Farmer Field Schools – A participatory extension approach

  • 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