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Farmers Research and Extension Group (FREG)
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Farmers Research and Extension Group (FREG) [Ethiopia]

A Farmers Research and Extension Group (FREG) engages about 50 or more farmers in a kebele (lower administrative unit), with three sub groups of 17-20 each who live in a homogenous landscape. It is a local institution established for joint learning, piloting, and evaluating soil improvement technologies across the intervention …

  • Compiler: GERBA LETA
Participatory Rehabilitation of Dry Valleys
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Participatory Rehabilitation of Dry Valleys [Ethiopia]

Participatory rehabilitation and productive use of dry valleys is an approach employed to rehabilitate degraded and degradable land. It is operationalised through the Lowland Soil Rehabilitation Project with local development partners from kebele, district, regional agricultural bureaus, and other relevant stakeholders.

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Integrated Agroforestry System
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Integrated Agroforestry System [Ethiopia]

The integrated agroforestry system is a self-initiated approach by a land user to implement agroforestry as part of an indigenous practice and has evolved over the years through technical support, training, and supplies of coffee and tree seedlings by the Office of Agriculture and Coffee Improvement Project. Had there been …

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Soil Fertility Improvement Cluster
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Soil Fertility Improvement Cluster [Ethiopia]

The Soil Fertility Improvement Cluster approach engages five or more farmers living in a village who share skills and labour to prepare and use improved compost as well as to demonstrate it to non-member of the group.

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Pastoralist field schools
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Pastoralist field schools [Ethiopia]

Pastoralist field schools improve livelihoods and resilience of pastoral communities through a process of hands-on experimental and participatory learning. They are "schools without walls" that introduce good agricultural and marketing practices while building on local knowledge. The PFS approach builds heavily on the basic principles of discovery based learning to …

  • Compiler: Giacomo de' Besi
Social Infrastructure for Soil Conservation
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Social Infrastructure for Soil Conservation [Ethiopia]

Negotiation with the stakeholder community of a catchment on social incentives to be offered by external agency in exchange of additional inputs by the communty to be invested into soil and water conservation measures.

  • Compiler: Hans Hurni
Labour exchange
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Labour exchange [Ethiopia]

It is an approach based on labour exchange organized on the basis of mutual assistance involving no payment for work done. However, the land user is supposed to provide people participating with food and drinks. All wanting such cooperation request the me

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