Transcript Farmer Field Schools

ADDA in Vietnam
ADDA Vietnam Projects
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The IPM Project (1998 - 2005).
The Organic project (2004-2012)
The Community Dev Project (2006 – 2014)
The Legal Aid project (2008-2014)
More Trees (subcont. by DFE 2010 - 2013)
Community Based Farmer Groups,
Tanzania (2009 – 2015)
Approach
1. Establish a team of facilitators,
incl. training (ToT)
2. Conduct season long training
(FFS)
3. Establish Interest Groups
among the FFS graduate (only
interested people participate)
Approach
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The preferred approach is to
create a team of locally based
and known facilitators who
speaks the local language and
Kinh
Approach
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Then provide technical training
to farmers through participatory
training methodologies (Farmer
Field Schools)
Approach
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The Farmer Field School
training provides the farmers
with technical knowledge which
usually enable the farmers to
increase their income
significantly
Approach
• and it also clearly display the
advantages of collaboration to
the participants.
• Therefore the farmers like to
form the “Farmer Interest Groups”
Basic Principles of FFS
• The farmers are participating in weekly
meetings during a full cropping season.
• They learn important ecological
principles by managing learning plots
and experiments themselves.
• 30 farmers form an FFS that is facilitated
by two trainers. The discussion between
farmers is the pulling force in FFS
Basic Principles of FFS
• The FFS approach uses discovery based
learning methods to improve the farmers'
agro-ecological knowledge.
• Each FFS has one IPM plot managed by
the participants, one experimental plot and
one plot cultivated in the way normally used
by farmers.
• The farmers will observe the biology
through AESA, and make drawings of their
findings. No books are used
Agro-eco-system-analysis
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Agro-eco-system-analysis
Thai FFS (Dien Bien)
H’mong FFS (Lai Chau)
The Community
Development Project
• Target group: Ethnic minorities
• Implemented in 6 provinces
(Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Son La, Hoa Binh, Nghe An and Ha Tinh)
• Local team of facilitators (72+36)
• Farmer Field Schools (Maize, vegetables,
and Climate Change) (500 +300 +300)
• Community development groups (300+250)
FFS field
Impact on Maize Farms
Yield /ha (kg)
Output
(1.000 VND)
Input
( 1.000 VND)
Profit
(1.000 VND)
% Net
profit
incr.
Before
After
Before
After
Before
After
Before
After
Son La
6.140
7.468
19.083
24.675
2.904
5.414
15.179
19.260
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Lai Chau
4.128
5.317
15.675
22.350
2.820
4.321
12.854
18.029
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Hoa Binh
3.923
5.469
12.863
20.615
2.737
6.229
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14.385
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Dien Bien
4.363
5.590
15.644
22.055
2.766
4.777
12.878
17.278
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Nghe An
3.199
5.734
10.759
24.144
3.894
6.846
6.865
17.298
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Ha Tinh
1.651
3.144
6.295
16.034
3.485
7.170
2.809
8.864
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300 HH
3.901
5.454
13.387
21.646
3.268
5.793
10.118
15.852
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Maize FFS
• Farmers who have participated in a
maize FFS have improved the
income from maize cultivation with 40
% on average.
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Maize FFS
• 40% increase of net income for
15,000 trained farmers,
• 1,245 kg extra / 0,6 ha maize field).
• Net profit is 3,145,000 VND / farmer.
• In one year this is 2,625,000 USD
• Total costs of project is 2,168,000
USD over the 4 years.
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Maize FFS
• Farmers who have participated in a
FFS have improved their
collaborative skills
• The FFS are very useful as a tool for
sustainable group formation
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Group establishment
Group dynamic
Creating
the “group
feeling”
through
FFS 3-4
months
Consolidating
the group
App. 6 months
Success or
failure
Time
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Income generating activities
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Production planning
Contract negotiation
Production cost reduction
Common production
Service deliveries
Organise credit
Procurements
Marketing
Take over parts of the value chain
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Chicken group in Lai Chau
Tooth pick group, Hoa Binh
Community Development
• The final step of project
approach is when the groups are
taking the lead for community
development activities
• Only possible in close
cooperation with the FU and the
local authorities
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Group activities
Number of
groups
Activities
90
Maize production, procurement and sales
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Pig fattening - raising pigs
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Chicken raisers -meet production and broilers
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Pig breeding groups – selling piglets
Producers of other crops (peanut, rice, sugarcane, cana
Producers of other livestock (Buffalo, cattle, fish, bees)
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16
Vegetable production
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Duck and other poultry production
Handicraft and processing (weaving, toothpicks,
cassava )
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Total
293
Group C.D. activities
Province
Dien Bien
No C.D. activities
Total
Budget
Local
funds
Project
funds
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Drinking water supply
75
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45
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Garbage collection and
treatment
72
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Water supply
100
59
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Irrigation trenches
252
157
95
Ha Tinh
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Road construction
146
66
80
Hoa Binh
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Drinking water supply
41
13
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Road construction
132
61
71
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Irrigation trenches
59
31
28
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Road construction
239
145
94
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Bridge construction
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24
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1155
599
556
Lai Chau
Nghe An
Son La
Total
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Community road
Conclusions on Groups
• The groups need to embark on
business opportunities and income
generating activities
• The groups can serve as vehicles for
organising other community
development activities provided that
external funding is available
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End of presentation
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