Farmer Field Schools for Improving Farming Practices and Farmer Outcomes: A Systematic Review
By H. Waddington, Birte Snilstveit, Jorge G. Hombrados, Martina Vojtkova, Daniel Phillips, P. Davies, H. White. 2014
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screening criteria: Developing country FFS Primary research Fulltext inclusion criteria: FFS Primary research Qualitative or descriptive studies Barriers/facilitators Methods reporting Title Screening criteria: Developing country FFS Primary research 1,112 abstracts screened 751 excluded 49 unavailable 314 full text screened 257 excluded 124 excl on methodology 128 excl on relevance 5 excl as duplicates 1453 abstracts screened 27,866 titles screened 369 full text screened 958 excluded 126 no access 235 excluded: 177 on relevance 58 on design 134 papers covering 92 studies of 71 distinct FFS projects Review question 2: Synthesis of barriers & facilitators Review question 1: Synthesis of effects 27 papers covering 20 qualitative studies of 20 distinct FFS projects
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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- The role of agri-environment schemes in conservation and environmental management (2015, background): “…has been repeatedly demonstrated that farmer field schools, common in low and middle income countries, enhance uptake of beneficial integrated pest management practices, although the schools do not seem to spread practices through the farming community beyond the attendees (Waddington et al. 2014).”
- How to do a good systematic review of effects in international development: a tool kit (2012, methodology): “For example, Waddington and Snilstveit (2009) drew on Rogers’ (2005)”