Farmer Field schools: from IPM to platforms for learning and empowerment

Reflecting on global experiences of Farmer Field Schools

This publication features highlights of the International Learning Workshop on Farmer Field Schools (FFS): Emerging Issues and Challenges, held in Indonesia on 21- 25 October 2002. It synthesizes global experiences in FFS derived from 30 case and thematic papers, and outputs of the small-group and plenary discussions.

The key lessons, issues and challenges cover the following:

adaptation of FFS from rice IPM to other crops, systems and constraints;
application of FFS for research and development, training and extension, and other learning purposes;
FFS institutionalization, scaling up and policy development;
FFS monitoring and evaluation.

The book is the first in a series of Workshop outputs which also include a volume of papers and a CD-ROM documentation of the activity.

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Farmer Field schools: from IPM to platforms for learning and empowerment