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Moroccan farmers are becoming more involved in managing supply chains, notably through local and regional cooperatives, particularly for milk. However, despite the state’s attempts to transfer responsibilities to associations of water users, it retains control of large-scale irrigation schemes. I...


Harvey, BlaneEnsor, JonathanGarside, BenWoodend, JohnNaess, Lars OttoCarlile, Liz[Developing self-perpetuating social learning: moving from constructive intervention to more autonomous group learning for drip irrigation in Morocco]Developing self-perpetuating social learning: moving from constructive intervention to more autonomous group learning for drip irrigation in Morocco

The GILB is a worldwide concerted response to potato late blight, the most devastating disease that threatens potato crops worldwide. GILB is a network of researchers, technology developers and agricultural knowledge agents that serves as a platform to exchange ideas and opinions, and facilitates...


Gonsalves, Julian[Global Initiative on Late Blight (GILB)]Global Initiative on Late Blight (GILB)

The Potato Park, located in Pisaq in the Sacred Valley of Peru, is one of the few in-situ conservation initiatives in the world where the local people are managing and protecting local genetic resources and traditional knowledge about their health, food, and agriculture. About 600 varieties of na...


Gonsalves, Julian[Potato Park]Potato Park

The project will adopt a value chain approach and will build the capacity of farmers and farmers’ organizations (FOs) and their service providers (SPs) (e.g. NARES, NGOs, input suppliers, etc.) to ensure that technical innovations as well as improved access to yam markets will sustainably benefit...


Gonsalves, Julian[Yam improvement for income and food security in West Africa]Yam improvement for income and food security in West Africa

Farmer field school is used as an approach to managing pests and diseases. It center around a 'living laboratory' where farmers are trained to identify insects and diseases and compare results on two subplots – one using conventional chemical pest control and the other using IPM. On the improved ...


Gonsalves, Julian[Farmer field schools]Farmer field schools

The Plataformas are alliances between farmers and suppliers of agricultural services, including research institutes, NGOs, universities, and local governments that facilitate key knowledge-sharing and learning events. It also links smallholders’ organizations to higher value markets for their pro...


Gonsalves, Julian[Multistakeholder platforms (plataformas de concertación)]Multistakeholder platforms (plataformas de concertación)

The Future Scenarios initiative works in a participatory and interactive way with technical advisors and other key stakeholders in East and West Africa to build some up pictures of different worlds, or narratives, that identify the uncertainties that policy-makers may be faced with at the regiona...


Harvey, BlaneEnsor, JonathanCarlile, LizGarside, BenPatterson, ZacharyNaess, Lars Otto[Future Scenarios]Future Scenarios

On the ground empirical testing of the use of the climate analogue tool as support for designing adaptation strategies in agriculture. The CCAFS “Farms of the Future” project uses the climate analogue tool to connect farmers to their possible climate futures via farm visits. This novel approach o...


Gonsalves, Julian[Farms of the future project]Farms of the future project

Farmer business schools help enhance farmer capacity to participate in and benefit from agricultural market chains. It builds on the group-based experiential learning mode of farmer field schools, while shifting from a production- to a marketing-oriented curricular framework. Elements of training...


Gonsalves, Julian[Farmer business schools]Farmer business schools

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