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    Dans cette note, la FAO présente les leçons tirées des expériences de 15 pays en développement, où les évolutions des marchés ont permis aux agriculteurs de passer à des pratiques durables. Cette note présente des recommandations sur les aspects concernant ces systèmes innovants susceptibles d’être améliorés et encouragés.
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    Investing in farmers – or agriculture human capital – is crucial to addressing challenges in our agri-food systems. A global study carried out by the FAO Investment Centre and the International Food Policy Research Institute, with support from the CGIAR Research Programme on Policies, Institutions and Markets and the FAO Research and Extension Unit, looks at agriculture human capital investments, from trends to promising initiatives. One of the nine featured case studies is the Twigire Muhinzi National Extension System in Rwanda. Twigire Muhinzi is the government’s homegrown, decentralized and farmer-oriented national system based on two complementary types of farmer-to-farmer extension approaches: farmer promoters and farmer field schools. The model showcases how an extension approach can improve farmer skills, knowledge and empowerment and thus lead to enhanced adoption of relevant technologies and practices. In Rwanda, mainstreaming the farmer field school approach into the national extension system along with financial support from public-private partnerships contributed to its scaling up. This publication is part of the Country Investment Highlights series under the FAO Investment Centre's Knowledge for Investment (K4I) programme.
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    Sustainable impacts at scale require the adoption of upgraded practices by large numbers of market actors and their continued usage of these practices in the long term. This behavioural change, in turn, is driven by actors’ capacities and incentives to adopt and sustain upgrades. A systems approach can help us understand the constraints that prevent market actors from changing their behaviour and thus improving their performance and the sustainability of the system in which they operate. Applying a systems approach to sustainable agro-input market systems development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this handbook provides an analytical framework to uncover what hinders farmers’ optimal adoption of agro inputs in crop production and a toolbox of innovative solutions to these constraints. The analytical framework presents a two-step analysis using a sequence of six yes/no questions followed by a root-cause analysis to identify why farmers do not adopt agro-inputs in an optimal way. Based on this, the toolbox provides six groups of solutions to address the problems that prevent farmers’ behavioural change (to adopt agro-inputs optimally). The analytical framework and solutions build on 70 empirical cases on improving agro-input market systems in SSA. All cases are either driven by or have a strong involvement of privatesector agro-input actors. Additionally, the cases demonstrate proven or potential positive impacts on the adoption of agro-inputs by farmers. These positive impacts are assessed in terms of the economic, social, and environmental sustainability, and the resilience over time of the solutions included in the cases.
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    Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet
    Comment les marchés encouragent-ils l'adoption de l'agriculture durable ?
    Le rôle des innovations institutionnelles dans les pays en développement
    2017
    Also available in:

    Dans cette note, la FAO présente les leçons tirées des expériences de 15 pays en développement, où les évolutions des marchés ont permis aux agriculteurs de passer à des pratiques durables. Cette note présente des recommandations sur les aspects concernant ces systèmes innovants susceptibles d’être améliorés et encouragés.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (series)
    Institutionalizing farmer field schools
    Twigire Muhinzi National Extension System in Rwanda
    2021
    Also available in:
    No results found.

    Investing in farmers – or agriculture human capital – is crucial to addressing challenges in our agri-food systems. A global study carried out by the FAO Investment Centre and the International Food Policy Research Institute, with support from the CGIAR Research Programme on Policies, Institutions and Markets and the FAO Research and Extension Unit, looks at agriculture human capital investments, from trends to promising initiatives. One of the nine featured case studies is the Twigire Muhinzi National Extension System in Rwanda. Twigire Muhinzi is the government’s homegrown, decentralized and farmer-oriented national system based on two complementary types of farmer-to-farmer extension approaches: farmer promoters and farmer field schools. The model showcases how an extension approach can improve farmer skills, knowledge and empowerment and thus lead to enhanced adoption of relevant technologies and practices. In Rwanda, mainstreaming the farmer field school approach into the national extension system along with financial support from public-private partnerships contributed to its scaling up. This publication is part of the Country Investment Highlights series under the FAO Investment Centre's Knowledge for Investment (K4I) programme.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (stand-alone)
    Developing sustainable agro-input market systems for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa: upgrading through innovation
    Practitioner handbooks
    2022
    Also available in:
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    Sustainable impacts at scale require the adoption of upgraded practices by large numbers of market actors and their continued usage of these practices in the long term. This behavioural change, in turn, is driven by actors’ capacities and incentives to adopt and sustain upgrades. A systems approach can help us understand the constraints that prevent market actors from changing their behaviour and thus improving their performance and the sustainability of the system in which they operate. Applying a systems approach to sustainable agro-input market systems development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this handbook provides an analytical framework to uncover what hinders farmers’ optimal adoption of agro inputs in crop production and a toolbox of innovative solutions to these constraints. The analytical framework presents a two-step analysis using a sequence of six yes/no questions followed by a root-cause analysis to identify why farmers do not adopt agro-inputs in an optimal way. Based on this, the toolbox provides six groups of solutions to address the problems that prevent farmers’ behavioural change (to adopt agro-inputs optimally). The analytical framework and solutions build on 70 empirical cases on improving agro-input market systems in SSA. All cases are either driven by or have a strong involvement of privatesector agro-input actors. Additionally, the cases demonstrate proven or potential positive impacts on the adoption of agro-inputs by farmers. These positive impacts are assessed in terms of the economic, social, and environmental sustainability, and the resilience over time of the solutions included in the cases.

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