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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Autor principal: Gonsalves, Julian Francis
Formato: Case Study
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 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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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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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
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farmer participation
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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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