Sending Farmers Back to School: The Impact of Farmer Field Schools in Indonesia [PDF]
Review of Agricultural Economics, 2003 This paper evaluates the impact of Farmer Field Schools, an intensive participatory training program emphasizing integrated pest management. The evaluation focuses on whether participation in the program has improved yields and reduced pesticide use among graduates and their neighbors who may have gained knowledge from graduates through informal ...
Feder, Gershon +2 more
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Assessing the effects of Farmer Field Schools on farmers’ trajectories of change in practices [PDF]
Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2021 In West Africa, farmers face challenges to innovate and change their practices toward more sustainable cropping systems. Farmer Field Schools (FFS), an advisory service based on participatory principles, aim to support farmers’ innovation. This study investigates farmers’ innovation by characterizing their trajectories of change in agricultural ...
Bakker, Teatske +2 more
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Community mobilization: a key to effective control of banana Xanthomonas wilt [PDF]
, 2014 Banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) remains a major threat to banana, an important food and income crop for 12 million poor small-holder farmers in Uganda. Although, BXW has been controlled to some extent in parts of South-western Uganda, it is still a big ...
Jogo, W. +4 more
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Investigating Technology Transfer Gaps Through Farmers Field School
European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2022 Technology transfer is one of the core elements in a rapidly changing agricultural sector. However, the booming of agricultural innovation is not followed by the generation of methodological tools able to diffuse innovation in farmers and other stakeholders.
Evropi-Sofia DALAMPIRA +5 more
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Danish Stable Schools for Experiential Common Learning in Groups of Organic Dairy Farmers [PDF]
, 2007 The farmer field school (FFS) is a concept for farmers’ learning, knowledge exchange, and empowerment that has been developed and used in developing countries.
Bennedsgaard, T.W. +5 more
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Farmer field school : An approach beyond technology transfer
AGRICULTURE UPDATE, 2020 Farmer field school is an innovative extension approach, emerged in rice crop and gradually diversified to vegetables, cotton, livestock and other crops. FFS originated from Indonesia, is presently being conducted in many countries with local adaptations and institutionalization.
Amandeep Singh +2 more
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Farmer Field Schools in Rural Kenya: A Transformative Learning Experience [PDF]
Journal of Development Studies, 2011 As participatory agricultural education increases in use, knowledge is needed of its impact on the daily lives of the participants beyond benefits for farming. The purpose of this study was to explore the case of Farmer Field Schools (FFS) under the lens of transformative learning theory, in order to understand the impact that participatory and group ...
Duveskog, Deborah +2 more
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Participatory Common Learning in Groups of Dairy Farmers in Uganda (FFS approach) and Danish Stable Schools [PDF]
, 2007 Farmer Field Schools (FFS) is a well-known concept, which is widely used in many types of farming systems in the Global South. In this report different approaches to FFS adjusted to Ugandan smallholder dairy systems and to Danish organic dairy systems ...
Vaarst, Mette
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Farmer field schools and adoption of agricultural ecotechnology [PDF]
, 2008 Las Escuelas de Campo (EC) son un método de extensión participativo que permite desarrollar capacidades analíticas, pensamiento crítico y, creatividad.
Estrella Chulím, Néstor +6 more
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Duchy Originals Future Farming Programme – A practical, farmer led approach to innovation [PDF]
, 2014 We have adapted farmer field schools for the UK to boost innovation in organic and other low-input systems by encouraging farmers to share knowledge about experimentation and supporting farmer priorities for research.
MacMillan, Tom, Pearce, Bruce
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