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Farmer Field School(FFS) is an innovative initiative by Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty(SERP) - Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture (CMSA) to strengthen community participation in addressing farming problems of small and medium scale farmers. The local Village Activist and Cluster Activist organize Farmer Field School at a farmer's field. Prior [...]

Agricultural and economic data were collected from 4 farmer field schools (FFSs), divided over 2 districts in Kenya (Mbeere and Kiambu), during one growing season (March – August 2002). The FFSs in the Mbeere district were characterized by poor soil conditions and low rainfall, and falls within semi-arid areas. Contrarily, the [...]

Esta tesis tuvo como objeto estudiar las Escuelas de Campo-ECA en su papel como posibles generadoras de procesos organizacionales en tres grupos de paperos de tres municipios de la provincia del oriente de Cundinamarca

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 [...]

This manual-field guide is a compilation of recent developments, current practices, and success accounts in implementing integrated cultural management on seaweed production. We involved as many stakeholders as was possible in collating and compiling these notable achievements for use by seaweed farmers and other seaweed production practitioners. Thus, this manual-field [...]

Manual de la implementación de ECAs con un enfoque en cambio climático

Se presentan casos de estudio sobre ECA de diferentes países y sistemas de producción en el Caribe y analiza las medidas necesarias para la incorporación de métodos ECA en la extensión e investigación agrícola

18-19 September 2014, Rome, Italy

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 [...]