Number of documents: 18
Re-inventing agricultural trainings in times of COVID-19
Impact assessment
2021 - Oxfam Novib -
The spread of Covid-19, and the measures taken by authorities to contain it, meant an abrupt end to our ways of working. We shifted to internet and mobile phone connectedness, strengthened responsibilities of our partner organisations, and increased South-South communications directly between our partners, including cross-country exchange of experiences.
In this [...]
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English
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Young Entrepreneur brings Smart Learning
Audiovisual material
2020 - Access Agriculture -
Use of Solar Powered Smart Projector in Bihar by Young Entrepreneur. Extension for landless.
English
Production system: Crops, Vegetables and Melons, Fruits and Nuts, Pastures /Fodder trees
(Agro)Forestry, Advisory systems and extension, Agrobiodiversity, Agroecology, Climate change, Emergency/disaster risk reduction (DRR), Empowerment and social inclusion, Facilitation and non-formal education, Farm and enterprise management, Rural and producer organizations, Sustainable production intensification
Young Entrepreneur brings smart farmer learning
Case study
2020 - Access Agriculture -
Short story about how Digital for Development money D4D from Belgian Government has helped establish a Young Entrepreneur in Bihar, India using a solar powered smart projector.
English
Production system: Crops, Cereals, Vegetables and Melons, Fruits and Nuts, Pastures /Fodder trees
(Agro)Forestry, Advisory systems and extension, Agrobiodiversity, Agroecology, Climate change, Emergency/disaster risk reduction (DRR), Empowerment and social inclusion, Facilitation and non-formal education, Farm and enterprise management, Rural and producer organizations, Sustainable production intensification
Nutrition-sensitive Farmer Field Schools in Kenya’s Kalobeyei settlement
Information on projects
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Kalobeyei settlement was inaugurated in 2016 as an alternative to traditional refugee encampment, predicated on self-reliance and access to livelihoods, homegrown entrepreneurship, and household vegetable cultivation. Whereas Kakuma refugee camp provided free meals and services based on a model of temporary humanitarian aid, nearby Kalobeyei emphasized longer-term livelihood opportunities and [...]
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Manual for the Training of Trainers for Farmer Field Schools on Participatory Plant Breeding
Training material
2018 - Oxfam -
This manual provides instructions and background for the SD=HS Training of Trainers (ToT) courses. In these courses (which mostly take up around three weeks), trainers are prepared to facilitate a season of Farmer Field School activities on Participatory Plant Breeding. Topics include the organisation of a Farmer Field School, the [...]
Global -
English
Production system: Cereals, Fruits and Nuts
Institutionalizing Science Field Shops: Developing Response Farming to Climate Change
Case study
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Yunita T. Winarto, Sue Walker, Rhino Ariefiansyah, Adlinanur F. Prihandiani, Mohamad Taqiuddin and Zefanya C. Nugroho
Case study Science Field Shops (SFSs) in Indonesia promote farmers’ agrometeorological learning enabling them to adapt their farming activities to cope with increasing climate variability. Seven climate services forming the core of SFSs are based on transdisciplinary collaboration between farmers and scientists.
English
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Enhanced Climate Smart Farmers Field School
Audiovisual material
2016 - Agricultural Training Institute -
One of the innovative disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategies for agriculture is the implementation of the Climate Field Schools (CFS) that aims to teach farmers about the concept of climate change and how it affects their farming activities. The Philippine Climate Change Adaptation Project (PhilCCAP) through the [...]
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Distress migration and youth in protracted crises. The Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools approach
Technical background material
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Francesca dalla Valle, Laura Deotti
This guidance note outlines how increasing livelihood support and employment opportunities for youth can:
1. reduce distress migration, addressing it at its root causes in countries of origin, and help to address causes of instability or conflict;
2. meet the immediate livelihood needs of young IDPs and refugees and give them ‘portable’ [...]
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Preview Data: Assessing the impact of Farmer Field Schools on fertiliser use in China
Other
2015 - Initiative for Impact Evaluation - Nicholas Burger, Mary Fu, Kun Gu, Xiangping Jia, Krishna B Kumar, Guo Mingliang
In China, a major agricultural challenge is the inefficient use of fertilizer and the environmental effects associated with this overuse. China’s farmers use more fertilizer per hectare (more than 200 kg/ha) than farmers anywhere else in the world except for Japan, The Netherlands and South Korea. Existing studies have shown [...]
English
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Escolas de campo para agricultores. Prácticas fundamentais para implementadores de RRC
Key documents on FFS
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Godrick Simiyu Khisa, James Okoth e Erin O´Brien
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