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Geoffrey Hawtin: Catalyst for Agricultural Innovation Honored with World Food Prize
We're delighted to announce the prestigious recognition of Geoffrey Hawtin - a luminary in agricultural innovation - with the prestigious World Food Prize for 2024. This accolade celebrates his pivotal role in advancing biodiversity conservation and sustainable agriculture, particularly during his tenure at Bioversity International and CIAT,…
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Boosting bean-based products: scaling SMEs in Malawi and Zambia
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141790
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Market and consumer-oriented product development and optimization interventions encompassing rapid market assessments, sensory evaluation and consumer acceptability, food safety and nutrition quality assessments, processing and production factors assessments, and willingness to pay studies were implemented through private-public partnerships in Malawi and Zambia. Seven small-scale processors improved their product production…
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ACAP links with RCMAS for enhanced farm advisories
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141804
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The Alliance continues to support the Bicol region in the Philippines in scaling out the use of the Agro-Climatic Advisory Portal (ACAP) by linking the platform via Application Programming Interface (API) to the Rice Crop Manager Advisory Service (RCMAS), a digital tool used by the Department of Agriculture to provide rice farmers with specific crop and nutrient management recommendations, bundled with climate services reaching at least…
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Agroecological transformation in Kenya: partner organizations lead change
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141791
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In-depth engagement processes and collaboration with the implementing partners of the Agroecology Initiative, Dry Lands Natural Resources Centre (DNRC) and Sustainable Agriculture and Healthy Environmental Program (CSHEP), led these partners to incorporate innovative agroecological co-design processes in their capacity sharing for development activities. This led to 282 participating farmers being exposed to these…
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Enhancing climate forecasting in West Africa and the Sahel
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141789
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Thanks to AICCRA capacity building on Next Generation (NextGen) seasonal climate forecast systems, the AGRHYMET Regional Climate Centre for West Africa and the Sahel has adopted an objective, traceable, and reproducible seasonal forecasting procedure that enables the generation of improved seasonal forecasts. The NextGen approach is fully operational at AGRHYMET, and NextGen forecasting products are being used to upgrade the…
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NextGen agroadvisory boosts Ethiopian wheat yields by 38%
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141792
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Site-specific, season-smart fertilizer recommendations boosted wheat yields by 38% among smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, prompting government attention for wider promotion. Piloted with key partners, the approach reached over 50,000 farmers, with 8,316 (16.6%) adopting the recommendations, 20% of whom were women. The initiative marked a shift from the traditional blanket recommendations to precise, digitally-enabled fertilizer…
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ClimBeR analyses position climate-security risks at the top of national, regional, and pan-African policy agendas for a more resilient and peaceful future.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141797
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CGIAR’s Climate Resilience Initiative (ClimBeR) analyses — produced under the Climate Security Observatory (CSO) — informed the strategic direction of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development Center of Excellence for Climate Adaptation and Environmental Protection (IGAD-CAEP) and the African Union towards adopting stronger…
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Community seed banks boost seed, food and nutrition security for thousands in Kenya and Uganda
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141788
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Alliance-supported community seed banks in Kenya (since 2019) and Uganda (since 2010) have maintained 72 crop and tree species and more than 600 varieties. Up to September 2023, they distributed 14,100 kg seeds of important food crops, with a value of US$ 36,870. Total sales of seeds and products derived from these crops/trees was US$ 98,530. These activities have provided 2,630 farming…
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Hacia el éxito de los programas de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático: Conocimientos del cambio climático, actitudes y comportamientos ambientales de los estudiantes de educación superior, profesores y jóvenes profesionales del sector…
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/91540
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2018
Authors
Díaz, Manuel Francisco
Burkart, Stefan…
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AICCRA fosters foresight analysis community of practice in West and Central Africa
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141803
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Responding to CORAF demand, AICCRA capacity development, including a foresight training toolkit, has catalyzed and capacitated a CORAF-led regional foresight Community of Practice (CoP) —12 experts (50% women), from 9 countries in West and Central Africa. CoP members mainstreamed the acquired knowledge/skills within their respective institutions to: (i) support innovative strategic planning and policy…
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An Ancient Water Management System in Sri Lanka Comes Back to Life: Here's Why
The 'Tank Cascade Systems' are ancient infrastructure based on practices that have been passed down from generation to generation, sustaining the activities of local people and providing habitats for plants and animals. These systems that are essential to life in the dry region of Sri Lanka were recognized in 2017 as a Globally Important…
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Banking on Biodiversity: conservation starts with seeds
2024 is a landmark year for biodiversity. In the leadup to COP16 in Cali, we are called to find solutions to protect and sustainably use agrobiodiversity. Crop conservation begins with seeds. Around the globe, researchers and farming communities are collaborating to collect, save, and share seeds: in seedbanks and genebanks. …
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Agricultural credit as an engine of rural development: Challenges and opportunities in Colombia
For farming systems in in developing countries, access to credit is a crucial factor in driving innovation, optimizing resource distribution, and reducing inequalities. However, this landscape becomes complicated when considering other aspects such as environmental impacts, poverty alleviation, and the livelihoods of rural communities.…
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Quo Vadis? Opportunities and Bottlenecks for Improved Forage Seed Markets in East Africa
Jesús Fernando Flórez Herrera, Stefan Burkart
In East Africa the livestock sector is one of the most important subsectors of agriculture in economic, social, and environmental terms, and dairy farming is of special relevance as it is practiced by most smallholder farmers. Forage is a key element of the feed basket in…
