Number of documents: 568
Female Farmers in Dominica Attend Farmer Field Schools
Matériel audiovisuel
2019 - UNDP Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean -
In the Morne Prosper community, Dominica, women farmers benefited from knowledge shared during Farmer Field Schools instituted by the Ministry of Agriculture
Anglais
Production system: Culture
Facilitators’ Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Participatory Plant Breeding. Module: Diagnostic stage
Matériel de formation
2018 - Oxfam -
The breeding objectives and activities of a Farmer Field School (FFS) season are based on the ‘diagnostic stage’, in which farmers perform a collective diagnosis of their situation and the problems and challenges they encounter in growing their crops and varieties. The diagnostic stage is crucial to ensure that the [...]
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Anglais
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Évaluation finale du projet «Intégration de la résilience climatique dans la production agricole pour la sécurité alimentaire en milieu rural au Mali»
Informations sur des projets
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
Le changement climatique est une réalité au Mali, où la population et l’économie sont majoritairement dépendantes de l’agriculture, de l’élevage et de la pêche. Dans le cadre du changement climatique, le Mali sera confronté à une nette augmentation de la température moyenne de 2 o C en 2050 et 4 [...]
Français
Production system:
The real seed producers. Small-scale farmers save, use, share and enhance the seed diversity of the crops that feed Africa
Documents techniques de référence
2018 - AFSA, Grain -
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 [...]
Anglais
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Facilitators’ Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Participatory Plant Breeding. Module: Plot design for Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) research plots
Matériel de formation
2018 - Oxfam -
In this module we will prepare the Farmer Field School (FFS) site and the plots of land on which we will do the fieldwork and testing of lines for the next season. The way we design the plots and allocate each of the lines that we sow should minimize the [...]
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Anglais
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Manual for the Training of Trainers for Farmer Field Schools on Participatory Plant Breeding
Matériel de formation
2018 - Oxfam -
This manual provides instructions and background for the SD=HS Training of Trainers (ToT) courses. In these courses (which mostly take up around three weeks), trainers are prepared to facilitate a season of Farmer Field School activities on Participatory Plant Breeding. Topics include the organisation of a Farmer Field School, the [...]
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Anglais
Production system: Céréales, Fruits et noix
EMPRENDIMIENTOS DE AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR PARA LA PAZ Metodologías para la innovación social y tecnológica para el desarrollo rural
Étude de cas
2018 - FAO - Editor: Juan Izquierdo
The book systematizes experiences of hundreds of Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in Colombia, developed by FAO and other institutions, in multiple social projects to strengthen communities and family farming organizations. These efforts were aimed at promoting food security, self- consumption, livelihoods, social inclusion of ethnic groups, sustainable intensification [...]
Espagnol
Production system:
Improving pasture management in arid and semi-arid lands in the Horn of Africa through Pastoralist Field Schools - An implementation strategy to support pastoralist communities build resilience against drought
Documents techniques de référence
2018 - FAO -
Recurrent drought, degraded rangelands and reduced access to traditional grazing lands have left pastoral communities in the Horn of Africa’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) more vulnerable and facing severe livestock feed shortages. During dry spells, pastoral communities suffer from food and nutrition insecurity, as well as shrinking incomes occasioned [...]
Anglais
Production system: Élevage
SOUTIEN À L’ADAPTATION AUX CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES AU MALI
Informations sur des projets
2018 - FAO -
On s’attend à ce que les changements climatiques provoquent de plus en plus d’événements extrêmes (sécheresses et inondations) au Mali, rendant la production de cultures et l’élevage plus difficiles pour les agriculteurs et réduisant ainsi la sécurité alimentaire et les revenus des plus pauvres du pays.
Le projet visait à fournir [...]
Français
Production system: Autres
Seed production guide curriculum for Malawi – a farmer field school approach
Matériel de formation
2018 - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture - Vicki Morrone, Edward Mzumara, and Hannah Livuza
This curriculum focuses on how to grow beans and other legumes for seed, since it is difficult to find a large selection of varieties available to plant that are good for the soil and eating. This guide also provides information on how to grow seed that can be sold through [...]
Anglais
Production system: Légumineux