Farmer Field Schools – A participatory extension approach

Step 3. Best practices on resilient extension

  • Farmer Field School (FFS) brings together concepts and methods from agro ecology,
         experiential education and community development.

  • FFS is based on two premises:

     Though farming is done on individual farms, the rural community plays an essential role in farmer's
        strategies for survival and development. Farmers like to get together to share information and other
        forms of mutual support with others whom they trust.
     Farmers have a tradition of developing and applying technologies and refining it through
        experiences.

  • FFS farmers co-evolve resilient measures to the impacts of climate change in their crops with the
         available local resources and share each other’s experiences in solving problems

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