Farmer-Led Approaches to Extension: Papers Presented at a Workshop in the Philippines, July, 1995

The report contains six papers presented at a workshop in the Philippines. The papers describe various aspects of extension systems in which farmers are the primary extension agents. One paper concerns the most established farmer-to-farmer movement, in Latin America, describing its evolution and expansion in Nicaragua and subsequent spread to other countries. Two papers are by people who have been extensionist/farmers in farmer-to-farmer systems. Another paper describes a farmer-based extension and participatory research system in the uplands of Indonesia, while a fifth describes the Nepal Agro-forestry FoundationÆs (NAF) approach to farmer-led extension. The last paper describes the principles upon which many farmer-farmer systems of extension are now based.