Farmer Field School (FFS) is a participatory education approach that brings together a group of small-scale food producers to solve production problems through sustainable agriculture. The FFS approach offers space for hands-on group learning, enhancing skills for observation and critical analysis and improved decision making by local communities.
The e-learning series consists of the following courses:
Course
Introduction to the Farmer Field School Approach
This course provides an overview of the FFS approach, starting from its fundamental principles and its brief history to its key elements.
Course
Implementation of Farmer Field School Programmes
Building on the foundation course “Introduction to the FFS approach”, this second course provides an overview of the process to design, implement, scale up, evaluate and manage FFS programmes.
Course
Formulation of Farmer Field School programmes
This course is currently under development. It will provide guidance on the formulation of FFS programmes, from the idenification of objectives and scope to data collection, activity planning, budgeting and the finalization of the project documents.
Each course concludes with a final test. A digital badge certificate is issued upon successful completion of the test.
Depending on the interest of learners, the self-paced courses in this series can be completed as a whole (which is preferable), or as individual courses (or lessons), taken independently.
Throughout the course series, references are made to specific courses or lessons where certain subjects are covered more extensively. Each course takes the learner step-by-step through the learning content using interactive screens and is complemented by exercises and links to additional material and websites for further reading.