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Sustainable agriculture: A pathway out of poverty for East Africa’s rural poor Figure 22 Four types of scaling up 118 political Changing the “rules of the game” to make sustainable agriculture more likely to spread Local National and international All levels Quantitative More farmers adopt sustainable agriculture techniques Capacity building Awareness creation and mobilization Networking and collaboration Extension scaling up organizational Increasing the organization’s capacity and making it more efficient Organizational governance and management Human resource development Communication functional Adding new techniques or adapting them to new situations Adding activities Adapting activities
5 Scaling up sustainable agriculture approaches, specific techniques (such as composting and water conservation methods), and supporting skills (such as simple book-keeping and group management). • Farmer field schools Groups of farmers get together to learn about their crops, the ecosystem in their fields, and the constraints and opportunities facing them. Guided by a facilitator, they choose subjects to study, do experiments in their own fields, and analyse the results. • Field days and on-farm demonstrations The organization runs demonstrations on its own land, or arranges for cooperating farmers to do so. Other farmers gather to see how to implement the practice and how it performs in the field. Advanced farmers groups may be able to manage their own demonstration plots without any inputs from outside organizations. • Training of trainers The organization trains a group of facilitators, who then train others, who then train still more people. • Farmer-to-farmer extension The organization trains one farmer, who then passes on the information and skills to his or her neighbours and friends, facilitates farmerinstigated tests, and acts a conduit of information from outside. • Exchange visits Groups of farmers visit another village to learn about a new practice, ask questions, and share their own experiences. This is usually carried out with no facilitation by the development organization except arranging transport. • Community resource persons Community members nominate someone for the organization to train. This person then acts as a source of knowledge and skills for the community. With sufficient training (e.g., through a diploma course), the participants should be able to take on some of the responsibilities previously borne by the development organization. • Scholarships This involves enabling men and women from a particular area to attend courses on rural development and sustainable agriculture. They sign a commitment to go back to their community and act as resource persons for several years. Awareness creation and mobilization Awareness creation and mobilization means spreading sustainable agriculture ideas to a wider audience than can be reached by the organization alone. Sustainet partners have used the following approaches: • Mass media Newspapers, radio, TV and publications can be a vital way to get a message out to a wider audience. • Community mobilization. This can be done is a variety of ways: through religious institutions, participatory appraisals, role plays, poems, stories and songs, cultural days, etc. 119
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