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Seed producers’ groups in seven villages in Lamjung, Tanahun, and Gorkha districts were formed in 2012. Since then, the production of lowland rice seeds doubled and upland rice seeds more than tripled. The groups have also been a means for CURE to introduce new varieties to the communities throug...

MCA is a decision-making tool developed for complex problems. In a situation where multiple criteria are involved confusion can arise if a logical, well-structured decision-making process is not followed. Another difficulty in decision making is that reaching a general consensus in a multidiscipl...

The activity was attended by more than 100 farmers from Hardinath, Nepal; representatives from government organizations; and Forward, an NGO of Dhanusha District, Nepal. The field day provided farmers and scientists to interact at a gathering in NRRP after the field visits. A joint seed productio...

The SAFE project aims to enhance food security through groundnut production by improving crop productivity, diversifying income regimes, and strengthening local institutions. The project used a farmer field school approach in where each school had between 20 and 30 members, who were mostly women ...

ACM is a participatory approach that links forest stakeholders, empowers local communities and their subgroups, and strengthens adaptive capacities. It is a value-adding approach whereby people who have interests in a forest agree to act together to plan, observe and learn from the implementation...

In general these methods comprise means to broaden the knowledge and the skills of target groups as well as to learn about potential structures and strategies of dissemination. Among the most important methods are: participatory variety selection, community-based seed systems, Integrated Soil Fer...

Strategy to improve the uptake of postharvest technologies through alliances that examine a range of technical, end-user learning, and market support needs in postharvest systems. Characterized by participatory 'learning-by-doing' approach that allows all stakeholders to identify particular sourc...

Three farmers field days conducted in 2011 at 3 project sites in Bangladesh. More than 100 farmers, government extension personnel, researchers, project staff, and visited sites that feature farmers’ participatory conservation agriculture (CA)-based unpuddled transplanted rice (UPTR), zero-tillag...

A new generation of market-oriented farmers who are open to innovation and aware of the environment is developed in Niamey, Niger. Young students are provided with a wide range of production systems and also taught how to generate income process and market their products, save, and invest. They p...

Social survey (quantitative research) and participatory rural appraisal (PRA) (qualitative research) were carried out in a study conducted in Merek (Kermanshah Province) and Honam (Lorestan Province) in Iran. The study aims to find new ways of improving the incomes of rural households, based on t...