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KARI’s Farmer Field School pilot project in Kenya

The KARI Farmer Field School (FFS) pilot project was initiated in March 2001 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. The project aims at incorporating the FFS approach in the Soil Management Project (SMP) and Legume Research Network Project (LRNP) of KARI. The first phase of these two projects ended in December 2000 some six years on the ground. Ten technologies were developed and were ready for scaling up at the end of the first Phase. The two projects adopted the FFS approach as one of the methodologies for scaling up the technologies because of the success it has had in Asia in dissemination of IPM technology. Since the FFS approach is new to most project staff in this region, the pilot project was designed to include a strong training component.

The project has six main activities:

1. Holding of a FFS sensitization workshop;
2. Training of Trainers course (TOT) on the FFS approach;
3. Development of farmer training curricula based on the technologies to be scaled up;
4. Development of monitoring and evaluation tools for the FFS approach;
5. Support of three MSc. students; and
6. Running about 45 FFS in five KARI centers.

More information in the project brief or contact Joseph Mureithi (KARI).

Reports and Publications

	Progress report of the KARI’s farmer field school pilot project	Download [15 pages, 87 kB]
	Mweri, B.A.M. and Khisa, G.S., 2001. Report of the trainers of trainers course on farmer field school methodology for KARI's soil management and legume research project. KARI, Nairobi.	Download [75 pages, 293 kB]

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