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4 page brochure that describes the Caisses de Résilience approach - Consolidating community resilience by strengthening households’ social, productive and financial capacities through an integrated approach.

English/Arabic version. Farmer Field Schools (FFS) are based on an innovative, participatory and interactive learning approach in which farmers are empowered to direct the learning process. Groups of 25-35 farmers meet regularly to consult and make decisions on project implementation, with the support of facilitators. Within the project funded by DFID, [...]

Con esta guía se busca ofrecer a las personas facilitadoras de las Escuelas de Campo Ganaderas del Proyecto Ganadería Sustentable (Fortalecimiento de las capacidades para la identificación e implementación de tecnologías silvopastoriles y buenas prácticas ganaderas en la comunidad de El Barrio La Soledad como estrategia para reducir la emisión [...]

Esta guía proporciona información básica para comprender y aplicar la metodología de las ECAs como alternativa de trabajo de los profesionales de estensionismo.

The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach has been very successful and witnessed a strong expansion in many areas beyond crop production. Notwithstanding this success, the adoption of FFS in national extension often remains problematic and FFS activities have often been implemented in the margin of national institutions with strong reliance [...]

More than 22,000 farmers on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, off the Tanzanian coast, have gone back to school. Although they have farmed for generations, they have decided to learn how to farm. Their productivity has increased so much, that the local Government has made these Farmer Field Schools [...]

Cette étude vise : (1) à montrer l’importance de la prise en compte des savoirs locaux dans l’amélioration de la production agricole au niveau d’une région fragilisée par des crises écologiques et climatiques ; (2) à présenter les outils de partage de l’information sur ces pratiques agricoles en vue de [...]

The FAO Dimitra community listeners’ clubs are groups of women, men and young people – mixed or not – who decide to organize themselves so as to work together to bring about changes in their communities. They meet regularly to discuss the challenges they face in their daily lives, make [...]

The objective of this study was to determine the impact of Farmer Field Schools on farmer's adoption of IPM options for onion in the Gezira State. Field surveys were used to collect data from three Farmer Field Schools in the Gezira State in the 2010/2011 growing season. All FFS participants [...]

El Programa Agroambiental Mesoamericano (MAP, por sus siglas en inglés Mesoamerican Agroenvironmental Program) del CATIE es una ambiciosa plataforma intersectorial cuyo fin es mejroar el bienestar en las áreas rurales de Mesoamérica. Con el apoyo de los gobiernos de Noruega, Suecia y Finlandia, el MAP trabaja de manera integrada y coordinada [...]