The shift to agroecological farming started with a small step in Kalamunda in Odisha. With multiple agencies support, women farmers learnt the techniques of natural farming and...
Farmer Field School – Building knowledge on the farm
Farmer Field Schools serve as a platform for mutual learning among farmers and resource persons. Interactions, discussions and hands on training provides an opportunity to revive...
Building social capital by investing in rural youth
Youth provided with appropriate training and opportunities, have the capacity to engage in activities that bring both economic and social benefits. Building human resources is an...
Insects or Pests? Only practice decides
Insect behavior is largely decided by farming practices. Both plants and insects are mutually dependent. While plants provide food to insects, insects provide the necessary...
Seeds and FFSs
The agrobiodiverstiy@knowledged programme initiated by Oxfam Novib and Hivos, aims at generating and sharing evidence and insights for transformation in the area of agricultural...
Farmer Field Schools – Learning on the farm
Farmers in Takuche village in Nepal learnt eco-friendly ways of managing pests in apple orchards through Farmer Field School. The year long school also enriched them with the...
Talking soil science with farmers
Pablo Tittonell, Michael Misiko and Isaac Ekise When agricultural researchers visit farms in order to gather information for their research programmes, farmers rarely get proper...
Farmer Field School: Farmer centric agriculture extension approaches
Rakhi Saxena & Ajay Saxena Forming partnerships and groups to work together for agricultural development is very important. Participatory extension approaches such as...
Fundamentals of farmers field schools – a cotton IPM FFS as an example
What is Farmers Field School (FFS)? As the name suggests Farmer’s Field Schools (FFS) are the schools for the farmers beyond the boundaries of formal structures. It operates...