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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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Digital Meteorological Bulletin
In what context is this tool useful?
The Digital Meteorological Bulletin automatically collects and visualizes meteorological data, allowing users to track rainfall distribution and other key variables in real time. By providing accessible, field-level climate information, it helps optimize resource use and reduce risks associated with weather variability.
The tool supports research, field operations, and climate monitoring at the Americas Hub. It is particularly valuable…
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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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Cacao diversity tool
In what context is this tool useful?
This tool is useful for cacao farmers in Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and provides location-specific information about the predicted impact of climate change on cacao plantations in these countries.
The tool shows the areas in these countries that are suitable for cultivated cacao rainfed and under irrigation, wild cacao, and the ecogeographical zones under current climatic conditions.
The tool also indicates…
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Application Tumaini : santé des cultures de bananes et de haricots
Application mobile Tumaini
Dans quel contexte cet outil est-il utile ?
Avec Tumaini, la détection précoce des maladies et des ravageurs devient possible, permettant ainsi de prévenir les foyers d’infestation et de préserver les cultures. L’application analyse les photos téléchargées pour fournir des diagnostics précis, et ses données…
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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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Crop Observatories
In what context is this tool useful?
The Crop Observatories are useful for anyone who needs to integrate many sources of data on certain key crops: from trade to production and consumption, including articles, guidelines, databases and more.
Variations, applications and scaling
The Crop Observatories platforms are designed to be adaptable and scalable, allowing for the inclusion of additional crops and…
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Diversité pour la restauration - D4R
Results are provided to the user as a report to be downloaded directly or received by email. The report is intended to serve as a guide for selecting appropriate species and seed sources for restoration of the specified site. Propagation protocols of individual species can be downloaded through hyperlinks. Recommended indicators for monitoring the success of restoration interventions are also included…
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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…
