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...

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...

Konya, Turkey – FAO Turkey celebrated the 30th anniversary of Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in Konya region within the scope of Sustainable Land Management and Climate Friendly Agriculture. FFS can be described as `Farmers’ participatory learning process`. It is an interactive...