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🌱 2025 Innovation award on Farmer Field School for sustainable agrifood systems
📅 Thursday, 16 October 2025
🕓 16:00 – 17:30
📍 Red Room (A121int)

Innovation is essential to tackling the pressing challenges facing global food and agriculture. For more than three...

Innovating with Farmer Field Schools to Accelerate Transitions Toward Sustainable, Resilient and Fair Agrifood Systems

Innovation in agriculture does not only emerge from research laboratories or policy think tanks, it grows in farmers’ fields, through collaboration, experimentation, and shared learning....

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a new webinar series designed to integrate Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (SAM) into Farmer Field Schools (FFS), targeting small-scale producers worldwide. 

This initiative comes at a time when...

The webinar will explore how e-voucher systems are improving input
access, financial inclusion, and the overall effectiveness of FFS in
Mozambique.

Farmer field schools (FFS) have the unique potential of bringing together groups of farmers, livestock herders or fisherfolks to learn together on how to shift towards more sustainable production practices. A precious tool in sustainable agricultural development projects, FFS are...