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Los Sistemas de Extensión y Transferencia de Tecnología Agraria (SETTA) son un elemento clave para acelerar la innovación agrícola y el cambio tecnológico (Evenson, 2001; Fan, Zhang, y Rao, 2004; Davis et al., 2010) y así contribuir a la reducción de la pobreza y al mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida [...]

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

La agricultura a pequeña escala en el Caribe es llevada a cabo por agricultores que operan en terrenos de hasta dos hectáreas, producen principalmente cultivos y en menor proporción se dedican a la ganadería o a la pesca artesanal y acuicultura a pequeña escala (Graham, 2012). No existen sistemas agrícolas [...]

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.

IDH reportage about a KTDA Farmer Field School in Kenya.

The study was conducted in 2011 to examine the role of FFS in enhancing skills of farming community in the central region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

A regular series of notes highlighting recent lessons emerging from the operational and analytical program of the World Bank‘s Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC). The World Bank, with the financial support of the Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF), is implementing the Alternative Indigenous and AfroDescendants and Agroforestry Project (COCOA – [...]

Farmer Field Schools' Master Trainers' course for Northern Uganda. In response to the pronouncement that Government programmes adopt Farmer Field Schools by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in 2008, FAO trained 21 frontline Government extension staff from Northern Uganda in the methodology. Graduated [...]

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 [...]

Farmers who participated in both Rainforest Alliance (RA) training and Farmer Field School (FFS) training had the highest increase in knowledge of GAPs between 2010 and 2012, followed by farmers who participated only in the RA training. Farmers trained for RA certification also had a significantly higher knowledge level in 2012 than the other [...]