Farmers’ Field School on Food Sovereignty to Support Food Self-Sufficiency and Seed Self-Reliance in Villages

In Indonesia, IAARD and the Directorate General of Food Crops are implementing a program on Farmers’ Field school on food sovereignty in the framework of supporting food and seed self-sufficiency in villages is intended as an effort to increase participants' knowledge regarding the superiority and characters of rice varieties, in addition to techniques for producing, selecting, processing and handling seeds to produce quality seeds. Seed technology transfer to farmers / prospective producers / community-based seed sectors will improve the quality of seeds produced by such groups, improve their knowledge on rice germination processes and procedures, in addition to improving the availability of rice seeds at the development site. IAARD and the Directorate General of Food Crops have worked to develop models, strengthen the capacity of breeders, and to stabilize sustainable seed independence.