This project will focus on improving smallholders’ production skills, increasing demand awareness, and establishing effective and efficient linkages among value-chain stakeholders to gain wider market access.
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Improved forage-based feeding systems for smallholder livelihoods in the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam development triangle]
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Improved forage-based feeding systems for smallholder livelihoods in the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam development triangle
The project aims to improve smallholder livelihoods in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda by increasing the availability of dry-season forage for their livestock. Work is jointly carried out with farmers already members of different research and development networks.
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Dry-season forages to improve the livelihoods of smallholders in Eastern Africa]
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Dry-season forages to improve the livelihoods of smallholders in Eastern Africa
The model is designed to generate a more focused research agenda by targeting areas for potential high impact, identifying needs and opportunities, and recognizing the need for flexibility to take projects to scale, measure their impacts, and adjust their lessons to research projects and prioriti...
The project seeks to engage with a wide range of stakeholders to strengthen the capacity of poor livestock keepers to select and adopt fodder options as well as access market opportunities to enable them to improve their livelihoods. Among its targets, it seeks to establish mechanisms for strengt...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Enhancing livelihoods of poor livestock keepers through increased use of fodder]
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Enhancing livelihoods of poor livestock keepers through increased use of fodder
The overall goal of this project is to contribute to poverty alleviation, food security, improved nutrition, and better resource management through market-oriented organic agriculture. Farmers in selected communities (with emphasis on gender and marginalized groups) and other key stakeholders wil...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Going to scale: developing strategies for scaling out market-oriented organic agriculture from farmer group to association level in Africa]
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Going to scale: developing strategies for scaling out market-oriented organic agriculture from farmer group to association level in Africa
HCP is an information sharing and communication platform for linking farmers, agri-service businesses, the public-private sector, the scientific community and outside CSISA stakeholders. The vision of the HCP is to serve as a multi-directional, location based, information sharing system in suppor...
Moroccan farmers are becoming more involved in managing supply chains, notably through local and regional cooperatives, particularly for milk. However, despite the state’s attempts to transfer responsibilities to associations of water users, it retains control of large-scale irrigation schemes. I...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Garside, Ben
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Woodend, John
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Naess, Lars Otto
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Carlile, Liz
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[Developing self-perpetuating social learning: moving from constructive intervention to more autonomous group learning for drip irrigation in Morocco]
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Developing self-perpetuating social learning: moving from constructive intervention to more autonomous group learning for drip irrigation in Morocco
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....
Gonsalves, Julian
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[Integrating crops and livestock for improved food security and livelihoods in rural Zimbabwe]
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Integrating crops and livestock for improved food security and livelihoods in rural Zimbabwe
CAPRi is an Inter-Center Initiative of CGIAR that examines the formation and effectiveness of voluntary, community-level organizations and property institutions as they relate to natural resource management. It aims to promote comparative research on the role played by property and collective act...
Gonsalves, Julian
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[System-wide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)]
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System-wide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)
The GILB is a worldwide concerted response to potato late blight, the most devastating disease that threatens potato crops worldwide. GILB is a network of researchers, technology developers and agricultural knowledge agents that serves as a platform to exchange ideas and opinions, and facilitates...