Starting in the 1990’s, the International Potato Center (CIP)’s integrated pest management team for potato late blight (IPM-LB) realized the importance of addressing the management of late blight, a complex potato disease, by combining crop protection and management sciences, with...
15 May 2018 - 15 May 2018
Livestock Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) are “schools without walls” where groups of small-scale livestock producers test and adapt good agricultural and marketing practices that help them to sustainably improve their, and their families’, livelihoods. Over the past two decades, Livestock...
09 April 2018 - 27 April 2018
FAO is organizing two sub-regional training workshops on Farmer Field Schools (FFS) for Integrated Pest Management (IPM) of Fall Army Worm (FAW).
One workshop will be held in Yaoundé, Cameroun from the 9th to 15th of April and involve...
04 April 2018
The mechanical control intervention against the Fall Armyworm - The case of Embu county pilot project
An update on the FAW response programme
The situation
The FAO SFE Global Fall Army Worm (FAW) (Spodoptera frugiperda) Emergency...
04 April 2018 - 05 April 2018
Two presentations of the case studies on FFS and social dimensions done by Lucie Chocholata in Senegal and in Uganda will take place early april in Czech Republic.
How Farmer field schools influence social dynamics, gender equality, community...