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Seed producers’ groups in seven villages in Lamjung, Tanahun, and Gorkha districts were formed in 2012. Since then, the production of lowland rice seeds doubled and upland rice seeds more than tripled. The groups have also been a means for CURE to introduce new varieties to the communities throug...

The SAFE project aims to enhance food security through groundnut production by improving crop productivity, diversifying income regimes, and strengthening local institutions. The project used a farmer field school approach in where each school had between 20 and 30 members, who were mostly women ...

Through a project on “Strengthening Capacity for Participatory Research and Development Project for South Asia” organized by CIP-UPWARD and funded by IDRC, the principles and learnings of PR&D are applied at ICRISAT by assessing the value of Pongamia oil seed cake as a source of organic plant nut...

New groundnut varieties are empowering women farmers in Mali after a 3-year long participatory research in the selection and evaluation of improved groundnut varieties has yielded positive results. Women groundnut farmers in the village of Wakoro have selected the varieties ICGV86124, Fleur 11 an...

Ex-combatant women were organized into groups and each group is provided land to grow rice on. The project supplied the necessary start-up finance for renting land, seed, and fertilizer while the women provided the labor. Using the farmer field school (FFS) approach, the women groups were provide...

The  project is aiming to improve adaptive management as women and youth contribute their knowledge and skills to community based adaptive management (CBAM) of resources of particular interest to women (e.g., mangrove fruits, mangrove shells, mangrove wood, near shore reef fish. The inclusion of ...

UPWARD is an Asian network of scientists and development specialists linking users and R&D professionals together for more effective agricultural innovation. It seeks to link users and R&D professionals for more effective agricultural innovation; bring sustained benefits to less favored farming a...

Global Challenge Dialogue on Women and Livestock is an e-consultation that involves knowledgeable and influential thinkers and doers from around the world in deepening understanding of the challenge, seeking ideas, and devising a strategy and action plan that will realize tangible impacts of figh...

CIP-Papa Andina has developed a tool to more fully integrate gender and women’s participation in innovation-promoting methodologies. The tool is comprised of guidelines with practical recommendations for mainstreaming gender into innovation promoting methodologies, thus converting strategy into p...

GAAP’s objective is to better understand gender and asset dynamics in agricultural development programs. GAAP core team members works with agricultural development projects in South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa to: identify how development projects impact men’s and women’s assets; clarify which st...