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Research conducted in Mauritania.

It facilitates dialogue between the main local players in the value chain: farmers, input suppliers, traders, transporters, processors, wholesalers, retailers, regulators, and the research and development fraternity

The objective of the project was to identify investment options and opportunities in agricultural water management with the greatest potential to improve incomes and food security for poor farmers. Participatory opportunity and constraint analysis and methodology was used in the field-scale and c...

IRRI works towards farmer-to-farmer exchange in incorporating new production strategies. It highlights farmer participation in designing and running these programs. Having had successful projects in improved crop management in the region, CIAT, through the FLAR initiative, is an important partner...

15 participants were guided in developing a business case write-ups of data collected from participatory trials of IRRI Superbags as well as business plan for adopting improved storage and drying technologies. The farmers were assisted in using tools that quantify financial benefits to their own ...

A participatory breeding project conducted in Syria with the objective of testing an alternative way to produce improved varieties of crops grown in marginal environments such as barley. The project uses decentralized selection as a methodology to fit crops to the physical (climate and management...

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...

Participatory research with local communities through planning-action-reflection steps attempting to engage in equitable collective action, to secure property rights and to articulate aspirations through development forums. Local officials were also engaged in advocacies for collaborative land us...

IRRI is a platform and mechanism for partnerships between national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) and IRRI. One major line of work is Country Outreach Programs, wherein IRRC staff members work closely with in-country partners to exchange information on technological developme...

CURE is a platform within which national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) and IRRI researchers can partner together with farmers and extension workers to tackle key problems in sites representative of the diverse ecosystems. Its strategy involves on-site farmer-participatory re...