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Tiene como propósito fundamental servir de guía para conformar y llevar a la práctica Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores (ECA) en producción de semillas de calidad. En este sentido, espera orientar y apoyar la tarea de los facilitadores al presentar una serie de contenidos, actividades y materiales que han sido [...]

Diversity field school (DFS) is a community-based action designed to create a platform for learning and sharing of crop diversity related knowledge and information. DFS places an emphasis on agency, participation, and empowerment, and seeks to develop both the knowledge base and leadership potential of local farmers. It adopts the [...]

The Facilitators’ Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Participatory Plant Breeding in Maize, Pearl Millet, Sorghum and Groundnut aims to assist facilitators in conducting farmer field school (FFS) sessions on participatory plant breeding (PPB) in their respective communities. In this context, participatory plant breeding should be understood in a [...]

A FFS manual on farm forestry.

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 [...]

The goal of this program is to help Jamaican farmers improve the quantity, quality and consistency of horticulture crops. While this manual focuses on Scotch Bonnet Peppers and onions, the principles of farmer field school can be applied to any crop.

Malian farmers have been cultivating millet and sorghum for millennia, but they are slow to adopt and develop modern varieties because it is difficult to observe the difference in yields in their fields, given the challenging local growing conditions. Farmer participatory approaches are therefore recommended. This paper applies an instrumental [...]