“Emergency vaccination and targeted feeding of livestock grazing in areas

along the Syria-Lebanon border” 

OSRO/LEB/304/UK

Poultry Farmers Field Schools

FSSWG meeting3-2-2015

FFS Concept• Developed by FAO for small-scale rice

farmers to learn about IPM practices.• Farmer Field Schools (FFS) is:• innovative• participatory and • interactive learning approach (learning by

doing) • Season long field based training

• Used for crops, livestock & more…I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.Confucius

Training of Facilitators• Selection of Trainees (at least 50%

women)

• Training for 2 weeks• Learning by doing• Interactive• Participatory• Simulates the field work

Implementation• Selection of FFS site and beneficiaries

(selection criteria)

• Season’s long training

• Regular meetings• AESA (Comparative Experiments)• Group Dynamic• Special Topic• Conclusion & Recommendations

Project activities• Running 20 Poultry Farmers’ Field School (PFFS)• 25 beneficiaries per PFFS• 500 PFFS beneficiaries trained over six month• Each PFFS beneficiary receives:

• 50 Hens at laying age• material to construct a biosafe chicken house• 2 months Feed supply (325 Kg) and• choses 2 Helpers (indirect beneficiaries)

• Each indirect beneficiary receives 15 hen at laying age and 2 month supply of feed (100 Kg)• In total the 1500 beneficiary receive 40,000 hens, 262.5 tons of Feed and

materials to build 500 biosafe Chicken House

Thank you

For more information: At the Livestock sub-technical group