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Forage Africa Network
In what context is this tool useful?
For scientists: for knowledge exchange and collaboration that can leverage their strengths and overcome the weaknesses that may have amongst their research organizations.
For farmers: from the dry areas of North and West Africa to the tropical lands of East and Southern Africa, they can identify which are the species that best suit their needs in each region.
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Tropical Grasslands - Forrajes Tropicales Online Journal
In what context is this tool useful?
For authors: This tool is useful for young researchers who want to publish their findings and receive a comprehensive review of their work, including guidance from the editors to improve their manuscripts to assure the quality of the publication. Experienced researchers can publish as well with the confidence of receiving appropriate feedback of their findings. The outcome for both are the publication of their…
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Climate Risk Planning & Managing Tool for Development Programmes in Agri-food Systems (CRISP)
In what context is this tool useful?
With CRISP you can:
Conduct a quick and simple climate risk screening and develop a climate-focused adaptation hypothesis to strengthen your project proposal.
Identify or validate agricultural adaptation options that explicitly address agriculture system-specific climate impacts.
Get insights to inform your project monitoring & evaluation plan…
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An invention for clonal propagation for coconut to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of coconut diversity
Challenges associated with the conservation of coconut diversity and its use in selection and breeding
Coconut is the sixth most cultivated fruit in the world. Coconut roots, trunk, leaves, and the different components of its fruits (husk, shell and kernel, water and “apple”) are used for food, medicinal purposes, housing, wood energy, furniture, handicrafts. The demand for fresh nuts, mainly…
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Agrobiodiversity Diet Diagnosis Interventions Toolkit (ADD-IT)
In what context is this tool useful?
ADD-IT is especially useful in contexts where local health workers and community volunteers need structured, reliable information about local food systems to guide their work. This includes settings where understanding what foods are available in markets, which foods are in season, and the nutritional value of different food groups is essential for improving dietary guidance.
The tool is relevant when…
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Traditional Foodways: Participatory Documentation Approach
In what context is this tool useful?
This tool documents traditional food systems threatened by modernization, preserving knowledge across generations. It improves nutrition, conserves biodiversity, and empowers youth and women, supporting students, teachers, communities, NGOs, researchers, and policymakers. It aims to:
• Identify and inventory traditional foodways by assisting pupils in these communities to document their foodways of everyday life…
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CafeClima: Grow Smarter Coffee
What is CafeClima?
CafeClima is a decision-support tool that helps identify coffee varieties best suited to current and future climate conditions. It combines climate projections with real-world coffee variety performance data to support climate-resilient variety selection.
As climate change alters temperature and rainfall patterns in coffee-growing regions, choosing the right variety is becoming a critical factor for…
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Interactive Toolkit for Crop Wild Relative Conservation Planning
In what context is this tool useful?
It is useful to national authorities in charge of conservation or project coordinators or researchers to plan the in situ conservation of plant biodiversity. Three different groups of users may access and use this Toolkit:
FAO national focal points.
Agencies responsible for planning and implementing national strategies, such as national agricultural or environmental agencies.
NGOs (e.g. farmers’…
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iCLEANED: Environmental calculator for livestock production
In what context is this tool useful?
iCLEANED is useful in data-scarce regions to plan sustainable, inclusive, and profitable livestock interventions. Its trade-off outputs guide decisions on resource use, sustainable practices, farm productivity, and ecosystem outcomes.
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Monitoring and learning platform for impact assessment
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In what context is this tool useful?
Useful in research-for-development settings to monitor reach, learning, and adoption in real time. Enables adaptive decisions, enhances reporting, and integrates a socioeconomic data inventory for better project targeting and research design…
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Tropical Forages: an interactive selection tool
In what context is this tool useful?
This tool helps researchers, advisors, development specialists and farmers. It is useful in a context where users need to:
Identify a list of forage species suitable for particular combinations of climates, soils, production systems and management,
Access and download comprehensive information on these species with details of adaptation, uses and management of species, cultivars and elite accessions,
Access information…
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Terra – I
In what context is this tool useful?
Terra-i is used by governments, NGOs, and researchers for proactive forest monitoring and enforcement. It strengthens institutional capacity and promotes sustainable land-use decisions, contributing to global deforestation-reduction goals.
Terra-i tool is useful to identify land-cover changes resulting from human activities and make use of data at different levels. Stakeholders can use this information to carry out natural resource management actions and create…
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Targeting Tools
In what context is this tool useful?
It supports evidence-based spatial planning, investment targeting, and scaling. The platform can identify suitable or similar areas for interventions using transparent criteria.
Expected outcomes: better decision-making, higher impact per dollar invested, reduced risk, and defensible targeting in proposals and policies.
Results achieved or expected
Targeting Tools has been…
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NextGen Agroadvisory
Dans quel contexte cet outil est-il utile ?
Dans un contexte où il est nécessaire de développer des conseils agricoles spécifiques au site, au contexte et au climat — en particulier pour l’application des engrais — en intégrant la gestion intégrée de la fertilité des sols (ISFM), les services d’information climatique, les pratiques agricoles intelligentes face au climat (CSA) et d’autres investissements agricoles,
NextGen Agroadvisory est un outil intelligent d’aide à la décision conçu…
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Toolbox for working with Root, Tuber and Banana Seed Systems
In what context is this tool useful?
This tool is designed for researchers, practitioners, and development professionals across all contexts dealing with all aspects of the seed systems of vegetatively propagated crops. The tools have so far been applied on over > 80 crop x context case studies in > 25 countries.
Results
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