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To feed a growing world population, there is a pressing need to increase crop production while ensuring sustainability and enhancing resilience to fa ce new challenges. This is particularly relevant to rice production in Asia, where increases in productivity are slowing and land, water and labour are moving out of [...]

Ce guide est destiné aux facilitateurs qui animent les formations participatives en gestion intégrée de la production et des déprédateurs à travers les Champs écoles des producteurs ou Champs écoles paysans (CEP) en Afrique de l’Ouest francophone. Il est une synthèse et une capitalisation des expériences de terrain des facilitateurs [...]

Ce document fait partie d’une série de guides élaborés dans le cadre du programme sous-régional en Gestion intégrée de la production et des déprédateurs (GIPD) en Afrique de l’Ouest, coordonné par l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO). Le programme utilise l’approche par Champ école des producteurs ou [...]

This brief is part of the series, A Field Guide for Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa: Key Practices for DRR Implementers, coordinated by the FAO Subregional Office for Disaster Risk Reduction/Management for Southern Africa.

Proyecto Gestión de Recursos Naturales y Cambio Climático de la Cooperación Suiza en Bolivia

FAO’s Junior and adult Farmer Field and Life Schools (J/FFLS) are addressing the root causes of gender-based violence and helping to prevent and mitigate the effects of HIV in northern Uganda through the provision of key life skills and knowledge in agricultural production and nutrition.

See how members of Arbale Pastoral Field School in Borana Zone, Southern Ethiopia are applying knowledge gained to implementing community managed disaster risk reduction action plans for the protection of vast areas of communal grazing lands.

The aims of this research was to understand how education in the rural African faming setting can contribute to development and well-being in a way that is empowering for the poor. The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach provided an empirical frame for the research. By reflecting on experiences of FFS [...]