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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.

This manual is part of FAO’s effort to promote sustainable intensification of smallholder crop production. It provides background information on the farmer field school approach and a compilation of field exercises as they are used in cassava farmer field schools. The guide is intended for use by farmer field facilitators [...]

The Pastoralist Field School (PFS) approach is an adaptation of the innovative, participatory and interactive learning approach; Farmer Field Schools (FFS). this manual will assist the PFS and Agropastoral Field Schools (APFS) community in expanding the approach in a harmonised manner with attention to quality and mainstreaming [...]

In addition to an always valuable inter-disciplinary approach in problem solving in agricultural production, a trans-disciplinary collaboration between farmers on the one hand and scholars and scientists on the other is beneficial for both parties as they reach across the voids between their very different realms and idioms. We have [...]

IDH reportage about a KTDA Farmer Field School in Kenya.

Egypt-Finland Agricultural Research Project (EFARP) EFARP was launched in 1989 as a pilot project to provide a model how the efficiency of small-scale farming in the newly reclaimed areas can be improved with the help of efficient utilisation of agricultural research results. Ismailia Governorate on both sides of Suez Canal was [...]

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 [...]