Number of documents: 63
Smallholder agricultural technology development in Soroti district: Synergy between Naads and Farmer Field Schools
Case study
2004 - Uganda Journal of Agricultural Sciences - E. Friis-Hansen, C. Aben, M. Kidoid
English
Production system:
Environmental educational for Poor Farmers
Impact assessment
2004 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Peter A. C. Ooi - Gerd Walter-Echols - Dai Weidong - Alma Linda Morales - Abubakar Lim - Guan Soon Palaniswamy - Pachagounder Manzoor - H. Soomro - Cesar Galvan - Francesca Mancini - Rikke Petersen - Kevin Kamp
More than half of the world’s cotton is produced by Asian farmers, the majority of them small landholders with plot sizes of less than one-half hectare. Within Asia, cotton production is diverse and this diversity manifests itself among the countries participating in the FAO-EU Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Programme for [...]
English
Production system: Crops, Others
Development and linkages of Farmer Field Schools and other platforms for participatory research and learning
Technical background material
2003 - International Learning Workshop on Farmer Field School - Elske van de Fliert, Graham Thiele, Dindo Campilan, Oscar Ortiz, Ricardo Orrego, Modesto Olanya, Stephen Sherwood
The International Potato Center used the farmer field school (FFS) model in several of its research and development activities on potato and sweet potato integrated pest, disease and crop management as a platform for participatory research (PR) and/or farmer learning. Four approaches are roughly distinguished based on how the FFS [...]
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English
Production system: Root/Tuber crops
The journey towards self-financed Farmer Field Schools in East Africa
Case study
2003 - Users' Perspectives with Agricultural Research and Development (UPWARD) - James R. Okoth, Godrick S. Khisa, Thomas Julianus
In East Africa, FFS are being used to address several sustainable livelihood aspects with integrated production and pest management (IPPM) as the entry point. The effectiveness of the FFS as a vehicle for achieving the goals hinges on their fiscal sustainability by the communities and local governments. In this regards, [...]
English
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Hacia Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores auto-financiadas
Technical background material
2003 - LEISA Revista de Agroecología - Godrick Simiyu Khisa , James Robert Okoth , Julianus Thomas
La efectividad de las Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores depende, con frecuencia, de su sostenibilidad financiera. Este artículo echa una mirada a las diferentes innovaciones para lograr la sostenibilidad financiera de las ECAs, que fueron desarrolladas por el Proyecto Piloto Sub-Regional del África Oriental en las Escuelas de Campo de [...]
Spanish
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El efecto de los sistemas institucionales en la calidad de las ECAs: el caso de un proyecto MIP en el Perú
Case study
2003 - LEISA Revista de Agroecología - Alfredo Malarín
Spanish
Production system:
Farmer field schools: Emerging issues and challenges. International Learning Workshop on Farmer Field Schools (FFS). Yogyakarta (Indonesia). 21-25 oct 2002.
Impact assessment
2002 - Users' Perspectives with Agricultural Research and Development (UPWARD) -
Global -
English
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Ten years of IPM Training in Asia from Farmer Field School to Community IPM
Key documents on FFS
2002 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - John Pontius, Russell Dilts, Andrew Bartlett
English
Production system:
Do Farmer Field School graduates retain and share what they learn?: an investigation in Iloilo, Philippines
Case study
2002 - Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education - Agnes C. Rola, Serlie B. Jamias, Jaime B. Quizon
The farmer field school (FFS) is a season long training of farmers involving participatory activities, hands-on analysis and decision making. Because it requires significant investments in time, trainers and other facilities, the approach can be an expensive way of diffusing new science-based knowledge and other information to farmers. However, if [...]
English
Production system: Cereals
Towards a holistic Farmer Field School approach for East Africa
Technical background material
2002 - LEISA Magazine - James Robert Okoth, Godrick Khisa and Julianus Thomas
The Farmer Field School (FFS) experiential learning and selfhelp development approach has become very successful in Southeast Asia in improving irrigated rice production, even beyond Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for which it was
initially designed (see LEISA Magazine Vol 17, No 3, pp 18-20). The approach is now also being used [...]
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