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New groundnut varieties are empowering women farmers in Mali after a 3-year long participatory research in the selection and evaluation of improved groundnut varieties has yielded positive results. Women groundnut farmers in the village of Wakoro have selected the varieties ICGV86124, Fleur 11 an...

A guidebook that resulted from the research project, “Stakeholders and Biodiversity in the Forest at the Local Level,” second of two initiatives between SDC and CIFOR that have worked to improve people’s livelihoods and contribute to sustainable forest through action research. The contents of the...

This project is designed to develop in a farmer-participatory manner pearl millet [Pennisetumglaucum (L.) R. Br.] and sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] populations or cultivars with specific adaptation to different production environments in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. It consists of two su...

Thirty-nine (39) new varieties were tested by farmers under their management and resources across Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal under the CFC funded Groundnut Seed Project the four countries. Out of the varieties tested, 17 were selected based on the farmers’ village level criteria which inclu...

Improved' impact assessment tool that takes full account of production and livelihood impacts of modified river flows along with the traditional assessment of ecological impacts, and the interactions between these. It builds upon commonly used frameworks for Environmental Impact Assessments but p...

The Landscape Mosaics project intended participatory action research (PAR) as one of two central approaches in the original research design (the other approach being more conventional research). However there was failure to implement PAR in the 5 sites as described and analyzed in the book entitl...

Provides a set of concepts and practical tools for use by Climate Change Adaptation in Africa program grantees working to support stakeholders (communities, government agencies, policy makers) in their efforts to adapt ? or to help others adapt ? climate  change. The Guide nevertheless presents a...

A research that uses a series of Participatory Action Research (PAR) tools to identify specific management problems, attempts to analyse those problems and establishes collaborative arrangements for future management inputs into the Ottotomo Forest Reserve in the Central Province of Cameroon, one...

Approach implemented by the African Highlands Initiative in its technology adoption program. It features the inclusion of farmers in AHI’s research processes. It also adopts a team-based, multidisciplinary approach toward solving locally identified problems.

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...