The FAO Forestry Department partnered with ACDI/VOCA and the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), and other stakeholders to develop a training programme to apply the FFS approach to guide national and local efforts to integrate fruit and timber trees into agricultural production areas in Jamaica. This facilitator’s guide was developed to support agroforestry farmer field schools (AFFS) implementation in Jamaica. There are five main sections: Facilitation tools; AFFS management practices; AFFS innovations; agroforestry as business modules; and resource material and reference guides. The guide introduces the agroforestry farm planning methodology with a selection of diagnostic tools that combine the agroforestry diagnosis and design (D&D) methodology developed by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry CIFOR-ICRAF, with the strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis and various cropping system methodologies.
This document on Good Practices in Extension Research and Evaluation is developed as a hands on reference manual to help young researchers, research students, and field extension functionaries in choosing the right research methods for conducting quality research and evaluation...
The private sector’s presence in agricultural advisory services worldwide has been on the increase for over three decades. This trend has also been observed in the Mantaro Valley (Peru), in a context of dairy family farming. The objective of the...
The first phase in the development of the Common Framework on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation systems (CD for AIS) consisted of the review of the existing literature, building up a repository of relevant documentation on agricultural innovation in general and AIS and CD...
This paper develops a quantitative, graph-theoretic method for analysing systems of institutions. With an application to the agricultural innovation system of Azerbaijan, the method is illustrated in detail. An assessment of existing institutional linkages in the system suggests that efforts should...
This PowerPoint document was presented during the OECD-ASEAN Regional Conference on Agricultural Policies to Promote Food Security and Agro-Forestry Productivity (Seoul, South Korea, 12-13 October 2015). The presentation outline is the the following: 1) About SEARCA; 2) Analytical Framework on AIS; 3) Governance of Innovation Systems;...
