Type: Tools and Guidelines
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Training Manual Agrobiodiversity and Farmers Rights
Foreword by Bharat Bhandari, Executive Director LI-BIRD Agricultural biodiversity, a subset of biological diversity, is the foundation of food and nutritional security. Smallholder farmers in developing countries are considered custodians of local agrobiodiversity who conserve, utilize, and maintain crop genetic diversity along with associated traditional knowledge and use cases. Changing climate coupled with other socio-economic […]
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Guía de Campo ECAs para Agricultores en Nutrición Plantas Alimenticias Locales: Temas especiales
Este módulo ha sido diseñado para ayudar a los facilitadores en llevar a cabo las actividades especiales de la Escuela de Campo para Agricultores (ECA).Los temas especiales son temas complementarios que ofrecen información adicional útil para el desarrollo de las actividades de la ECA. Por ejemplo, las ECA que trabajaron con latencia de semillas en […]
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Facilitators’ Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Local Food Plants for Nutrition: Special topics
This module has been designed to help facilitators to undertake Farmer Field School (FFS) special topics. Special topics are complementary topics that provide additional information which is useful for the development of the FFS activities. For example, FFS that addressed seed dormancy in Zimbabwe included a special topic on ways to manipulate seed germination provided […]
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Guía de campo para facilitadores de las ECAs sobre plantas alimenticias locales para la nutrición: Evaluación de fin de ciclo
Este módulo ha sido diseñado para ayudar a los facilitadores a llevar a cabo las evaluaciones de fin de ciclo de las Escuelas de Campo para Agricultores (ECA) a nivel individual para cada ECA. Durante la evaluación de fin de ciclo a nivel de la ECA, los facilitadores y los agricultores reflexionarán sobre las lecciones […]
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Facilitators’ Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Local Food Plants for Nutrition: FFS end-of-cycle evaluation
This module has been designed to help facilitators to undertake Farmer Field School (FFS) end-of-cycle evaluations at FFS level. During the end-of-cycle evaluation at FFS-level, facilitators and farmers will reflect on the lessons learned, developments, challenges and problems related to the content of the FFS work and functioning of the FFS group. They will assess […]
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Guía de Campo – Escuelas de Campo para Agricultores en Nutrición y Plantas Alimenticias Locales: Módulo manejo de plantas alimenticias locales
Este módulo ha sido diseñado para ayudar a los facilitadores de las escuelas de campo para agricultores (ECA) en nutrición y plantas alimenticias locales a llevar a cabo actividades que ayuden a los agricultores a mejorar el manejo de plantas alimenticias locales. Este documento presenta directrices para la siembra de plantas alimenticias locales, la cosecha […]
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Facilitators’ Field Guide for Farmers Field Schools on Local Food Plants for Nutrition: Managing local food plants module
This module has been designed to help facilitators of Farmer Field School (FFS) on nutrition and local food plants to implement activities that help farmers to improve the management of local food plants. This document presents guidelines for sowing local food plants, harvesting wild plants, seed storage and germination, and vegetative propagation. FFS facilitators and […]
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Guía de Campo para Facilitadores de Escuelas de Campo para Agricultores: Plantas alimenticias locales para la nutrición
Módulo: Fase de diagnóstico Esta guía es la primera de una serie que profundizará en los diferentes módulos que componen una Escuela de Campo sobre Plantas Alimenticias Locales para la Nutrición. Este documento está destinado a ayudar a los facilitadores a completar los ejercicios de diagnóstico que forman parte de una Escuela de Campo para […]
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Facilitators’ Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools: Local Food Plants for Nutrition
Module: Diagnostic phase This guide is a first of a series that will zoom in on the different modules that make up a Farmer Field School on Local Food Plants for Nutrition. This specific document is meant to help facilitators complete the diagnostic exercises which are part of a Farmer Field School (FFS). It summarizes […]
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Online course for Farmer Field Schools on Farmer Seed Production and Marketing
The online course “Farmer Field Schools on Farmer Seed Production and Marketing” is part of the program’s work on seed production for the local market. The objective of this work is(1) to improve farmers’ access to seed of well adapted crops and varieties not offered by the formal seed sector against an affordable price, and(2) […]
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Guía de campo para facilitadores de ECAs sobre fitomejoramiento participativo – Fase de Diagnóstico
Los objetivos y actividades de fitomejoramiento de una Escuela de Campo para Agricultores (ECA) se basan en la “fase de diagnóstico”, en la que los agricultores realizan un diagnóstico colectivo de su situación y de los problemas y desafíos que enfrentan en el cultivo de sus cultivos y variedades. La etapa de diagnóstico es crucial […]
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Facilitators’ Field Guide for FFS on Participatory Plant Breeding:
Diagnostic StageThis field guide was developed by the Sowing Diversity=Harvesting Security program and its consortium partners in 2018: Community Technology Development Trust (CTDT), Asociación ANDES, and the Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for community empowerment (SEARICE). It is based on Farmer Field School training experience in Zimbabwe, Peru, Myanmar, Lao P.D.R. and Vietnam. The diagnostic stage is […]
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Guía para los facilitadores de las escuelas de campo para agricultores en la enseñanza de fitomejoramiento participativo
Módulo: Diseño del Modelo para la Selección de Variedades utilizando Fitomejoramiento Participativo (PVS/SVF) – Modelo para la Investigación En el presente modulo, preparamos el lugar en el cual se ha de establecer La Escuela de Campo para Agricultores (ECA) y las áreas agrícolas que se utilizaran para el Modelo de las Parcelas Experimentales, en las […]
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Facilitators’ Field Guide for FFS on Participatory Plant Breeding:
Plot design for PVS research plotsThis module is part of the Facilitator’s field guide for Farmer Field Schools on Participatory Plant Breeding. It is meant to help prepare the Farmer Field School (FFS) site and the plots of land on which we will do the fieldwork and testing of lines for the next season. The way we design the plots […]
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Guía de Facilitación para las ECAs sobre Fitomejoramiento Participativo de Plantas
Módulo: Mejoramiento Participativo de VariedadesEl Mejoramiento Participativo de Variedades (MPV) funciona con variedades significativas de cultivos auto polinizados o de polinización cruzada. El objetivo es: i) restaurar características o aspectos que se han deteriorado con el tiempo, ii) mejorar las características preferidas o iii) adaptar las variedades para las condiciones agrícolas cambiantes. El atractivo del MPV es que no […]
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Field Guide Module for Community Seed Banks
This Field Guide module has been developed drawing from a wide range of sources and experiences, from within the SD=HS programme and from various other organizations, and has benefited in particular from the longstanding efforts of Bioversity International in this field. It is intended to be used in the context of farmer field schools. It […]
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Farmer Field School Field Guide on Nutrition and Local Food Plants
This document aims at providing a guideline for the development of farmer field school (FFS) curricula on Nutrition and Local Food Plants with a gender approach, which is part of the SD=HS program. The FFS on Nutrition and Local Food Plants aims at contributing to the SD=HS objective on improving the quality and diversity of […]
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Facilitator’s Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Participatory Plant Breeding
This field guide focuses on four major crops important in Zimbabwe: maize, pearl millet, sorghum and groundnut. This Facilitators’ Field Guide for Farmer Field Schools on Participatory Plant Breeding aims to assist facilitators in conducting Farmer Field School (FFS) sessions on participatory plant breeding (PPB) in their respective communities. In this context, participatory plant breeding […]