This handbook provides guidance and suggestions to farmer field schools (FFS) facilitators, Master Trainers, project coordinators and rural advisors to run FFS activities and other agricultural trainings in times of COVID-19. It includes basic protective measures, important considerations, proposed FFS activities, links to WHO resources and videos and more. It was written with FFS activities in mind, but will also be useful for Extension and Advisory Services and anyone running agricultural field trainings.
The handbook has two main purposes. First, it contains guidelines that focus on reducing risks of
COVID-19 community transmission when running FFS and other agricultural training activities,
based on WHO recommendations adapted to the context of FFS. Second, it aims to guide
practitioners in using FFS positively to disseminate basic protective measures and build effective
responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To this end, a set of 21 learning activities – jointly
designed by education and technical specialists – take the readers on journeys to integrate
COVID-19-related topics in their FFS and help communities respond to the challenges they face.
The handbook was written with FFS activities in mind but will also be very useful for extension
and advisory services and anyone running agricultural field training activities.
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