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Context: The Learning Alliance looks for leverage points for social learning in value chain systems and analysis linking rural farmers with markets. It uses an approach for building multistakeholder innovation systems that develop collaborative teams and learning platforms with development NGOs a...

Context: To examine global food production value chain interventions for local development impact. Poverty and agro-potential assessments are done to identify key intervention areas to reduce poverty and build development opportunities by linking smallholder farmers with local and global markets....

Context: Newer farming practices that favour monoculture are dependent on the use of pesticides and chemicals to stave off plagues. Along with human health risks associated with the use of these products, bacteria, virus and pests develop resistance to chemicals and pesticides over time. Also new...

Context: The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) is an Africa-wide network established to provide readily available analysis, data, and tools of the highest quality to promote evidence-based decision-making, improve awareness of the role of agriculture for developme...

NMRiceMobile is designed to help farmers increase their production and profit by allowing them to receive advice via their mobile phone on applying the right type of fertilizer in the right amount and at the optimum time, thereby reducing fertilizer waste. It incorporates the principles of site-s...

CIP-Papa Andina has developed a tool to more fully integrate gender and women’s participation in innovation-promoting methodologies. The tool is comprised of guidelines with practical recommendations for mainstreaming gender into innovation promoting methodologies, thus converting strategy into p...

Context: Vulnerability of farmers equals vulnerability of supply chain. Inclusive management involves those that contribute to growing, selling and changing strategies. Crop modelling under different climate conditions requires knowledge of who’s growing, selling and involved in the supply chain....

Through participatory research and development with farmers, extension agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, and agribusinesses along the value chain, the program aims to improve maize and legume productivity by 30% and to reduce the expected downside yield risk by 30% on approx...

Project to double or even triple smallholder maize yields using sustainable techniques that regenerate the natural resource base without an overall increase in labour or the need to apply nitrogen fertilizers, using agroforestry techniques and conservation agriculture techniques. The Farmer Manag...

Context: This project developed a standardized data collection procedure to make women’s participation in rice cultivation visible. There is a need to reduce the gap between men and women in terms of access to technologies, technical knowledge and capacity enhancing programs. Research on family c...