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Facilitators’ Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Local Food Plants for Nutrition: Diagnosis phase

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2022 - Oxfam Novib - Gisella Cruz-Garcia, Hilton Mbozi, Bert Visser and Jorge Chavez-Tafur
This guide zooms in on the Diagnostic phase module at the beginning of a Farmer Field School on Local Food Plants for Nutrition. This specific document is meant to help facilitators complete the diagnostic exercises which are part of a Farmer Field School (FFS). It summarizes the information on FFS diagnostic [...]
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Farmer Field Schools on Farmer Seed Production and Marketing: Online course

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2022 - Oxfam Novib - Gisella Cruz-Garcia, Hilton Mbozi, Bert Visser and Jorge Chavez-Tafur
The online course “Farmer Field Schools on Farmer Seed Production and Marketing” is part of the program’s work on seed production for the local market. The objective of this work is (1) to improve farmers’ access to seed of well adapted crops and varieties not offered by the formal seed sector [...]
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Farmer Field Schools: building capacities to achieve a successful agroecological transition

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2022 - CIRAD -
The agroecological transition implies rethinking the way farmers are supported in their changes in practices. Farmer Field Schools are an effective mechanism in this respect since they build farmers’ capacity to experiment, to produce knowledge and to innovate independently. However, it is essential that these advisory services are correctly implemented, [...]
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How can the farmer field school approach be used to support agroecological transitions in family farming in the Global South?

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2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN -
The key to implementing FFS is thus to successfully launch an experimentation process based on collaboration between a group of farmers and a facilitator. The purpose of this document is to provide project managers, technicians and designers with practical information on how to use the FFS approach and adapt it [...]
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Methodological recommendations to better evaluate the effects of farmer field schools mobilized to support agroecological transitions

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2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN -
The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach, based on group experimentation of innovative practices and/or farming systems, is in line with participatory farm advisory efforts. This approach has an ambitious goal: strengthening farmers’ skills so that they can adapt their practices, or even invent new ones, and move towards more agroecological [...]
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Agroecology and Farmer Field Schools – a solution for Zero Hunger and Ecosystems Restoration

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2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN -
Sustainable food and agriculture are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. One of the ways of achieving Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment, and Better Life, leaving no one behind, is through agroecology. Agroecology helps ensure food and nutritional security, reduce poverty, mitigate climate change and [...]
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The participatory approach of agroecology transition. The case study of Farmer Field Schools in Cape Verde

Case study

2022 - University of Trento - Luca Serantoni
My master's dissertation research was completed in Cape Verde, focussing on the participatory approach to the agro-ecological transition of rural communities. In particular, the dissertation observed an aspect of the implementation of the FAO approach based on people-centred learning: the Farmer Field Schools (FFS). I designed and conducted several [...]
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Online course for Farmer Field Schools on Farmer Seed Production and Marketing

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2022 - Oxfam Novib -
The online course “Farmer Field Schools on Farmer Seed Production and Marketing” is part of the program’s work on seed production for the local market. The objective of this work is (1) to improve farmers’ access to seed of well adapted crops and varieties not offered by the formal seed sector [...]
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Production system: Crops, Vegetables and Melons, Fruits and Nuts, Root/Tuber crops, Legumes

How can the farmer field school approach be used to support agroecological transitions in family farming in the Global South?

Technical background material

2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) -
The key to implementing farmer field schools (FFS) is to trigger an experimentation process based on collaboration between a group of farmers and a facilitator. The purpose of this document is to provide project managers, technicians and designers with practical information on how to use the FFS approach and adapt [...]
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