Number of documents: 60
Sharing Ideas between Cultures with Videos
Other
2011 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability - Jeffery Bentley, Paul Van Mele
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 [...]
English
Production system: Cereals
Sustainable Crop Production Intensification in the Senegal and Niger River Basins of Francophone West Africa
Key documents on FFS
2011 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability - William Settle and Mohamed Hama Garba
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 [...]
English
Production system: Crops, Cereals, Vegetables and Melons
Is Pesticide Use Sustainable in Lowland Rice Intensification in West Africa?
Case study
2011 - Agricultural and Biological Sciences - F. E. Nwilene
English
Production system: Cereals
Farmer Knowledge as an Early Indicator of IPM Adoption: a Case Study from Cocoa Farmer Field Schools in Ghana
Case study
2011 - Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa - Soniia David and Christopher Asamoah
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops
Sustainable Land Management in Practice. Guideline and Best Practices for Sub-Saharan Africa. Field Application
Training material
2011 - TerrAfrica, World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Hanspeter Liniger, Rima Mekdaschi Studer, Christine Hauert, Mats Gurtner
Production of guidelines for best sustainable land management (SLM) technologies and approaches in SubSaharan Africa (SSA) has been part of TerrAfrica’s programme during 2009-2010. These guidelines and case studies are intended to help create a framework for investment related to SLM in SSA. The particular aim of these guidelines is [...]
English
Production system:
Experimental by Nature : Rice Farmers in Ghana
Information on projects
2010 - Human Organization - J.W. Bentley, P. Van Mele, G.K. Acheampong
A project in Ghana tried to encourage government extension agents to change their attitudes. Instead of merely teaching new techniques, they were supposed to engage rice farmers in a two-way learning experience. The extension agents accepted some of the project philosophy, but they still thought that the goal of the [...]
English
Production system: Crops
Farmer field school-IPM impacts on urban and peri-urban vegetable producers in Cotonou, Benin
Impact assessment
2010 - International Journal of Tropical Insect Science - T. Lund, M.-G. Sæthre, I. Nyborg, O. Coulibaly and M.H. Rahman
The use of synthetic pesticides among vegetable producers in urban and peri-urban Cotonou, Benin, has been increasing to the extent that certain insect pests have developed resistance to the pesticides. This paper assesses the impact of the farmer field school approach in an integrated pest management (IPM) project that aimed [...]
English
Production system:
Formation en Gestion d’Entreprises Associatives Rurales en Agroalimentaire. Version adaptée pour l'Afrique francophone. Manuel de renforcement des capacités - Guide du Facilitateur
Training material
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Florence Tartanac, Pilar Santacoloma, Alexandra Röttger
L’objectif de ce guide est de faciliter la planification et la mise en œuvre des
sessions de formation. Il fait partie du cours de Gestion d’entreprises associatives
rurales en agroalimentaire et a été conçu pour les facilitateurs qui possèdent
des connaissances et une expérience en ce qui concerne les aspects techniques de
la formation, [...]
French
Production system:
Réduction de la vulnérabilité de l'agriculture béninoise aux Changements Climatiques: expériences du PARBCC
Audiovisual material
2010 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) -
L'expérimentation paysanne permet de mettre à la disposition des agriculteurs des options pertinentes d'adaptation pouvant les aider à accroître la résilience de leurs systèmes de production.
French
Production system:
Farmer Field Schools in Bonsaaso, Ghana
Audiovisual material
2010 - Millenium Promise -
With the support of the Millennium Village Project, farmers in Bonsaaso, Ghana have formed collectives. This enables experienced farmers to pass their knowledge along to the younger member of their community, thereby improving crop yields and nutrition.
English
Production system: Beverages/Spice crops