FAO launches global platform to spread the qualities of successful Farmer Field Schools

Le 14 et 15 décembre, le projet Intégration de la résilience climatique dans la production agropastorale à travers l’approche champs école organise une session de formation pour les Gouverneurs, les Directeurs d’Agence Régionale de Développement des régions du Senegal: Diourbel,...

A seminar on Farmer Field Schools (FFS) and Information and Communication Tecnology (ICT) was held on December 13th, at Kunming, the capital city of China's Yunnan Province. It was co-organized by National Agro-Technical Extension and Service Center, and Yunnan Plants Protection and Quarantine...

Originally applied among farmers thus labelled Farmer Field Schools (FFS) the approach has lately been applied in a large variety of contexts and among various target groups thus a number of adaptations of the approach.  These include the Pastoralist Field...

  Climate change is no new phenomenon. For decades changes in temperatures, precipitation, new and emergent pests, and loss of vegetative cover have been noted and documented. It is only after a direct effect on smallholder agricultural and pastoral production systems...