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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 [...]

The project develops and demonstrates a climate-smart farming system, which will be created by development of new agricultural technologies and a redesigned network of the existing African agri-food value chain to increase resilience, sustainability, and circularity. The deployment of the integrated chia-mushroom -pig biogas value chain contributes to the diversification [...]

Within the sustainable rural livelihood’s framework, Agrisolve has designed the WESOLVE program that targets women and young women smallholder farmers’ agriculture and financial inclusion ensuring easier access to resources for increased yield and livelihood improvements. Through WESOLVE, women are given access to arable land under in-grower schemes, input credit, good [...]

This project aims to enhance food security in Uganda, aligning with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2, focusing on "No Poverty" and "Zero Hunger." The key objectives include digitizing and commercializing smallholder farmers, improving their market access, ensuring product quality through traceability, and boosting household incomes. [...]

Existing scaling support methodologies often fail to consider the socially differentiated impacts, including gender effects, of innovation uptake. To address this gap, GenderUp was developed as a conversational tool to enhance the inclusivity, reflexivity, and responsiveness of scaling initiatives. GenderUp employs a five-stage process facilitated by trained facilitators, guiding teams [...]

La pomme de terre est une culture vivrière clé au Cameroun, cultivée principalement dans les régions du Nord-Ouest, de l'Ouest et de l'Adamaoua. Malgré une production de plus de 300 000 t par an, les rendements restent faibles en raison de défis techniques et socio-économiques. Pour améliorer la chaîne de [...]

La agricultura en Nicaragua ha seguido un modelo convencional que ha utilizado insumos inorgánicos y pesticidas, contaminando suelos, agua y el medio ambiente, especialmente en zonas afectadas por el monocultivo de algodón en los noventa. Para transformar este sistema hacia una producción sostenible y respetuosa con el medio ambiente, se [...]

Producers in the Karamoja region of Uganda, one of the poorest region in the country, face challenges related to persistent insecurity, vulnerability to climate change, illiteracy, poor physical infrastructure and access to services, as well as scarce extension services with an extremely low ratio of 1 extension officer for 1:1 [...]

NGO Development in Gardening (DIG) adapted the Farmer Field School (FFS) model to support the Batwa, an indigenous forest-dwelling community forcibly evicted from their ancestral land in the early 1990s for gorilla conservation purposes. Traditionally hunter-gatherers, the Batwa were displaced without compensation, resettled on marginal lands, barred from entering their [...]

Over three decades, Farmer Field Schools (FFS) have proven to be fertile spaces where women and men from farming communities generate, test, and adapt ideas that respond to local challenges and support food security and nutrition, climate resilience, ecosystem health and inclusive rural development. This brief speaks to rural development [...]