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Through the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with the financial support of the United Kingdom, developed semi-intensive egg production for communities hosting Syrian refugees.

Recurrent drought, degraded rangelands and reduced access to traditional grazing lands have left pastoral communities in the Horn of Africa’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) more vulnerable and facing severe livestock feed shortages. During dry spells, pastoral communities suffer from food and nutrition insecurity, as well as shrinking incomes occasioned [...]

L’ambition du projet est de créer une synergie de dialogue entre des scientifiques, des acteurs du développement et des acteurs de la société civile engagés dans la définition de pratiques pastorales résilientes dans la zone du Ferlo Sénégalais. La création de dialogues impliquant l’ensemble des acteurs concernés et notamment les pasteurs, [...]

A brief presentation that clarifies key information on FFS and Pastoralist Field Schools.

Con esta guía se busca ofrecer a las personas facilitadoras de las Escuelas de Campo Ganaderas del Proyecto Ganadería Sustentable (Fortalecimiento de las capacidades para la identificación e implementación de tecnologías silvopastoriles y buenas prácticas ganaderas en la comunidad de El Barrio La Soledad como estrategia para reducir la emisión [...]

La presente guía para el desarrollo de las Escuelas de Campo para Agricultores (ECA) en sistemas silvopastoriles agroecológicos busca, a partir de las experiencias y el trabajo realizado en el municipio de Calamar, Guaviare, brindar a los técnicos facilitadores y productores las herramientas metodológicas, técnicas, prácticas y conceptuales para el [...]

Pastoralist Field Schools (PFS)1 evolved in Kenya in 2006 as an adaptation to the more commonly applied Farmer Field School (FFS) approach. Increasing interest among state and non-state actors has resulted in a number of PFS interventions across the region. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), within the [...]

See how members of Arbale Pastoral Field School in Borana Zone, Southern Ethiopia are applying knowledge gained to implementing community managed disaster risk reduction action plans for the protection of vast areas of communal grazing lands.