“I’ve been a farmer all my life. I had not received any training in agriculture and only used my local knowledge,” says Yohana Zablon (63), a smallholder farmer from Njage Village in Morogoro, Tanzania. “A few months ago, I was approached...

Agriculture is a critical field to Fijians. In the last several decades, food production has seen a steady decline which has been compounded by Fiji’s vulnerability to climate change, with frequent storms, floods and especially droughts, which can be devastating...

As the good rains came down, one would expect the arable farmers’ smiles to last a little bit longer but the high infestation of the Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) has since wiped the smiles from Botswana farmers. The invasion of...

Faced with the many challenges related to malnutrition and food insecurity, FAO explored how the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach could be used to improve nutrition security among smallholder farmers. The diverse experience developed globally to educate and sensitize producers on...

  11:00 – 12:00 AM (Rome Time – CET) Mexico Room (D211) Join us online   Please connect 10 minutes before the webinar starts to ensure the audio works properly.   Vikram Singh Rawat and Ashish Gupta are farmers and practitioners of innovative agricultural systems for rural...