Short learning videos that capture new or improved agricultural technologies and practices are created by farmers, for farmers. These videos, available on the Digital Green Web site, are shared among similar communities through facilitated discussion.
Uses Digital Green approach which aims to ...
The CSB comprises a group of well trained and committed farmers who process seeds from a range of individuals or groups who share seeds among themselves. These groups 'learn-by-doing' the best management options to ensure seed purity and quality of seeds they produced on-farm. The CSB, as a modal...
An on-farm participatory varietal selection (PVS) of stress-tolerant varieties (both
submergence and salinity) was held in Bac Lieu Province, South Vietnam to test
adaptability in the locality and acceptability by the farmers. An approach used to
evaluate was preference analysis, where farmers...
A model for partnership in community-based watershed management was developed by establishing consortia that bring together institutions from public sector research, civil society and farming communities to share their knowledge in an equitable and efficient manner, and implement multidisciplinar...
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...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Participatory research in the selection and evaluation of improved groundnut varieties in Mali]
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Participatory research in the selection and evaluation of improved groundnut varieties in Mali
Primary aim of the Task Force is to increase understanding of the inter-relationships between traditional and formal (scientific) forest-related knowledge and catalyze potential synergistic application(s) to sustainable forest management. Among its many tasks is to develop and facilitate a proto...
A participatory rural appraisal tool to help people visualize and analyze the way in which an innovation is spread over time between community members. It distinguishes innovators, and early and late adopters. It is also a way of helping both outsiders and the community to understand some of the ...
A guidebook that resulted from the research project, “Stakeholders and Biodiversity in the Forest at the Local Level,” second of two initiatives between SDC and CIFOR that have worked to improve people’s livelihoods and contribute to sustainable forest through action research. The contents of the...
This project is designed to develop in a farmer-participatory manner pearl millet [Pennisetumglaucum (L.) R. Br.] and sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] populations or cultivars with specific adaptation to different production environments in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. It consists of two su...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Farmer-participatory improvement of sorghum and pearl millet genetic resources for increased adaptation to diverse production environments in West Africa]
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Farmer-participatory improvement of sorghum and pearl millet genetic resources for increased adaptation to diverse production environments in West Africa
Thirty-nine (39) new varieties were tested by farmers under their management and resources across Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal under the CFC funded Groundnut Seed Project the four countries. Out of the varieties tested, 17 were selected based on the farmers’ village level criteria which inclu...