The ILAC Initiative consists of an evolving community of individuals committed to increasing the contributions of agricultural research to sustainable poverty reduction around the world. ILAC promotes research, methodology development and capacity development to increase understanding of agricult...
Watts, J.
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Horton, D.
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[Institutional Learning and Change: an initiative to promote greater impact through agricultural research for poverty alleviation]
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Institutional Learning and Change: an initiative to promote greater impact through agricultural research for poverty alleviation
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
This document is the result of a series of interviews carried out in November 2012 with extensionists, university professors, researchers, technicians, and extension service coordinators from different states in Brazil. A total of 14 professionals from CATI, ESALQUSP, EMPAER-MT, EMBRAPA, and inde...
Sette, Cristina
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Ekboir, Javier M.
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[An overview of rural extension in Brazil: the current situation]
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An overview of rural extension in Brazil: the current situation
A weak evaluative culture undermines many attempts at building an effective evaluation and results management regime. This brief outlines practical actions that an organization can take to build and support an evaluative culture, where information on performance is deliberately sought in order to...
Mayne, J.
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[Building an evaluative culture for effective evaluation and results management]
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Building an evaluative culture for effective evaluation and results management
This paper presents six key issues from the Rethinking Impact: Understanding the complexity of poverty and change Workshop (RIW) held in Cali, Colombia, March 28, 2008. The workshop discussed how agricultural and natural-resources research can be more effective in generating solutions for povert...
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Lilja, N.
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Watts, J.
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[Rethinking impact: understanding the complexity of poverty and change]
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Rethinking impact: understanding the complexity of poverty and change
One of the strategies for helping smallholder farmers cope with climate variability and change is the provision of climate services that better decision making around the planning and management of agricultural systems. However, providing such services with location specific timely and actionable...
Rao, K.P.C.
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Dakshina Murthy, K.
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Dhulipala, R.
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Bhagyashree S.D.
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Das Gupta, Mithun
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Sreepada, Soudamini
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Whitbread, Anthony M.
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[Delivering climate risk information to farmers at scale: the Intelligent agricultural Systems Advisory Tool (ISAT)]
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Delivering climate risk information to farmers at scale: the Intelligent agricultural Systems Advisory Tool (ISAT)
Kadyampakeni, D.
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Mul, Marloes L.
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Obuobie, Emmanuel
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Appoh, Richard K.
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Owusu, A.
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Ghansah, B.
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Boakye-Acheampong, Enoch
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Barron, Jennie
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[Agro-climatic and hydrological characterization of selected watersheds in northern Ghana]
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Agro-climatic and hydrological characterization of selected watersheds in northern Ghana
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas
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[Results of a global online expert survey: Major constraints, opportunities and trends for banana production and marketing and priorities for future RTB banana research.]
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Results of a global online expert survey: Major constraints, opportunities and trends for banana production and marketing and priorities for future RTB banana research.
Achieving and maintaining global food security is challenged by changes in population, income, and climate, among other drivers. Assessing these challenges and possible solutions over the coming decades requires a rigorous multidisciplinary approach. To answer this challenge, the International Fo...
Robinson, S.
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Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
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Islan, S.
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Cenacchi, N.
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Creamer, Bernardo
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Gueneau, A.
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Hareau, G.
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Kleinwechter, U.
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Mottaleb, K.
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Nedumaran, S.
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Robertson, R.
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Rosegrant, Mark W.
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Sika, G.
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Sulser, T.B.
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Wiebe, K.
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[Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Ex ante analysis of promising and alternative crop technologies using DSSAT and IMPACT]
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Climate change adaptation in agriculture: Ex ante analysis of promising and alternative crop technologies using DSSAT and IMPACT
Loechl, C.
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Lubowa, A.
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Cole, C.
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Prain, G.
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Low, J.W.
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[School-based nutrition education and promotion of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in urban and peri-urban areas of Kampala: Impacts and lessons learnt.]
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School-based nutrition education and promotion of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in urban and peri-urban areas of Kampala: Impacts and lessons learnt.