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Informal groups in Mauritania for water and soil conservation were set up and farmers and technicians were given hands-on training in building small dams, dikes, stone contour ridges, semi-circular bunds, terraces and runoff strips.

Under agreement with CIAT and led by the Universidad del Cauca, new forage technologies are being introduced and evaluated using a participatory approach working with small- and medium-sized livestock producers from northern Cauca, Colombia. The project aims to identify, assess and co-develop ger...

The overall goal of the project is to identify, test and prove ways to increase agricultural production, improve household food security, and alleviate poverty, thereby reducing food-aid dependency in rural Zimbabwe through better-integrated crop and livestock production and market participation....

This project will develop and test community-based breeding strategies for resource poor sheep owners in the highlands of Ethiopia. It will operationalize a rising approach in genetic improvement of livestock breeds that necessitates the involvement of local communities and institutions in the de...

PENAPH implements a program integrating targeted action research, policy enhancement and education. It nurtures collaborative research and diffusion of learning among experts in participatory epidemiology from around the world, to speed detection of emerging or re-emerging diseases. Emphasis is p...

The Reto-o-Reto project, led by a collaborative research – facilitation team, was designed to create the knowledge and relationships to enable poor pastoral and agro-pastoral communities to influence local and national land-use policies affecting their livelihoods (access to pasture, water) and t...

The purpose of this project is to strengthen local capacity for innovation in animal health systems in Ghibe Valley, Ethiopia. The project employs action research using asset-based community development (ABCD) and innovation systems (IS) approaches to derive lessons on (1) how to bring about sust...

PMCA was created from the application of RAAKS (Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Knowledge Systems) in the context of a market chain, using this action research method to discuss and resolve specific sectoral problems with a range of different stakeholders. It is a new approach to link small-scale...

Sustainable value chains by balancing economic, ecological and social benefits among actors and stakeholders.

Participatory modelling can be a useful process to encourage critical examination of livelihood options and foster sustainable natural resource use through enhanced social learning, collective action and mobilization. It involves stakeholders in the co-design and social learning of management sol...