Глобальная платформа фермерских полевых школ
Number of documents: 189

Impact assessment of Farmers Field Schools in Chhatarpur district

Impact assessment

2009 - Action for social advancement (ASA) - Ben Redmond
Much of rural India is suffering from what Prime minister Manmohan Singh has termed “technological fatigue in agriculture” (Kshirsagar A, 2008). In order to reverse this state of affairs, considerable investment and macro scale action is required. However, for sustainable and meaningful change, community level extension is vital. One response [...]
English
Production system: Crops

Aprender haciendo: reflexiones sobre la implementación de la metodología de capacitación escuela de campo de agricultores para promover la producción sustentable y el consumo de hortalizas sana

Case study

2009 - SEPIA - Rossana Pacheco, Willy Pradel, Marisol Ramos
El siguiente artículo tiene como fin compartir las reflexiones del equipo HortiSana del Centro Internacional de la Papa, respecto a los aprendizajes obtenidos a partir de la implementación de la metodología ECA, para promover la producción sustentable y el consumo de hortalizas sanas en el Valle del Mantaro, de modo [...]
Spanish
Production system: Vegetables and Melons

A docência em uma escola do campo: narrativas de seus professores

Case study

2009 - Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas. - Juliana Pereira de Araujo, Rosa Maria Moraes Anunciato de Oliveira
Portuguese
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Farm Forestry Field Schools Implementation Guide - Volume 1: Intensified Social Forestry Project (IFSP) in Semi-Arid Areas in Kenya

Training material

2008 - JICA, Kenya Forest Service, FAO - Takayuki Hagiwara, Shinji Ogawa, Patrick M. Kairuki, Jane N. Ndeti, James M. Kimondo
This guide is an attempt to provide an FFFS implementation guide for a wider audience including project designers and managers as well as field practitioners who intend to use the FFS platform for farm forestry extension. This volume also aims to provide not only a basic conceptual framework with [...]
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Effects of Training on acquisition of Pest Management Knowledge and Skills by Small Vegetable Farmers

Impact assessment

2008 - Crop Protection - Puyun Yang, Wenxin Liu, Xunan Shan, Ping Li, Jinyu Zhou, Jianping Lu, Yahong Li
Effects of farmer field school (FFS) and the conventional (classroom lectures) training on acquisition of pest management knowledge and skills by small vegetable farmers were studied in Yunnan province, China from 2003 to 2007. There were significant gains of knowledge about vegetable pests, natural enemies, insect and disease ecology and [...]
English
Production system: Vegetables and Melons

Community Farmer Field School Animal Health Facilitators: Hybridizing private animal healthcare and capacity building in remote pastoralist areas

Training material

2008 - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) - David J Watson
The report has four specific objectives. 1) To evaluate the inherent capacity of the Livestock Farmer Field Schools (LFFS) approach to contribute to the development goals of VSF-Belgium in Turkana, Kenya; 2) To evaluate current strengths and weaknesses of the community-based primary animal healthcare system in Turkana; 3) To evaluate [...]
English
Production system: Large Ruminants, Small Ruminants, Camel/ Camelids

Caderno da Escola de Campo

Training material

2008 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Cyprien Ndambi, Arturo Angulo, Carmen Lahoz
Portuguese
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Reducing Vector-Borne Disease by Empowering Farmers in Integrated Vector Management

Case study

2007 - Bull World Health Organ - Henk van den Berg, Alexander von Hildebrand, Vaithilingam Ragunathan and Pradeep K Dasd
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Comparing Farmer Field Schools, community workshops, and radio: teaching Bolivian farmers about bacterial wilt of potato

Impact assessment

2007 - Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education - Bentley, J.W.; Barea, O.; Priou, S.; Equise, H.; Thiele, G
Bacterial wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum) is a serious disease of potato. It can be managed with cultural practices, but only if farmers understand the technologies, and the reasons behind them. Face-to-face extension methods, like farmer field school (FFS), can teach these messages to smallholders, but other methods may also be useful. [...]
English
Production system: Root/Tuber crops

Role of Farmer Field Schools on sugarcane productivity in Malakand, Pakistan

Impact assessment

2007 - Department of Extension Education and Communication NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar - Pakistan - MUBASHIR HABIB, M. ZAFARULLAH KHAN, MAHMOOD IQBAL, KHALID NAWAB & SHAHID ALI
Farmer field schools (FFS) are always aimed to help farmers to discover and learn about field ecology and integrated crop management. A study for sugarcane crop was conducted in 4 FFS villages namely Zoormandai, Baghicha, Sarogai and Haji Gulzada Kalay of Malakand Agency during 2004-05. From each FFS, 10 farmers [...]
English
Production system: Sugar crops