“Look, education simply changes you”, stated Thierno after participating in a Farmer Field School (FFS) in Senegal. “In FFS, I realized how much potential women have to learn, what kind of really good decisions they are able to make. In...
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Farmer field schools (FFS) were developed over 30 years ago as an alternative to more top-down extension models so that farmers could engage in participatory learning, particularly through field experiments. While focusing on empowering farmers in general, FFS have often...
16 May 2023
“Now I can help meet my family needs, for example those related to the health and education of my children,” stated a participant of one of the women-only farmer field schools (FFS) from Lahj, Yemen. 231 women-only Farmers Field...
Kawkab Al-Yassin’s entrepreneurial initiative in rural Homs has been a lifeline for her neighbours. The mother of three from west Al-Farhaniyah, rural Homs, is making use of her knowledge to manage a production network of ‘mooneh’ - homemade preserved food-,...
On 6 December 2021 FAO in collaboration with the Government of Malawi’s Ministry of Agriculture kicked off a 21-day farmer field and life schools (FFLS) course for facilitators in Mchinji district. This course aims to build the capacity of extension...