From LEISA * Magazine on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture
March 2003 Vol 19 No 1
http://www.ileia.org

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FARMER FIELD SCHOOLS have proven to be a very effective
tool for cultivating farmer learning and empowerment.
In particular, they encourage farmers to develop their
critical thinking, and this leads to greater
self-sufficiency.

- EDITORIAL: FFS, beyond the rice field
- Fundamental elements of a farmer field school
- PTD practitioners: back to school?
- Field schools for Kenyan dairy farmers
- Farmer life schools in Cambodia
- Community forest management and FFS
- Evaluation in FFS: burden or blessing?
- Picturing impact!
- The Egyptian experience with FFS
- The greening of Self Help Groups (report by
Seema Tripathi and Shiraz Wajih from Terai in
eastern Uttar Pradesh)
- Gender field schools
- Towards self-financed farmer field schools
- FFS for tree crops

USEFUL WEBSITES:
o http://www.communityipm.org/index.htm
Community IPM website
o http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/fpr-ipm/inicio.html
CGIAR task force on farmer participatory research for IPM
o http://www.ecoport.org
Resources and databases on ecology, including pests
o http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/farmspi/default.stm
Soil productivity improvement through farmer field schools
o http://www.cabi-publishing.org/IPM/links.htm
IPM forum
o http://www.comminit.com
The Communications Initiative
o http://magnet.undp.org/cdrb/
Capacity Development Resource Book
o http://www.wisard.org/wisard/clients/ippm/index.htm
Global IPM facility IPPM expert database
o http://www.eseap.cipotato.org/Training-resources.htm
CM-Training Resource homepage
o http://nrm.massey.ac.nz/changelinks/
Links for development change in Natural Resource Management
o http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/aglw/farme...ng/default.htm
Participatory training and extension in farmer water training...
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