14:00 – 15:30 (CEST) AGD Meeting Room (B640) - The Seminar will be conducted in English Join us online Please connect 10 minutes before the webinar starts to ensure the audio works properly.   How to scale-up agroecology to 580,000 farmers in 3 years ?...

Annual Meeting Jamaica 2019 Effective and efficient agricultural extension and rural advisory services (RAS) are fundamental to support rural people to face existing and emerging challenges, and to improve their incomes and livelihoods, thus contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable...

Antananarivo – More and more maize farmers in Madagascar’s Vatomandry district are becoming equipped with the information they need to sustainably manage the Fall Armyworm (FAW) pest, thanks to FAO’s hands-on Farmer Field Schools (FFS).   As a response to the high...

197 extension workers and lead farmers graduate from farmer field school master trainers’ course June was a celebratory month at Mzuzu, Lisasadzi and Thuchila Residential Training Centres (RTCs) with 197 extension workers and lead farmers graduating from season-long Farmer Field School...

Over the past two decades, Livestock FFSs have been implemented/supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other development stakeholders in a wide range of environments and livestock production systems including pastoralism and agro-pastoralism; dairy,...