{"id":709,"date":"2026-10-08T10:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/?post_type=activities_&#038;p=709"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:36:07","slug":"the-farmer-field-schools-ffs","status":"publish","type":"activities_","link":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/activities_\/the-farmer-field-schools-ffs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Farmer Field Schools (FFS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an extension methodology that engages the communities to learn together while they identify con- straints and their possible remedies in their farming sys- tem. It yields to community empowerment through dis- covery learning and promotes innovativeness. Farmers address holistic development aspirations through a broad curriculim with special topics to address their day to day challenges and needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through farmer-led FFS local capacities are created to sustain the learning within the communities with or with- out external facilitators. Secondly level organisations (FFS Networks) are encouraged at higher levels (sub- counties and district) to build synergies and take ad- vantage of economies of scale for collective action in marketing, negotiations, savings mobilisation and a uni- fied voice for advocacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an extension methodology that engages the communities to learn together while they identify con- straints and their possible remedies in their farming sys- tem. It yields to community empowerment through dis- covery learning and promotes innovativeness. Farmers address holistic development aspirations through a broad curriculim with special topics to address their day to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":711,"template":"","categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","activities_","type-activities_","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agri-business-development"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activities_\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activities_"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/activities_"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a2n.org.ug\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}