Agroforestry farmer field school: Facilitator’s guide

The FAO Forestry Department partnered with ACDI/VOCA and the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), and other stakeholders to develop a training programme to apply the FFS approach to guide national and local efforts to integrate fruit and timber trees into agricultural production areas in Jamaica. This facilitator’s guide was developed to support agroforestry farmer field schools (AFFS) implementation in Jamaica. There are five main sections: Facilitation tools; AFFS management practices; AFFS innovations; agroforestry as business modules; and resource material and reference guides. The guide introduces the agroforestry farm planning methodology with a selection of diagnostic tools that combine the agroforestry diagnosis and design (D&D) methodology developed by the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry CIFOR-ICRAF, with the strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis and various cropping system methodologies.