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Farmers Field Schools (FFS)
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Initiative for Soaring Food Prices (ISFP)
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Members of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association using a mechanical thresher for their harvested rice in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District.
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Members of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association harvesting rice in the field outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. The famers have no mechanized method of harvesting, and instead u
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Bundles of harvested rice in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone.
Bundles of harvested rice in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone.
Women using the traditional methods of threshing rice by simply grinding it with their feet or hands in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District.
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A member of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association caryying a harvest of rice on her head just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District.
To combat soaring food prices the government of Sierra Leone, supported by FAO, created the National Agriculture Response Programme, which provides training assistance to groups like this Cooperative, across the country.
Support to Operation Feed The Nation - GCP/SIL/024/GER: Acceleration in the implementation of the community-based food security activities of Operation Feed the Nation, to broaden its scope to enable trained groups of farmers to invest in assets which add value to their production, and to begin to address the learning and nutrition requirements of school children.
Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) in Sierra Leone - SPFP/SIL/2301:
-Preparatoy Phase for Community-based Extension and Capacity-Building Programme (CECP);
-Provide direct exposure to the principles and methodologies of Farmer Field School (FFS) to a selected group of people from Sierra Leone by facilitating their visiting of ongoing Farmer Field School programmes in other African countries and establish linkages with FAO specialists in FAO Regional Office for Africa;
-Training of the initial batch of staff and farmer facilitators;
-Testing the methodology in a first batch of Farmer Field Schools;
-Establishment of a functioning Special Programme for Food Security National Team.
11/13/2008
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© FAO/Peter DiCampo
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