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Senegal has had extensive experience with the development and implementation of the farmer field school (FFS) approach across almost two decades. Building on this experience and that of the first phase of the scoping exercise conducted in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region (and using the same methodology), [...]

This report unpacks and explores farmer-managed seed systems and their contribution to food and seed sovereignty, including the benefits they provide to farming communities as a part of their sociocultural, economic, spiritual and ecological livelihoods. The report highlights, exposes and explores how these systems work. It builds on reports of [...]

L’ambition du projet est de créer une synergie de dialogue entre des scientifiques, des acteurs du développement et des acteurs de la société civile engagés dans la définition de pratiques pastorales résilientes dans la zone du Ferlo Sénégalais. La création de dialogues impliquant l’ensemble des acteurs concernés et notamment les pasteurs, [...]

Programme sous-régional de "Gestion Intégrée de la Production et des Déprédateurs" (GIPD). "With COQUA (COmmercialization and QUAlity) module of IPM, I manage well the marketing of my onion production in the local market. In addition to that I feel that I have a perfect mastering of my production and my agricultural [...]

En plus du renforcement de capacités techniques, la GIPD a favorisé la mise en place d'une organisation des producteurs au Sénégal. L'Union des producteurs maraichers GIPD (UPM-GIPD), assure une bonne diffusion de l'approche et appuie ses membres dans la fourniture en intrants et la commercialisation de la production.

This paper reports on how the farmer field school (FFS) approach has been used to successfully catalyse important changes among stakeholders in the savannah zones of West Africa. Improved agronomic practices, better decision-making skills and diversification of smallholder farms in developing countries are shown to provide farmers the opportunity to [...]

Recent research on the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach in agriculture in developing countries has raised some doubts on the economic impacts of this concept and especially the knowledge diffusion effects from trained to non-trained farmers. Based on a study in Senegal this paper hypothesizes that the question of the [...]