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Social learning on climate-smart practices among a network of farmers and researchers.

PPBs are based on dynamic collaboration between plant breeding institutions and farmers and are designed to ensure that research is directly relevant to farmers’ needs. As most of the programs take place in farmers’ fields, PPB programs can maintain and enhance agricultural biodiversity much more...

Commune agro-ecosystems analysis (CAEA) is a participatory approach designed to help communities improve decision making at the commune (subdistrict) level. To better integrate fisheries considerations into the CAEA process, the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) initiated the proje...

Uses the thaibaan research methodology (called 'sao ban' in Laotian), a participatory process for video production to help villagers explore the positive and negative impacts of dams outside the immediate dam area. The output is a series of short films and documentaries made by communities, and w...

Farmers' participatory on-farm research and promotion was conducted in collaboration between the Nepal Agricultural Research Council(NARC), NGOs, Farmers’ Self Help Groups (FSHGs), International Agricultural Research Centers (IARCs), advanced research institutes and ICRISAT. To begin with, the co...

The founding principle for the creation of GDD was that increased interaction between key stakeholders was critical for sustainable dam development. The project successfully brought together dam affected communities, hydropower authorities, government ministries and other organizations by facilit...

A resource book that includes concepts and terms in participatory monitoring; synthesis of the lessons learned, organized along two broad themes: planning and implementing participatory monitoring and the main impacts of participatory monitoring; and a table of publications organized by theme: fo...

An African Innovation Platform (forum) that links research, information and policy geared towards promoting opportunities for small-scale African producers. The forum provides leverage for small-scale producers, processors, marketers, exporters and regulators to work together and improve their li...

During the field visits, participants (usually pilot growers) were provided with technical backstopping and information on specific technologies and management practices

Second phase of RUPES, a program that operationalizes the concept of rewarding people to protect or enhance environmental services that benefit businesses or the wider population. It takes on the challenge of devising schemes that actually work in practice and can sustain themselves without ongoi...