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Farmer Field Schools (FFS) are helping rural women and men in Egypt’s newly cultivated lands to boost production, adapt to climate change and strengthen their voice in their communities. Under the IFAD-supported Sustainable Agriculture Investments and Livelihoods (SAIL) project, thousands of small-scale farmers have gained practical, hands-on training in crops, [...]

Developed under FAO’s RENOFARM (Reduce the Need for Antimicrobials on Farms for Sustainable Agrifood Systems Transformation) initiative, this practical manual serves as a complementary resource for livestock Farmer Field School (FFS) facilitators. It introduces established social and behavioural science methods and frameworks, offering an innovative lens to address the persistent [...]

Ce document s’appuie sur les efforts déployés par les praticiens pour améliorer les processus des champs-écoles des producteurs et adopter de nouvelles méthodes de facilitation de ces processus, notamment au plus fort de la pandémie de covid-19, lorsque les gouvernements ont imposé des confinements dans le monde entier, ce qui [...]

The Farmer Field Schools (FFS) approach promotes learning through participatory methods, knowledge and experience exchange, and direct observation through hands-on exercises in the field, discussions and decision-making. It builds on local knowledge while testing and validating scientific concepts developed elsewhere. FAO is working on ensuring the sustainability of FFS at [...]

This video illustrates a series of steps used in the community engagement approach, aiming at building community’s resilience to impacts of climate change. It presents interactive learning approach and tools for community facilitators or practitioners in creating Climate Smart Agriculture Farmer Field School.

This document builds on efforts by practitioners to improve FFS processes and adopt to new ways of facilitating farmer field school (FFS) processes including during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, when governments imposed lockdowns across the globe, which made normal face-to-face facilitation difficult. This document is primarily intended to [...]

L’approche Champs-Écoles Producteurs (CEP) est introduite au Ghana en 1996, au Niger en 1999 et au Sénégal en 2000 via le projet « Gestion intégrée de la Production et des Déprédateurs (GIPD) » soutenu par la FAO. Cependant, l’institutionnalisation de l’approche CEP demeure un défi à telle enseigne que dans [...]

RECUEIL DE SUJETS SPECIAUX POUR LES CEAP ANIMES PAR LES FACILITATEURS LOCAUX ET TECHNICIENS

This guide zooms in on the Diagnostic phase module at the beginning of a Farmer Field School on Local Food Plants for Nutrition. This specific document is meant to help facilitators complete the diagnostic exercises which are part of a Farmer Field School (FFS). It summarizes the information on FFS diagnostic [...]

The online course “Farmer Field Schools on Farmer Seed Production and Marketing” is part of the program’s work on seed production for the local market. The objective of this work is (1) to improve farmers’ access to seed of well adapted crops and varieties not offered by the formal seed sector [...]