Sentences with phrase «farmer field schools»

35 farmer field schools established with so far, 450 registered members representing 32 of the communities.

Simon attended a Rainforest Alliance farmer field school, where he learned best management practices for sustainable tea farming.

The company plans to provide training to more than 1,300 Indonesian smallholder cocoa farmers by 2015 by engaging farmer field schools.

FAO and IRRI will together assist rice producing countries to adopt improved and adapted rice varieties, enhance availability of certified seeds and also the transfer of knowledge - including on pest management - through participatory approaches such as farmer fields schools.

SUCAFINA and the Kahawatu Foundation, a Swiss Non-Profit, improve yields per hectare by running model farms, teaching good agricultural practices at farmer field schools, and cooperating with other NGOs and clients to put more income at growers» disposal.

The program is based on a successful series of WCF field schools for African cacao farmers, themselves modeled on similar United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization farmer field schools.

35 Community managed Loan Schemes have been established to allow communities to buy equipment / seeds etc. to support implementing farmer field school training on their land.

At the Rainforest Alliance farmer field school, we learned to decrease our plucking intervals, and consequently my yield has increased substantially.

A: At the Rainforest Alliance farmer field school, we learned to decrease our plucking intervals, and consequently my yield has increased substantially — from 5,000 kg to 10,334 kgs!

The women learned to grow rice and test new rice varieties and farming technologies through a farmer field school.

To achieve a higher relevance, more outreach and a greater impact compared to simple trainings participants of the OAAEA will be asked to apply of what is taught by providing training to farmers and peers using the «farmer field school» and the «train the trainers» methodologies.

Also successful rural extension and training methodologies (e.g. the farmer to farmer approach, farmer field schools, participatory technology development) need to be adapted to the urban conditions.

In a neighbouring community, further trees are being grown for planting by a women's group and farmer field school.

Dissemination and extension strategies being considered include: demonstrations, orientation meetings, field days, farmer field schools, and community rallies.