While it features real solutions, final content will undergo review by a technical working group and incorporate feedback from a validation workshop planned for December 2020. Please see these as examples only, and not a definitive list.
Solution /Innovation:

Livestock Farmers Field School (L-FFS)

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Organization:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

For more information:

Technical contact:
Giacomo De Besi
Livestock Development Specialist
FAO
Giacomo.DeBesi@fao.org
Additional contacts:
Clarisse Ingabire
Animal Production Officer
FAO
Clarisse.Ingabire@fao.org
More info, related website links:

http://www.fao.org/3/I8655EN/i8655en.pdf

http://www.fao.org/farmer-field-schools/ffs-overview/livestock/en/
Related PDF documents:
i8655en.pdf
Categories:
Camel, Dairy, Frameworks and tools, Other breed, Pig, Poultry, and Red meat
Has been implemented in:
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Challenge

Efficient and sustainable livestock production relies on good agricultural practices, including appropriate feeding, breeding, and health care as well as a value chain approach and market-oriented production. However, small-scale livestock producers, particularly women, often have little bargaining power in input and output markets, lack scientific knowledge, and have limited access to opportunities and services. The involvement of youth in farming is also decreasing.

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Solution

The FFS approach overcomes constraints associated with past top-down extension activities by enabling adult participatory hands-on learning and encouraging local innovation, particularly by women and youth. In Livestock FFS, groups of producers meet regularly throughout the production cycle to test, validate and adapt good animal production and marketing practices fitted to their local agroecosystems and socio-economic realities.
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Impact

Livestock FFS have proven to improve the livelihoods and resilience of small-scale livestock producers (including pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, and small-scale mixed farmers) in many different contexts and environments. The approach allows producers to make conscious decisions and critical analysis regarding management practices in livestock production, including planning, marketing, consumption and savings. Producers acquire new skills and knowledge in livestock management and feeding, disease prevention and entrepreneurship, among others, and establish linkages with service and input providers, researchers, extension agents and private operators to improve their enterprises, increase access to markets and generate incomes, while promoting gender equity. FFS often result in the formation or strengthening of associations and cooperatives.

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Camel, Dairy, Frameworks and tools, Other breed, Pig, Poultry, and Red meat

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