Global Farmer Field School Platform
Number of documents: 733

Pautas para Facilitadores de Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores

Training material

2001 - PROINPA - PROINPA
Este documento se divide en tres grandes áreas: La primera porte contiene temas sobre principios, diseño, preparación, implementación, evaluación y seguimiento de ECAs. Como sabemos, para implementar una ECA el facilitador debe pasar primero por un proceso de capacitación de por lo menos tres meses, en ese sentido, esta parte será [...]
Spanish
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Guidelines and reference material on integrated soil and nutrient management and conservation for Farmer Field Schools - Reference material for the module on tillage

Training material

2001 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
The aim of this module is to assist farmers to adopt improved tillage systems and implements, or to modify their existing systems and implements, so as to be better adapted to the agroecological and socio-economic environment, cropping and farming systems.
English
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Escuelas de campo: Guía del Facilitador

Technical background material

2001 - COSUDE, Zamorano - COSUDE, Zamorano
Manual para la implementación de ECA en manejo integrado de plagas
Spanish
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Fiscal sustainability of agricultural extension: the case of the Farmer Field School approach

Case study

2001 - The World Bank - Jaime Quizon, Gershon Feder, and Rinku Murgai
The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 briefly describes the farmer field school extension approach, while Section 3 discusses the potential of formal and informal farmer-led diffusion mechanisms to enhance the fiscal sustainability of this approach. Sections 4 and 5 present evidence on the fiscal sustainability issue from the [...]
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Report of the training of trainers course on Farmer Field School methodology for KARI’s soil management and legume research network project

Training material

2001 - Held at Egerton University - MWERI B.A.M., C.D.A.; KHISA S. GODRICK
The week long Training of Trainers (TOT) course on Farmer Field Schools (FFS) held at CMRT, Egerton University for sixty five researchers, extensionists and farmers was made possible through the sponsorship of the Rockefeller Foundation (RF), that has supported Soil Management Project (SMP) and Legume Research Network Project (LRNP) of [...]
English
Production system: Legumes

Facilitating Scientific Method as Follow-Up for FFS Graduates

Training material

2001 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Henk Van Den Berg
This manual is meant for those involved in facilitating farmer studies to farmer field school graduates. The tools and principles provided here improve planning and analysis of field studies and prepare trainers to facilitate scientific method to farmers. The manual is for study by individual trainers or for discussion at [...]
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Strategies for addressing gender issues through aquaculture programs: approaches by CARE Bangladesh

Case study

2001 - Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) of CARE Bangladesh - K.S. Debashish, M. Shirin, F. Zaman, M. Ireland, G. Chapman and M.C. Nandeesha
The Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) sector of CARE is exploring new ways to enhance women's participation and to empower them through aquaculture programs. Farmer field schools, participatory monitoring and evaluation, children's participation initiatives, family approaches and action research are some of the approaches that have been found to be effective [...]
English
Production system: Aquaculture, Fisheries

Working with resource-poor farmers to manage plant diseases

Case study

2001 - Plant Disease - The American Phytopathological Society - Rebecca Nelson, Christopher Mundt, Ricardo Orego, Oscar Ortiz, Marjon Fredrix, Jose Tenorio and Ngo Vinh Vien
The article presents and compares experiences in working with farmers to manage rice blast and potato late blight. In these cases, farmer groups learned about disease processes and management techniques, and tested promising crop varieties and breeding lines with the support of extension and research organizations
English
Production system: Cereals, Root/Tuber crops

Farmer Self-Surveillance of Pesticide Poisoning Episodes

Case study

2001 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report on one month pilot that covers pesticide poisoning and proposes a self-surveillance initiative to prevent it.
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Improving local cultivation of soybean in Indonesia through farmers' experiments

Impact assessment

2001 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Programme for Community IPM in Asia - H. Van den Berg and A. S. Lestari
The results of 86 replicated experiments on soybean (Glycine max) cultivation practices in eight provinces ± planned, conducted and analysed by farmers ± were examined to identify local differences in the effects of cultural practices on yield, and to explore the potential for farmers to improve their practices. Plant spacing [...]
English
Production system: Legumes