [...]
English
Production system: Cereals
Sustainable Crop Production Intensification in the Senegal and Niger River Basins of Francophone West Africa
Key documents on FFS
2011 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability - William Settle and Mohamed Hama Garba
This paper reports on how the farmer field school (FFS) approach has been used to successfully catalyse important changes among stakeholders in the savannah zones of West Africa. Improved agronomic practices, better decision-making skills and diversification of smallholder farms in developing countries are shown to provide farmers the opportunity to [...]
English
Production system: Crops, Cereals, Vegetables and Melons
Is Pesticide Use Sustainable in Lowland Rice Intensification in West Africa?
Case study
2011 - Agricultural and Biological Sciences - F. E. Nwilene
English
Production system: Cereals
Farmer Knowledge as an Early Indicator of IPM Adoption: a Case Study from Cocoa Farmer Field Schools in Ghana
Case study
2011 - Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa - Soniia David and Christopher Asamoah
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
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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