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Farmers' participatory on-farm research and promotion was conducted in collaboration between the Nepal Agricultural Research Council(NARC), NGOs, Farmers’ Self Help Groups (FSHGs), International Agricultural Research Centers (IARCs), advanced research institutes and ICRISAT. To begin with, the co...

The founding principle for the creation of GDD was that increased interaction between key stakeholders was critical for sustainable dam development. The project successfully brought together dam affected communities, hydropower authorities, government ministries and other organizations by facilit...

A resource book that includes concepts and terms in participatory monitoring; synthesis of the lessons learned, organized along two broad themes: planning and implementing participatory monitoring and the main impacts of participatory monitoring; and a table of publications organized by theme: fo...

An African Innovation Platform (forum) that links research, information and policy geared towards promoting opportunities for small-scale African producers. The forum provides leverage for small-scale producers, processors, marketers, exporters and regulators to work together and improve their li...

During the field visits, participants (usually pilot growers) were provided with technical backstopping and information on specific technologies and management practices

Second phase of RUPES, a program that operationalizes the concept of rewarding people to protect or enhance environmental services that benefit businesses or the wider population. It takes on the challenge of devising schemes that actually work in practice and can sustain themselves without ongoi...

The project ‘Reinforcing the resilience of poor rural communities in the face of food insecurity, poverty and climate change through on-farm conservation of local agrobiodiversity’ will: investigate the use of neglected and underutilized species in increasing the adaptation and resilience of prod...

Rapid rural appraisal was used in the first phase of the research, which covered 5 administrative regions in Tanzania (over 200 farmers from 10 irrigation schemes). The major finding was that investing in improvements to existing community-managed river diversion irrigation schemes can lead to ga...

The participatory domestication of high-value indigenous fruit, nut and medicinal trees is an ICRAF program implemented in various countries. Villagers are helped to develop local nurseries, taught skills of vegetative propagation, and assisted with the technical implementation of selecting super...

The Participatory Technology Development (PTD) project, a component of PN24 ‘Livelihood Resilience in Dry Areas’ which is a project of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, was extensively documented in the book, “Gathering Wisdom from the Field: Participatory Technology Development in U...