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WP0190-16
TitleAgroforestry and Forestry in Sulawesi series: Evaluation of the Agroforestry Farmer Field Schools on agroforestry management in South and Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
AuthorEndri Martini, Ummu Saad, Yeni Angreiny, James M Roshetko, Hendra Gunawan, Heru T. Maulana, Gusti Suganda, Gusti Dwipayana, La Ode Muhammad Erwin and Abdul Hadedi
Year2016
PublisherWorld Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Southeast Asia Regional Program
City of PublicationBogor, Indonesia
Series NumberWorking paper 220
Number of Pages16
Call NumberWP0190-16
KeywordsAgroforestry Farmer Field School, evaluation, coffee, durian, cacao, pepper, clove
Abstract:
The Agroforestry Farmer Field School (AFFS) is a program implemented through the Agroforestry and Forestry: Linking Knowledge to Action (AgFor) project that seeks to improve the agroforestry garden management capacity of smallholder farmers in several provinces of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. In principle, the method implemented in AFFS follows the participatory concept of farmer field schools, with the AFFS design based on the local context of AgFor sites in South and Southeast Sulawesi provinces. The AFFS was implemented from April 2013 to March 2014, with a focus on five main commodities prioritized by farmer partners, that is, pepper, clove, coffee, cacao and durian. Experts and scientists from Indonesian national research institutes were engaged as resource persons in the AFFS. One year after the program initiation, an evaluation was conducted through interviews of randomly-selected AFFS participants from four districts in South and Southeast Sulawesi provinces. The evaluation was conducted from April to July 2014 with 263 respondents (12% of total AFFS participants). Results of the evaluation showed that 97% of the respondents gained benefit from attending AFFS. New and reliable knowledge or information was perceived as the most important aspect motivating farmers to attend AFFS. Results showed that one year after first implementation of AFFS, 14% of respondents had generated cash benefits from testing new knowledge learned during AFFS. The amount of money generated depended on the type of knowledge tested. Fertilizing and pruning were important techniques that yielded cash benefits for farmers in the short term (within one year). The evaluation concluded that after AFFS activities end, a minimum of one year of facilitation would be required to assist participants to effectively test and adapt the new knowledge learned
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