Validation, testing of new tolerant rice varieties and appropriate management options; Technical innovation services/outscaling and upscaling technological innovations; Capacity enhancement and knowledge management.
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Enabling poor rice farmers to improve livelihoods and overcome poverty in South and Southeast Asia through the Consortium for Unfavourable Rice Environments (CURE)]
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Enabling poor rice farmers to improve livelihoods and overcome poverty in South and Southeast Asia through the Consortium for Unfavourable Rice Environments (CURE)
Researchers of ICARDA are slowly improving towards participatory and community-based approaches to incorporate users’ perspectives. This not only increases the efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural research, but delivers what farmers want. Development of integrated crop-livestock productio...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[A focus on the rural poor in drylands, research policy for ICARDA]
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A focus on the rural poor in drylands, research policy for ICARDA
Through networking of partners by way of a consortium approach, the project has demonstrated that 50% of chemical fertilizers can be substituted with the locally-produced vermicompost that the farmers themselves make. In Madhya Pradesh 800 trials were conducted, and a 1000 in Rajasthan, during th...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Improving rural livelihoods and minimizing land degradation through the community watershed approach for sustainable development of dryland areas]
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Improving rural livelihoods and minimizing land degradation through the community watershed approach for sustainable development of dryland areas
A new conservation actor, the forest steward community, is emerging in Central America as an effective collaborator in forest conservation. An innovative participatory research in Guatemala and Nicaragua was conducted aiming to strengthen community capabilities in natural resource management. A G...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[‘If you saw it with my eyes’: collaborative research and assistance with Central American forest steward communities]
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‘If you saw it with my eyes’: collaborative research and assistance with Central American forest steward communities
The MSP aims for sustained dissemination to and widespread adoption of ricetechnologies by farmers by embracing a public-private partnership model that brings together various government and non-government organizations in the region representing the different sectors of the rice value chain.
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Multistakeholder partnership (MSP) platform for rice in Agusan del Norte, Philippines]
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Multistakeholder partnership (MSP) platform for rice in Agusan del Norte, Philippines
Research to understand and design ways that can harness the full potential of social networks. The study is designed in such a way to include participatory and inter-disciplinary research. These include: Qualitative methods of data collection. Focus groups meeting with men and women farmers in th...
The partnership’s mission is to improve ways of linking indigenous peoples and local communities interested in pursuing self-determined development and to facilitate such communities in taking a leadership role in agrobiodiversity dialogues. It aims to advocate and strengthen the voice of indigen...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Indigenous partnership for agrobiodiversity and food sovereignty]
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Indigenous partnership for agrobiodiversity and food sovereignty
143 participants from the villages of Gnngarampur, local government representatives, and staff members of the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA)-Khulna Hub attended a field day for participatory evaluation by farmers of salt-tolerant aman rice varieties at Khulna District (Banglades...
Farmer participatory variety selection (PVS) of 39 improved groundnut varieties resulted in the selection of 17 varieties having traits preferred by farmers and the market. Of these, 13 have been released and 23 are in the pre-released stage. Intensification of scaling up and out of PVS in other ...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Farmer participatory variety selection (PVS) as part of enhancing groundnut productivity and production]
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Farmer participatory variety selection (PVS) as part of enhancing groundnut productivity and production
The STARGO project aims to build resilient livelihoods among poor rural producers who depend on the highly contested natural resources in the freshwater ecoregions of Lake Victoria, Lake Kariba and the Tonle Sap Lake, with the intent of improving nutrition, income, welfare and human security, whi...