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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...

Employs participatory approach to rehabilitate common property resources by developing biodiesel plantations through 1) consortium approach among govt. line departments, NGOs, CBOs, and ICRISAT; and 2) collective action

Research conducted in Mauritania.

It facilitates dialogue between the main local players in the value chain: farmers, input suppliers, traders, transporters, processors, wholesalers, retailers, regulators, and the research and development fraternity

The objective of the project was to identify investment options and opportunities in agricultural water management with the greatest potential to improve incomes and food security for poor farmers. Participatory opportunity and constraint analysis and methodology was used in the field-scale and c...

IRRI works towards farmer-to-farmer exchange in incorporating new production strategies. It highlights farmer participation in designing and running these programs. Having had successful projects in improved crop management in the region, CIAT, through the FLAR initiative, is an important partner...

15 participants were guided in developing a business case write-ups of data collected from participatory trials of IRRI Superbags as well as business plan for adopting improved storage and drying technologies. The farmers were assisted in using tools that quantify financial benefits to their own ...

A participatory breeding project conducted in Syria with the objective of testing an alternative way to produce improved varieties of crops grown in marginal environments such as barley. The project uses decentralized selection as a methodology to fit crops to the physical (climate and management...