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Many technological innovations have been developed to improve agricultural productivity in Sub Sahara. However, the adoption of these innovations has been low. Appropriate extension models are often seen as the missing link between adoption and the achievement of productivity gains. Although, Zimbabwe’s agriculture continues to be a vital cog in [...]

Farmer field school programs incorporating farmer participatory research (FPR-FFS) have the potential to provide important benefits to their participants and to other farmers who benefit from improved cultivars and management techniques. An FPR-FFS program in San Miguel, Cajamarca, Peru, has been in place since 1999 with an emphasis on management [...]

Farmer Field Schools (FFS) are an intensive training approach introduced in the last decade in many developing countries to promote knowledge and uptake of ecologically sensible production approaches, and in particular, integrated pest management which minimises pesticide use. Because of the high training cost, the viability of the program depends [...]

Manual con información validada en Perú y Bolivia sobre la marchitez bacteriana de la papa (MB). Esta guía intenta ser una herramienta flexible para ser usada como recurso para facilitadores de ECAs o de CIALs, o para profesionales de campo que requieran capacitar a agricultores o experimentar con ellos de [...]

This publication examines five cases of farmer field research in Indonesia.

The broad objective of the local chicken FFS is to improve income and household food security in the smallholders farming system.

This Farmer Field School Methodology: Training of Trainers Manual provides guidance for running training of trainers and bring agricultural extension staff, NGO staff and able farmers up to the point of being good farmer field school facilitators. It continues the tradition of teaching, as the facilitators will teach – focusing on [...]

REAL stands for Rural Ecology and Agricultural Livelihoods. REAL Education is an integrated learning process in which school children explore what is happening on local farms, gain an understanding of ecology, and develop critical thinking skills with respect to environmental, health and social problems. REAL Education is now an international movement, [...]

This manual encourages the agricultural sector, AIDS programmes and NGOs to assist farming communities in their efforts to build their resilience and reduce their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.