Index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) products represent a promising and exciting innovation that could allow the benefits of insurance to protect the climate-related risks that vulnerable rural smallholder farmers and livestock keepers face. An interactive "game" workshop to explain index based...
Harvey, Blane
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Ensor, Jonathan
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Carlile, Liz
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Garside, Ben
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Patterson, Zachary
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Naess, Lars Otto
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[Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)]
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Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)
Millner, N.
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Penagaranicano, I.
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Fernández, M.
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Snook, L.K.
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[Community forestry organizations and equitable resource management in the Mayo Biosphere Reserve, Guatamala]
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Community forestry organizations and equitable resource management in the Mayo Biosphere Reserve, Guatamala
A set of factsheets about our Seeds for Needs Initiative in Ethiopia.
Bioversity International's 'Seeds for Needs' initiative works with farmers to research how agricultural biodiversity can help minimize the risks associated with climate change. The concept is simple – if farmers have better in...
Bioversity International
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[Strengthening the informal seed system through community seedbanks]
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Strengthening the informal seed system through community seedbanks
Pehou, C.
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Djoudi, H.
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Zida, M.
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Vinceti, B.
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[Preserver le Nere pour renforcer la securite alimentaire au Burkina Faso]
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Preserver le Nere pour renforcer la securite alimentaire au Burkina Faso
Byrnes, A.
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Sthapit, B.R.
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[A guide to the successful implementation of Community Biodiversity Management]
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A guide to the successful implementation of Community Biodiversity Management
This working paper reports on an evaluation designed to assess the usefulness of the skills gained during the training course, if the skills learned have been applied and, if so, how the new facilitation tools and techniques have changed meeting processes. The evaluation also identified obstacles...
Sette, Cristina
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Watts, J.
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[Group facilitation skills for participatory decision-making: report of a follow-up outcome evaluation]
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Group facilitation skills for participatory decision-making: report of a follow-up outcome evaluation
There have been repeated calls for a ‘new professionalism’ for carrying out agricultural research for development since the 1990s. At the centre of these calls is a recognition that for agricultural research to support the capacities required to face global patterns of change and their implicatio...
Douthwaite, Boru
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Apgar, J.M.
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Schwarz, Anne-Maree
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Attwood, S.
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Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali
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Clayton, T.
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[A new professionalism for agricultural research for development]
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A new professionalism for agricultural research for development
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in farmer research groups (FRG) to catalyse farmer
participation in research, and to widen the impact of participatory research. However, there is dearth of
systematic empirical studies that evaluates the quality of participation in FRG. Using e...
Sanginga, Pascal C.
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Lilja, Nina
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Tumwine, Jackson K.
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[29 p]
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[Assessing the quality of participation in farmers' research groups in the Highlands of Kabale, Uganda]
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Assessing the quality of participation in farmers' research groups in the Highlands of Kabale, Uganda
‘Lay’ experimentation1 in agriculture and natural resource management dates as far back
as the stone ages. It has led to the domestication of today’s crops and landraces, to the
development of numerous traditional agricultural practices, and to the existence of a
substantial body (or bodies) of I...
Saad, Nadine
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[Farmer processes of experimentation and innovation: a review of the literature]
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Farmer processes of experimentation and innovation: a review of the literature
Debido a que el presente informe semestral coincide con la finalizacion de la presente fase de financiamiento de dos anos por el programa de Small Grants.
Rosas, J
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[Metodologías Participativas para el Mejoramiento Genético del Frijol Común 1]
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Metodologías Participativas para el Mejoramiento Genético del Frijol Común 1