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Enabling farmer-led ecosystem restoration

Farmer field schools on forestry and agroforestry









FAO. 2023. Enabling farmer-led ecosystem restoration  Farmer field schools on forestry and agroforestry. Rome



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    This annotated reference list is the direct result of the identified need and key recommendations of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) stocktaking study of Farmer Field Schools (FFS).The stocktaking study was applied to forestry to update technical resources, identify discovery-learning activities and document and share lessons and FFS curricula on forestry and agroforestry. The study confirmed the potential of FFS to support capacity building and the empowerment of rural people in the use of forests and trees. It showed that FFS can support diversification of production and can improve livelihoods while contributing to the mitigation of climate change and the restoration of the ecosystem. The annotated reference list contains a compilation of training materials, guides and curricula that apply the FFS approach to achieve advanced capacity building in forestry and agroforestry.Additional training documents that have been included do not apply all FFS principles, but apply the key components of its human-centred, participatory learning approach. This compilation provides an overview of 31 selected training materials in English, French and Spanish. These materials were published by FAO, international government and non-governmental organizations and partners. Experiences across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean, and 14 different countries were included as examples. Topics comprise natural resource management, community forestry, woodlot development, agrobiodiversity, forest management, trees outside forests, forest gardens, nurseries, cocoa, integrated farm management and enterprise development.
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    Bringing climate change adaptation into farmer field schools
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    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. The guide provides key information on how the climate is changing, and how these changes are impacting the agricultural (crops and livestock), aquaculture and agroforestry systems of smallholder farmers. The note provides guidance to FFS practitioners so that they can better work with individual farmers and communities – using a “climate change lens” – in identifying, testing and adapting new practices that respond to changes and variability in local weather. The guide is not intended as a textbook on climate change but is prepared for easy understanding of basic concepts of climate change to support the interpretation of climate information in specific farming contexts and steps that FFS facilitators “must know” in starting FFS programmes that respond to climate change challenges.

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