There have been repeated calls for a ‘new professionalism’ for carrying out agricultural research for development since the 1990s. At the centre of these calls is a recognition that for agricultural research to support the capacities required to face global patterns of change and their implicatio...
Douthwaite, Boru
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Apgar, J.M.
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Schwarz, Anne-Maree
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Attwood, S.
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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Clayton, T.
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[A new professionalism for agricultural research for development]
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A new professionalism for agricultural research for development
This working paper aims to synthesize and share learning from the experience of adapting and operationalizing the Research in Development (RinD) approach to agricultural research in the five hubs under the The CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. It seeks to share learning abou...
Douthwaite, Boru
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Apgar, J.M.
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Schwarz, A.
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McDougall, C.
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Attwood, S.
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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Clayton, Terry
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[Research in development: learning from the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems]
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Research in development: learning from the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems
Leeuwis, C.
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Schut, Marc
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Waters-Bayer, Ann
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Mur, Remco
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Atta-Krah, Kwesi
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Douthwaite, Boru
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[Capacity to innovate from a system CGIAR research program perspective]
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Capacity to innovate from a system CGIAR research program perspective
Scores of assessments of the impacts of agricultural research have been carried out over the years. However, few appear to have been used to improve decision making and the effectiveness of research programmes. The Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative emerged within the Consultativ...
Watts, J.
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Horton, D.
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Douthwaite, Boru
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La Rovere, R
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Thiele, Graham
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Prasad, S
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Staver, Charles
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[Transforming impact assessment : Beginning the quiet revolution of institutional learning and change]
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Transforming impact assessment : Beginning the quiet revolution of institutional learning and change
This article present a Bayesian probabilistic method to support out-scaling of technologies from pilot projects. The method is applied to aerobic rice, a water-saving technology with probable global potential. The method assumes that areas similar to pilot sites are more likely to adopt than thos...
Rubiano Mejía, Jorge Eliécer
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Cook, Simon E.
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Rajasekharan, Maya
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Douthwaite, Boru
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[A Bayesian method to support global out-scaling of water-efficient rice technologies from pilot project areas]
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A Bayesian method to support global out-scaling of water-efficient rice technologies from pilot project areas
This paper asks: What have been the impacts of farmer- or community-led (informal) processes of research and development in agriculture and natural resource management in terms of food security, ecological sustainability, economic empowerment, gender relations, local capacity to innovate and infl...
Waters-Bayer, Ann
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Wettasinha C
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Veldhuizen, L. van
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Quiroga, G
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Swaans, K.
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Douthwaite, Boru
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[Exploring the impact of farmer-led research supported by civil society organizations]
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Exploring the impact of farmer-led research supported by civil society organizations
Douthwaite, Boru
,
Apgar, J.M.
,
Schwarz, A.
,
McDougall, C.
,
Attwood, S.
,
Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
,
Clayton, T.
,
[Research in development: learning from the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems]
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Research in development: learning from the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems