The available body of evidence was unbalanced across the capital domains, providing high coverage of the natural domain but low coverage of the human, social and financial domains. Financial capital was enhanced through increased income and profits, savings and loans schemes, with a potential to reduce poverty. Natural capital was enhanced through improvements in field practices, food production, agricultural diversification, and food security. Effects on social capital included mutual trust, bonding, collective action, networking, and emancipation. Human capital was built in the form of critical thinking, innovation, confidence, and quality of life. The FFS demonstrated its potential to enhance human, social, natural and financial capital of rural communities. Impacts on non-participants of the FFS were addressed as peripheral effects. An analytical framework was developed with effects (outputs, outcomes and impacts) arranged according to the human, social, natural and financial domains. Out of 218 screened studies, 65 were selected to review the impact of the FFS. The Farmer Field School (FFS) is a widely used method seeking to educate farmers to adapt agricultural decisions to diverse and variable field conditions.

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Impacts of farmer field schools in the human, social, natural and financial domain : a qualitative reviewīerg, Henk van den Phillips, Suzanne Dicke, Marcel Fredrix, Marjonįood Security 12 (2020).

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