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Context: Aims to increase availability and use of high-quality seed, thus contributing to agricultural development and food security. The Platform uses available information and technologies, brings key stakeholders of seed systems in contact with knowledge, scientific tools and best practices, c...

The GILB is a worldwide concerted response to potato late blight, the most devastating disease that threatens potato crops worldwide. GILB is a network of researchers, technology developers and agricultural knowledge agents that serves as a platform to exchange ideas and opinions, and facilitates...

The Potato Park, located in Pisaq in the Sacred Valley of Peru, is one of the few in-situ conservation initiatives in the world where the local people are managing and protecting local genetic resources and traditional knowledge about their health, food, and agriculture. About 600 varieties of na...

Farmer field school is used as an approach to managing pests and diseases. It center around a 'living laboratory' where farmers are trained to identify insects and diseases and compare results on two subplots – one using conventional chemical pest control and the other using IPM. On the improved ...

The Plataformas are alliances between farmers and suppliers of agricultural services, including research institutes, NGOs, universities, and local governments that facilitate key knowledge-sharing and learning events. It also links smallholders’ organizations to higher value markets for their pro...

Farmer business schools help enhance farmer capacity to participate in and benefit from agricultural market chains. It builds on the group-based experiential learning mode of farmer field schools, while shifting from a production- to a marketing-oriented curricular framework. Elements of training...

The project seeks to reduce child malnutrition and improve smallholder incomes through the effective production and expanded use of sweet potato. It aims to build consumer awareness of sweet potato’s nutritional benefits, diversify its use, and increase market opportunities, especially in expandi...

Papa Andina is a network that coordinated actions with a broad network of public and private partners in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. One of its main objectives was to promote innovation systems for poor farmers to improve their food security, facilitate market access and reduce poverty. It develop...

UPWARD is an Asian network of scientists and development specialists linking users and R&D professionals together for more effective agricultural innovation. It seeks to link users and R&D professionals for more effective agricultural innovation; bring sustained benefits to less favored farming a...

The project aimed at restoring and conserving the genetic diversity of native potatoes in situ – high in the Andes, where the crops originated. Scientists, farmers, and local partners repatriated over 4,600 samples of more than 1,200 varieties of native potato in 41 locations, following the ancie...