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Innovating for continued Farmer Field School engagement amidst COVID-19 uncertainties
News 22 May 2020
“Even after we learn how to live with COVID-19, our households will need food, farmers will need the knowledge that we are learning from ongoing farmer field school studies. We are just happy to be able to continue with FFS...
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Event 16 April 2020 - 16 April 2020
Ce webinaire explorera les expériences acquises au fil des années, ainsi que les défis et les possibilités de soutenir et d'encourager l'introduction de la nutrition dans les programmes des champs-écoles des producteurs. Il s'adresse à tous les acteurs sur le...
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Universities across three Eastern African nations integrate Farmer Field School methodology into curricula
News 15 April 2020
For Lilian Dama Kadenge, farming was the last possible option. She once declared that she would rather take up menial jobs than turn to farming. However, when a local university professor came to teach about good agricultural practices, curiosity got...
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Increasing community resilience to climate change through Farmer Field School Master Trainers’ course in Malawi
News 06 April 2020
Malawi’s ecosystems are vulnerable to the negative effects of climate change, especially recurrent flash floods, dry spells, and droughts. Over time, the consequences of those events combined with poverty, an over-dependence of rain-fed agriculture, land degradation and limited productivity have...
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Students become the teachers: How learning from the youth doubled the rice production of a 63-year old farmer
News 31 March 2020
“I’ve been a farmer all my life. I had not received any training in agriculture and only used my local knowledge,” says Yohana Zablon (63), a smallholder farmer from Njage Village in Morogoro, Tanzania. “A few months ago, I was approached...
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