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Farmer field schools (FFS) are a common approach used to transfer specialist knowledge, promote skills and empower farmers around the world. At least 10 million farmers in 90 countries have attended such schools. We conducted a systematic review of evidence on FFS implementation to investigate whether FFS make a difference, to [...]

Eastern and Central Africa continue to face acute and chronic food and nutrition insecurity1 . Combined with a high incidence of HIV, food security continues to affect the nutrition and health status of poor households. There is growing recognition of the vital importance of expanding agricultural development capacity to include nutrition [...]

Pastoralist Field Schools (PFS)1 evolved in Kenya in 2006 as an adaptation to the more commonly applied Farmer Field School (FFS) approach. Increasing interest among state and non-state actors has resulted in a number of PFS interventions across the region. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), within the [...]

Le présent guide a été élaboré pour harmoniser les approches de CEP de toutes les organisations et institutions œuvrant dans ce domaine et pour donner un impact durable au fil des interventions et indépendamment des Projets et ONG.

HHMs build on a growing understanding that, in many parts of the world, households are not cohesive units with shared needs, resources, benefits and goals. Rather, women and men in the same household often pursue separate livelihoods and are responsible for different production and consumption activities. Women usually have fewer [...]

The present study was conducted in the central region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan comprising seven districts: Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Mardan, Swabi, Kohat and Hangu, during 2010. The objective was to analyze the perceived effect of Farmer Field School (FFS) approach on farmers’ capacity in controlling pre- and postharvest losses. [...]

Proyecto Gestión de Recursos Naturales y Cambio Climático de la Cooperación Suiza en Bolivia

We estimate the impact of a Farmer Field School intervention among small-scale farmers in northern Tanzania on two main development objectives: food security and poverty. We employ a series of evaluation methodologies, including a Quasi-Difference-in-Difference setup, to account for potential selection into the project, despite lack of baseline data. We [...]