Review of Farmers Field School Approach for Facilitation of Climate Smart Agriculture

Abstract

Providing farmers with access to technology and management approaches is crucial for sustainable agricultural development initiatives. For this purpose, policymakers make use of consulting and agricultural extension services. Historically, lawmakers have utilized the extension as a "top-down" institution to spread agricultural information to the general people. Some argue that conventional extension approaches are ineffective because they are "one size fits all," don't take into consideration the many different institutional and socioeconomic settings in which farmers work, and don't include them in developing practices and technologies that work in their specific settings. Furthermore, it was believed that in order to convey complicated information, more rigorous methods were necessary. One important part of the more inclusive approach to extension service delivery that has been in place since the 1980s is farmer field schools. In order to promote climate-smart agriculture, this article looked at farmer field schools. Also discussed in the article was FFS's role in public outreach and the promotion of climate-smart agriculture. Also included is a review of farmer field schools' experiences globally, with an emphasis on the approaches' consequences. Pros and cons of farmer field school approaches were also discussed in the article.