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The Farm Business School consists of a package of training materials intended to inform policy makers, train FBS facilitators and train farmers. The Training of Facilitators Programme is classroom-based and of a short 15 day duration. The Training of Farmers Programme consists of a series of meetings that take place at farm level and run over an entire season. Learning about business occurs in the farmers’ own local environment where farmers can work in small groups at their own pace.
ILRI is developing a “Livestock Farmer Field School position paper” for ILRI management and board, and other interested parties that will address the fundamental question “How and with what intent should ILRI be working on FFS?” This comprehensive review is based on formal and grey literature, and experiences of the authors and a network of FFS contacts.
This publication is an attempt to capture a part of the story of IPM in Asia. No single volume can cover the entire length and breadth of this movement as it has progressed over the last two decades. We hope that others will continue to document and write in order to expand our knowledge and understanding of this important work while filling the many gaps left by this brief piece.
By: Pontius, J., Dilts, R. & Bartlett, A. (Eds.). (FAO. 2002) FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Bangkok