Impact assessment of Farmer Field Schools

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Food & Agriculture Org., 15 ott 2024

This report offers a detailed assessment of the Farmer Field Schools (FFS) programme in Türkiye, highlighting its impact on improving agricultural practices and rural development. It examines how FFS has empowered small-scale farmers by enhancing their knowledge of animal husbandry, crop production, and sustainable farming techniques. The report emphasizes the programme's success in increasing productivity, improving decision-making processes, and promoting gender equality and cooperative awareness, particularly among women farmers. Additionally, it outlines the positive effects of FFS in fostering environmentally sustainable practices and boosting economic resilience in rural communities. By addressing key challenges farmers face and demonstrating the programme’s transformative potential, this report provides important insights into how agricultural education can enhance farm management and contribute to the long-term sustainability of food systems.


 

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40 years old Adana Province agricultural production animal husbandry apiculture areas Authors average knowledge level based on survey chemicals and occupational cooperative awareness crop production district drip irrigation elaboration based enhanced equality and cooperative Farmer Field Schools FFS programme FFS training Figure financial management Friedman test Gaziantep gender equality Gevaş idea Insufficient Izmir Province Kahramanmaraş knowledge levels pre-FFS level by gender levels by subject levels of participants Little Somewhat Moderate lot None low low Somewhat Moderate Manisa Province Mann-Whitney marketing Mean Median Std mean score Moderate A lot Moderate So high Moderate Very Adequate Never happened Little normal distribution occupational safety overall pre-FFS percent pistachio post-FFS knowledge levels post-FFS scores pre-FFS and post-FFS Pre-FFS score primary school graduate provinces Şanlıurfa school graduate participants scores of participants scores of primary Shapiro-Wilk Mean Median significant status structure in agricultural survey data sustainability Table Türkiye Wilcoxon W Test Wilcoxon’s signed-rank test

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TitoloImpact assessment of Farmer Field Schools
AutoreFAO
EditoreFood & Agriculture Org., 2024
ISBN9251390606, 9789251390603
  
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