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Eastern Africa continues to face acute and chronic food insecurity and malnutrition. Combined with a high incidence of conflict and security issues, displacement and natural disasters, food security continues to affect a high proportion of the population, jeopardizing marginalized households’ health, economic and social wellbeing. Thus, there is a growing [...]

It is an instructional video on Institutionalizing the Farmer Field Schools methodologies in institutions of higher learning in Eastern Africa. It focuses on key steps needed to complete the process, spanning Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. The FFS video highlights also the importance of why institutions of higher learning should consider [...]

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developed this guidance note to assist FFS master trainers and facilitators bring about climate change adaptation in FFS. The guide provides key information on how the climate is changing, and how these changes are impacting the agricultural (crops and livestock), [...]

This documentary features field experiences from Welthungerhilfe beneficiaries in Arua, Uganda, under the RIAS Project following integration of nutrition component into the Farmer Field Schools (FFSs).

Use of Solar Powered Smart Projector in Bihar by Young Entrepreneur. Extension for landless.

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.

Malnutrition is a major problem faced by smallholder farmers and Indigenous peoples. Agrobiodiversity holds the key to diversify and improve the nutritional quality of their diets. This course has been organized in order to help potential master trainers in preparing and conducting the trainings of trainers (ToT) for Farmer Field [...]

This document aims at providing a guideline for the development of farmer field school (FFS) curricula on Nutrition and Local Food Plants with a gender approach, which is part of the SD=HS program. The FFS on Nutrition and Local Food Plants aims at contributing to the SD=HS objective on improving [...]

This document aims at providing a guideline for the implementation of a baseline survey to capture information on nutrition and local food plants, which corresponds to the work on nutrition (third Pillar) of the “Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security” Program (SD=HS). SD=HS is a global program, currently implemented by consortium partners in [...]