Resources & Knowledge Base

Bringing climate change adaptation into farmer field schools (English)

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developed this guidance note to assist FFS master trainers and facilitators bring about climate change adaptation in FFS. [Laos version]

Soil Health Paddy Rice_ A manual for farmer field school facilitators (English) The contents of the manual are intended for use by FFS facilitators and trainers in the implementation of a season-long FFS on paddy rice with a strengthened component on soil health. [Vietnamese version]

• Running farmer field schools in times of Covid-19_ A Resource Handbook (English) This handbook provides guidance and suggestions to farmer field schools (FFS) facilitators, Master Trainers, project coordinators and rural advisors to run FFS activities and other agricultural trainings in times of COVID-19. [Thai version]

• Health Effects of Pesticide Use: Methods for Conducting Community Studies with Farmers and Children. The latest version of a manual written by Helen Murphy who has developed these training and action research activities in collaboration with IPM trainers including those now working with The Field Alliance

• Participatory Ecology Training: Field Guide for IPM Training. A fully illustrated guide by Nanang Budiyanto covering 18 topics.

• A Manual to Facilitate Participatory Planning Activity Details of 10 planning exercises which can be used with farmer groups as part of an IPM training programme.

• TFA complied narrative cases. Collected case narratives on best practices in ecological and sustainable agriculture in Southeast Asia 2014-2015.

• The Empowerment of Farmer Life Schools.The report of a project in Cambodia in which IPM farmer trainers facilitated Human Ecosystem Analysis (HESA). Written by Nguon Sokuthea, Srer Khmer, 2002

• Farmer field research: An analysis of experiences from Indonesia. An examination of five case studies each involving research carried out by Indonesia farmers, plus guidelines for facilitating scientific method.

• Picturing Impact: Participatory Evaluation of Community IPM in Three West Java Villages. A study carried out by farmers who took photographs to examine the impact of IPM on poverty in their villages; facilitated and documented by FIELD Indonesia.

• The IPM Training Program under the Department of Non Formal Education. This report includes useful annexes describing the curriculum for both Training of Trainers and Farmer Field Schools. Written by Thai Education Foundation.