Number of documents: 22
Enabling "Response-ability": A stocktaking of farmer field schools on smallholder forestry and agroforestry
Advocacy and policy
2023 - FAO -
Forestry and agroforestry education and extension programmes for forest and farm communities have not kept up with needs in many places. However, the success of achieving international sustainability goals and implementing global commitments with respect to sustainable production, halting land degradation, ecosystem restoration and climate change mitigation is contingent on [...]
Global -
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops, Pastures /Fodder trees
Enabling farmer-led ecosystem restoration: Farmer field schools on forestry and agroforestry
Training material
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN -
Agricultural expansion is responsible for almost 90 percent of deforestation worldwide, making it a leading driver of biodiversity and habitat loss. Cropland expansion is the main driver, causing almost 50 percent of global deforestation, followed by livestock grazing, which accounts for 38.5 percent. This situation of great concern presents a [...]
Global -
English
Production system:
What have we learned from trees? Three decades of farmer field schools on agroforestry and forestry
Impact assessment
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Over the last three decades, Farmer Field Schools (FFS) have proven to be an effective discovery-learning-capacity building approach to help rural populations to innovate with more clarity and purpose while building the social skills needed for rural transformation and empowerment. The diverse forestry and agroforestry applications of the FFS demonstrate [...]
Global -
English
Production system:
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
Agroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi series: Evaluation of the Agroforestry Farmer Field Schools on Agroforestry Management in South and Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
Impact assessment
2016 - Agroforestery Centre - Endri Martini, Ummu Saad, Yeni Angreiny, James M. Roshetko, Hendra Gunawan, Heru T. Maulana, Gusti Suganda, Gusti Dwipayana, La Ode M Erwin, Abdul Hadedi
The Agroforestry Farmer Field School (AFFS) is a program implemented through the Agroforestry and Forestry: Linking Knowledge to Action (AgFor) project that seeks to improve the agroforestry garden management capacity of smallholder farmers in several provinces of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. In principle, the method implemented in AFFS follows the participatory [...]
English
Production system: Fruits and Nuts, Beverages/Spice crops
Farmer Field Schools Approach for Agroforestry & Natural Resource Development
Technical background material
2016 - JICA and Orimia Bureau of Agriculture - JICA and Orimia Bureau of Agriculture
This is a 8 page brochure of FFS for social forest extention in Ethiopia.
English
Production system:
Intégration de la Résilience Climatique dans la Production Agricole pour la Sécurité Alimentaire en Milieu Rural au Mali. Fiche (1) signalétique de mesures d’ACC. Déchiffrage.
Information on projects
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
French
Production system:
Évaluation finale du projet: Intégration de la résilience climatique dans la production agricole pour la sécurité alimentaire en milieu rural au Mali
Information on projects
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
French
Production system:
Farm Forestry Field Facilitator Manual
Training material
2013 - Danish Forestry Extension - Edited by Josipa Bicanic and Karsten Raae
A FFS manual on farm forestry.
Global -
English
Production system: Others