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This study examines the impact of Integrated Pest Management-Farmer Field School (IPM-FFS) programs on groundnut productivity in Ghana. The program is conducted in the groundnut growing regions of Ghana with the goal to improve groundnut agriculture through the dissemination of information and technology to the producers. We use household data [...]

Ce guide est destiné aux facilitateurs qui animent les formations participatives en gestion intégrée de la production et des déprédateurs à travers les Champs écoles des producteurs ou Champs écoles paysans (CEP) en Afrique de l’Ouest francophone. Il est une synthèse et une capitalisation des expériences de terrain des facilitateurs [...]

Ce document fait partie d’une série de guides élaborés dans le cadre du programme sous-régional en Gestion intégrée de la production et des déprédateurs (GIPD) en Afrique de l’Ouest, coordonné par l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO). Le programme utilise l’approche par Champ école des producteurs ou [...]

The aims of this research was to understand how education in the rural African faming setting can contribute to development and well-being in a way that is empowering for the poor. The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach provided an empirical frame for the research. By reflecting on experiences of FFS [...]

The FAO Dimitra community listeners’ clubs are groups of women, men and young people – mixed or not – who decide to organize themselves so as to work together to bring about changes in their communities. They meet regularly to discuss the challenges they face in their daily lives, make [...]

Global FFS review 2012

The study focused on factors associated with performance of Farmer Field School (FFS) as extension approach to cocoa production in Osun State, Nigeria.

Civil servants, agricultural researchers, extension people and media experts often think that videos for farmers need to be filmed locally, so that the audience identifies with the actors. But this is not so. Farmers in southwestern and northern Nigeria reacted to videos on rice seed health (made in Bangladesh), on [...]

This paper reports on how the farmer field school (FFS) approach has been used to successfully catalyse important changes among stakeholders in the savannah zones of West Africa. Improved agronomic practices, better decision-making skills and diversification of smallholder farms in developing countries are shown to provide farmers the opportunity to [...]