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Exploring Yield Growth to 2050: Updating Exogenous Yield Growth Parameters in the IMPACT Model
In what context is this tool useful?
This tool has proven valuable in expert consultations and strategic discussions on future agricultural trends. In 2024, the Alliance organized 10 expert consultations—both online and in person—with crop scientists to explore plausible future yield trajectories for rice, cassava, beans, and banana/plantain across 30+ countries. The Power BI tool played a key role in these sessions…
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Boletín Meteorológico Digital
¿En qué contexto es útil esta herramienta?
El Boletín Meteorológico Digital recopila y visualiza automáticamente datos meteorológicos, permitiendo a los usuarios monitorear la distribución de lluvias y otras variables clave en tiempo real. Al proporcionar información climática accesible a nivel de campo, contribuye a optimizar el uso de recursos y a reducir los riesgos asociados con la variabilidad del clima.
La herramienta apoya la investigación, las operaciones de campo y el…
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Climate Resilience Platform
In what context is this tool useful?
Sustainability and procurement managers within the downstream agribusinesses will interpret the CRP results and recommendations as strategic input to their corporate planning processes to ensure the integration of climate risks and resilience into company-wide operations and long-term planning.
Results achieved
In 2024, Open Climate Resilience Platform was launched…
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Herramienta en línea sobre la diversidad del cacao
¿En qué contexto es útil esta herramienta?
Esta herramienta es útil para los productores de cacao de Perú, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala, y proporciona información específica sobre el impacto previsto del cambio climático en las plantaciones de cacao de estos países.
La herramienta muestra las zonas de estos países aptas para el cultivo bajo condiciones de lluvia y riego, el cacao silvestre, y las zonas ecogeográficas en las…
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Tumaini app: Aplicación Móvil para la Gestión de la Salud del Banano & Frijol
Tumaini Mobile App
¿En qué contexto es útil esta herramienta?
Con Tumaini, es posible la detección temprana de enfermedades y plagas, ayudando a prevenir brotes y preservar las cosechas de banano. La aplicación analiza fotos cargadas por los usuarios para proporcionar diagnósticos precisos, y sus datos georreferenciados permiten el…
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Developing gender-equitable ecological restoration initiatives
In what context is this tool useful?
In a context where restoration practitioners, and others working in the field of ecological restoration (who are not necessarily gender specialists), needs help to recognize, understand, design, and apply different programmatic strategies to address gender and enhance gender equality in and through restoration.
Social issues, including gender relations, are central to ecological restoration. Gender relations…
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OBSERVATORIOS DE CULTIVOS
¿En qué contexto es útil esta herramienta?
Los Observatorios de Cultivos son útiles para cualquier persona que necesite integrar múltiples fuentes de datos sobre ciertos cultivos clave: desde comercio hasta producción y consumo, incluyendo artículos, guías, bases de datos y más.
Variaciones, aplicaciones y escalamiento
Las plataformas de los Observatorios de Cultivos están diseñadas para ser adaptables…
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Diversidad para la Restauración - D4R
Los resultados se proporcionan a la persona usuaria en forma de un informe que puede descargarse directamente o recibirse por correo electrónico. El informe está diseñado para servir como guía en la selección de especies y fuentes de semillas apropiadas para la restauración del sitio especificado. Los protocolos de propagación de especies individuales pueden descargarse mediante hipervínculos. También se incluyen indicadores recomendados para el monitoreo del éxito de…
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Mr. Bean App
How to Install MrBean: An app for experimental trial analysis using Linear Mixed Models
In what context is this tool useful?
Mr. Bean app is useful in a context where is need it a convenient and accurate way to analyze agronomic data, visualize field patterns and select genotypes all in one place using the latest statistical and computational tools.
This tool incorporates descriptive analyses,…
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IoT Automated Plant Meter – LysipheN
In what context is this tool useful?
In the current context of climate change and the need to identify genotypes capable of adapting to new environmental conditions, LysipheN holds significant potential in its price, versatility, size, remote control, and waterproofness. The measured variables and their low-cost and portable characteristics enable a wide range of experiments. It is possible to combine multiple crops, different types of soil, varying levels of water access…
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Gamifying weather forecasting: “Let it rain” campaign
Promotional video for the "Let it rain" campaign, as part of a 2019 #InspireChallenge project
In what context is this tool useful?
In a context where farmers need timely and reliable agricultural information to face the changing climate and take better decisions about planting dates and agronomic management. According to a CGIAR report, a ten-day…
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Choco SAFE
In what context is this tool useful?
With 2019 implementation of a European Union (EU) regulation that strictly limits the amount of cadmium permitted in cacao and its products, farmers and other value chain actors need to know if their cacao can be made into products that meet the food safety standards. This is not straightforward. Different limits apply to different products, depending on the product composition and consumer characteristics.
Choco SAFE explains the EU regulations and helps users…
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Post Harvest Seed Phenotyping Platform (PHSPP)
In what context is this tool useful?
The PHSPP is useful in a context where seed morphological information is valuable in breeding programs, plant identification, seed banking, crop production, seed germination, ecological studies, and other research fields. It enables accurate identification, conservation, propagation, and understanding of plant species, supporting various applications in agriculture, and scientific inquiry…
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PowderBot
Seed powder extraction process, (A1) seed sampling capsule, (A2) seed ready to be perforated, (A3) 0.7 mm drill bit, (B) bean seed after hole drilling, (C) drill-hole depth (1.96 mm) on a bean seed, (D) seed drilled, (E) powder sample extracted.
In what context is this tool useful?
Seed DNA extraction is a valuable tool in plant breeding, genetics, seed quality analysis, molecular research, and genomics analysis. It…
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Seeds for Needs: citizen science and crowdsourcing
In what context is this tool useful?
Farmers are key to the initiative’s success. Globally, more than 50,000 farmers are involved as citizen scientists who evaluate and select varieties and provide critical feedback on the seeds that best meet their needs. Each participating farmer is randomly assigned three varieties out of a broader selection to compare with their own varieties over the course of a growing season and asked to…
