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Scaling service delivery in a failed state: cocoa smallholders, Farmer Field Schools, persistent bureaucrats and institutional work in Côte d’Ivoire

open access: yesInternational Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2017
The increased use of sustainability standards in the international trade in cocoa challenges companies to find effective modes of service delivery to large numbers of small-scale farmers.
Sander Muilerman, Sietze Vellema
doaj   +2 more sources

Reducing pesticide risks to farming communities: cotton farmer field schools in Mali. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2014
Settle W   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Impact of Farmer Field Schools in Rwanda

open access: yesJOURNAL OF RURAL SOCIETY AND ECONOMICS, 2017
null Kagenza Jean Marie Vianney   +1 more
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Assessing the effects of Farmer Field Schools on farmers’ trajectories of change in practices [PDF]

open access: yesAgronomy 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
openaire   +3 more sources

Effect of Farmer Field School (FFS) on the Knowledge, Attitude, Practices and Profitability of Rice Farmers

open access: yesPhilippine Social Science Journal, 2021
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) Model explains the individual’s knowledge which affects attitude and consequently changes the actual practices.
Froline S. Red   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community mobilization: a key to effective control of banana Xanthomonas wilt [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Will teaching sustainability standards to oil palm smallholders in Indonesia pay off?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2020
This study presents an ex-ante cost-benefit analysis of introducing sustainability standards to smallholder oil palm farmers in the province of Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Ernah, Priyanka Parvathi, Hermann Waibel
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating Technology Transfer Gaps Through Farmers Field School

open access: yesEuropean 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Prospects of Farmer Field School Extension Approach in Enugu State

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Extension, 2011
The study examined the features of farmer field school in Enugu State. Constraints as well as factors for enhancing its performance were studied. Sixty farmer members of farmer field school representing four out of the six established farmer field ...
M U Dimelu, C. P Okoro
doaj   +4 more sources

Agricultural extension approach: evidence from an Integrated Soil Fertility Management Project in Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 2020
Agricultural extension is an approach to rural development and agricultural transformation in which training, demonstration and technology transfer are key to reducing rural poverty, ensuring food security, and sustainably managing natural resources ...
Gerba LETA, Steffen SCHULZ, Girum GETACHEW ALEMU
doaj   +1 more source

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