Farmer field school (FFS) approach to introduce rice farming and new rice production technologies to ex-combatant women in the Republic of Burundi
Ex-combatant women were organized into groups and each group is provided land to grow rice on. The project supplied the necessary start-up finance for renting land, seed, and fertilizer while the women provided the labor. Using the farmer field school (FFS) approach, the women groups were provided a...
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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/36034 |
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| author | Gonsalves, Julian Francis |
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| description | Ex-combatant women were organized into groups and each group is provided land to grow rice on. The project supplied the necessary start-up finance for renting land, seed, and fertilizer while the women provided the labor. Using the farmer field school (FFS) approach, the women groups were provided advice and assistance from land preparation through to harvesting. Participatory variety selection (PVS) trials and other on farm trials in each group’s fields for collaborative research purposes were also conducted. |
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| publishDate | 2013 |
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| spelling | CGSpace360342024-01-17T12:58:34Z Farmer field school (FFS) approach to introduce rice farming and new rice production technologies to ex-combatant women in the Republic of Burundi Gonsalves, Julian Francis farmer field schools farmer participation agriculture rice women plant breeding Ex-combatant women were organized into groups and each group is provided land to grow rice on. The project supplied the necessary start-up finance for renting land, seed, and fertilizer while the women provided the labor. Using the farmer field school (FFS) approach, the women groups were provided advice and assistance from land preparation through to harvesting. Participatory variety selection (PVS) trials and other on farm trials in each group’s fields for collaborative research purposes were also conducted. 2013 2014-06-11T15:38:54Z 2014-06-11T15:38:54Z Case Study https://hdl.handle.net/10568/36034 en Open Access CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security |
| spellingShingle | farmer field schools farmer participation agriculture rice women plant breeding Gonsalves, Julian Francis Farmer field school (FFS) approach to introduce rice farming and new rice production technologies to ex-combatant women in the Republic of Burundi |
| title | Farmer field school (FFS) approach to introduce rice farming and new rice production technologies to ex-combatant women in the Republic of Burundi |
| title_full | Farmer field school (FFS) approach to introduce rice farming and new rice production technologies to ex-combatant women in the Republic of Burundi |
| title_fullStr | Farmer field school (FFS) approach to introduce rice farming and new rice production technologies to ex-combatant women in the Republic of Burundi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Farmer field school (FFS) approach to introduce rice farming and new rice production technologies to ex-combatant women in the Republic of Burundi |
| title_short | Farmer field school (FFS) approach to introduce rice farming and new rice production technologies to ex-combatant women in the Republic of Burundi |
| title_sort | farmer field school ffs approach to introduce rice farming and new rice production technologies to ex combatant women in the republic of burundi |
| topic | farmer field schools farmer participation agriculture rice women plant breeding |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/36034 |
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