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BookletIntroducing farm business schools in Lebanon: fostering farmer decision-making and resilience
A case study covering the first year of implementation
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No results found.The farm business school (FBS) experience in Lebanon garnered broad interest in the country and regionally, from grassroots farming communities to development organizations and public institutions. Based on the initial results, the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture embraced the FBS approach and integrated it into different programmes. Farmers elicited facilitators' support in establishing additional farm business schools. Local municipalities extended their patronage to the initiative. Local and international NGOs expressed interest in replicating the FBS as part of their interventions. Following the pilot experience, the FBS approach has been integrated into several FAO programmes in the country. The experience offers good learning for planning and integrating FBS in future programmes and projects. -
DocumentIntroducing fishery education into schools serving fishing communities 1979
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No results found.This technical paper is a first attempt to alert governments in the Indian Ocean Programme Region to the possibilities of introducing fisheries education into schools serving fishing communities. It contains detailed proposals for introducing fisheries related topics into the schools curricula to suit various grades and levels without requiring basic changes in the officially approved curricula. It also features a detailed proposal for an optional vocational fishing course to be offered at the h igh school level. The paper offers suggestions for using schools to provide continuing fisheries education for adults; refers to the organization and supervision of these programmes; touches upon the financial aspects and offers hints on obtaining outside expert assistance to get the programmes started, whenever such assistance is required. The appendixes contain further information, giving lists of equipment, reference material and teaching aids, as well as detailed contents of courses for the training of teachers for this programme. -
Book (stand-alone)Farm Business School manual: Training of facilitators programme for South Asia 2011
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No results found.Dramatic changes are taking place in farming worldwide as a result of globalisation, liberalisation, and rapid urbanisation. Farmers are intensifying existing patterns of production and diversifying their farm enterprises in an attempt to improve their livelihoods. Technical know-how is not enough. In order to be competitive and take advantage of the new opportunities that are arising, farmers increasingly have to adapt their farm business to market changes and improve efficiency, profitabili ty and income. Farmers skills and capacity can only be built through a process of learning and practice. The Farm Business School (FBS) was developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to help farmers learn how to make their farming enterprises and overall farm operations profitable and able to respond to market demands. The learning takes place at the village level and farmers' capacity in entrepreneurial and management skills is built via a "learning by doing" appro ach. Extension officers and lead farmers are trained as facilitators and then organise seasonal training courses, where farmers work in small groups at their own pace using materials that have been specially designed for the schools. The Training of Facilitators Programme consists of two parts: 1) a facilitators manual and 2) a handbook for the participants. This publication presents the manual.
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