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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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...