30 September 2019 - 04 October 2019
Annual Meeting Jamaica 2019
Effective and efficient agricultural extension and rural advisory services (RAS) are fundamental to support rural people to face existing and emerging challenges, and to improve their incomes and livelihoods, thus contributing to the achievement of...
25 September 2019
Antananarivo – More and more maize farmers in Madagascar’s Vatomandry district are becoming equipped with the information they need to sustainably manage the Fall Armyworm (FAW) pest, thanks to FAO’s hands-on Farmer Field Schools (FFS).
As a response to the high...
197 extension workers and lead farmers graduate from farmer field school master trainers’ course
June was a celebratory month at Mzuzu, Lisasadzi and Thuchila Residential Training Centres (RTCs) with 197 extension workers and lead farmers graduating from season-long Farmer Field School...
16 July 2019 - 18 July 2019
Over the past two decades, Livestock FFSs have been implemented/supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other development stakeholders in a wide range of environments and livestock production systems including pastoralism and agro-pastoralism; dairy,...
Port of Spain, Trinidad – Thirty-two farmers from Penal and Exchange in Trinidad successfully expanded their production knowledge of cassava through the Farmer Field Schools (FFS).
The project, funded by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and executed by the Food...