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ProjectStrengthening Capacity of Smallholder Farmers and Farmers’ Organizations in Angola through Farmer Field Schools - UTF/ANG/059/ANG 2024
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No results found.Agriculture is Angola’s second largest productive sector. On average, it contributes 9.7 percent to the country’s gross domestic product, making it the main economic activity of the Angolan people. At present, 80 percent of Angolan farmers are smallholders who produce around 80 percent of all agricultural products in the country. However, they face a number of constraints, comprising weak capacity and limited knowledge of improved agricultural practices and technology; poor access to extension services; limited access to modern inputs, including seeds and fertilizers; inadequate market information; and post-harvest losses. The agriculture sector’s institutional capacity is also weak, particularly in relation to irrigation, policy analysis and agricultural statistics. Against this background, the project aimed to support smallholder producers to improve their production conditions and organization for marketing in three provinces considered the breadbasket of Angola, Bié, Huambo and Malanje. The project built on a previous World Bank-supported project - the Market Oriented Smallholder Agriculture Project (MOSAP I) - implemented in the three above-mentioned provinces. -
ProjectDevelopment of Agricultural Diploma Education in Bangladesh - TCP/BGD/3604 2020
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No results found.Enhancing crop productivity is one key to securing food security in Bangladesh. The productivity of the crop sector in Bangladesh has increased significantly over time. The challenge, however, is to continue this momentum in the coming decades as the population grows and land is lost to other economic uses. The use of innovative demand-based technologies will help to meet this challenge. In the crop sector, new technologies are tested and delivered by front-line field extension staff of the Department of Agricultural Extension and private-sector organizations. To qualify for such positions, applicants require an agriculture diploma from the country’s Agricultural Training Institutes. In order to keep pace with changing agricultural knowledge and the demands of a modern agricultural extension service, the ATI diploma curriculum needed to be updated, along with teaching methods and institutional management. The project addressed these issues on a pilot basis, in partnership with DAE, for subsequent scaling-up by the Government of Bangladesh. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetGlobal Farmer Field School Platform 2018Farmer Field Schools (FFS) have been implemented in over 90 countries since they started in a FAO programme in Asia more than 25 years ago. The FFSs approach, using experiential group learning process that examines and integrates scientific and indigenous knowledge to a local context, enhances food security and sustainable agricultural development of vulnerable communities. Farmer Field Schools have proven to contribute to individual, household and community empowerment that improve livelihoods. Demand is growing for scale up FFS programmes from a wide range of stakeholders. In 2017, FAO began developing the Global FFS Platform to strengthen FS quality by connecting the extensive network of FFS practitioners worldwide. The Platform facilitates the exchange of knowledge, expertise and information on FFS. It documents, improves the visibility of achievements and promotes a stronger collaboration among committed stakeholders. This brochure is meant to describe the Platform, attract people interested in learning more about FFS and FFS practitioners and experts that can join the platform as members.
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