HEPA (Human Ecology Practical Area) Farmer Field School (FFS) is a pioneering training dedicated to strengthen indigenous youth. HEPA FFS lies at the heart of the 6 inter-thematic networks action of Mekong Community Network Action for Ecological Trading (MECO-ECOTRA).
Overuse of resources and the lack of a caring attitude towards Human-Nature relationships in many sensitive watershed ecosystems have been the major causes leading to land desertification problems, gradual erosion of social traditions, and the losses of ecological biodiversity.
The learning at Long Lan by the group of students has been successful
05/03/2014
After 1-2 years of study in FFS-HEPA, the students who studied and practiced wellwill begoing back to their villages to practice directly on their production farms and also learn more knowledge from their communities. At the end of Dec 2013 FFS-HEPA organized a study tour to FFS-Long Lan for a student group comprised of students who arepracticingintheir own communities andsome students from FFS-HEPA
In this trip, the student group accessed local knowledge and wisdom of the Hmong community which was shared by village elders. The group had a chance to meet the donors of CCFD who were working at this village. In addition, the group also applied some lessons learned from FFS-HEPA on the FFS-Long Lan garden.
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