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Leadership Training Tool: Empowering women leaders for climate resilience and community change
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/181325
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The Leadership Training Tooll: Empowering Women Leaders for Climate Resilience and Community Change
is a comprehensive, participatory training guide designed to strengthen women’s leadership capacity in rural
and semi-urban contexts. Developed by the Alliance of Bioversity International, CIAT, and partners, the manual
responds to persistent gender gaps in leadership, decision-making, and access…
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Couple training tool: Building Partnerships for shared decision making in agriculture and enterprise
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/181327
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The Couple Training Tool: Building Partnerships for Shared Decision-Making in Agriculture and Enterprise is a
participatory training manual designed to strengthen collaboration between spouses in smallholder farming
and enterprise households. Developed by the Alliance of Bioversity International, CIAT, and partners, the tool
addresses persistent gender inequalities in household decision-…
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Advocacy training tool: Building strategic advocacy, negotiation & policy engagement skills
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/181326
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The “Building Strategic Advocacy, Negotiation & Policy Engagement Skills” training manual, developed by the
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, provides a comprehensive framework for empowering women
leaders and entrepreneurs. This strategic tool is designed to enhance leadership capacity and influence decision
making across household, community, and market levels.
The curriculum…
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Operationalizing the FAIR principles at CGIAR
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/181318
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This training framed FAIR as a practical approach to making CGIAR data reusable at scale, for both humans and machines. It clarified where FAIR applies and how to interpret “FAIR enough” in a CGIAR context. Through CGIAR-specific examples, common failure modes, and role-based responsibilities, the training showed that FAIR is not a one-off compliance task but a design choice embedded across the data lifecycle.
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Decision support for managing an invasive pathogen through efficient clean seed systems: Cassava mosaic disease in Southeast Asia
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175693
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Context
Effective seed systems must distribute high-performing varieties efficiently, and slow or stop the spread of pathogens and pests. Epidemics increasingly threaten crops around the world, endangering the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Responding to these challenges to food and economic security requires stakeholders to act quickly and decisively…
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Exploring yield growth to 2050: Updating yield growth parameters in IMPACT
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163704
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This tool has been developed under the auspices of the CGIAR Initiative on Foresight & Metrics. Its objective is to support the update of exogenous yield growth parameters to 2050 in the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). These exogenous yield growth parameters, commonly referred to as "Intrinsic…
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Assessing realized genetic gains in biofortified cassava breeding for over a decade: Enhanced nutritional value and agronomic performance
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155523
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Biofortified cassava ( Manihot esculenta ) plays a crucial role in enhancing the nutritional value of this essential staple, particularly in regions with limited dietary diversity and prevalent nutritional deficiencies. The cassava program at the International Center of Tropical Agriculture has dedicated over a decade to increase β‐carotene content in…
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Native and fermented waxy cassava starch as a novel gluten-free and clean label ingredient for baking and expanded product development
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128381
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Amylose-free and wild-type cassava starches were fermented for up to 30 days and oven- or sun-dried. The specific volume (ν) after baking was measured in native and fermented starches. The average ν (across treatments) for waxy starch was 3.5 times higher than that in wild-type starches (17.6 vs. 4.8 cm3 g−1). The best wild-type starch (obtained after…
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Udongo bora kwa kilimo
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/181359
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This is a live interview on the topic Udongo bora kwa kilimo (Healthy soils for agriculture) featured on Citizen TV Kenya's Gold a premier program on agriculture. The interview highlighted several aspects of soil health including causes and remedies to declining soil health in Kenya.
Publication year
2025
Authors
Waswa, Boaz Shaban
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Diohine's Atos: Landscape harmony built on rotational fallow practices
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/181365
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Document Outline
Trajectories of the Serer Agricultural System - We retrace the historical transformations of the agrosilvopastoral system: agricultural expansion, disappearance of fallow, climate effects, demographic dynamics, and agropastoral tensions.
Diohine: A Terroir Resisting the End of Fallow - We describe the functioning of rotating grazing, the knowledge mobilized, the solidarities that make it possible,…
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Updating yield growth rates in the IMPACT model to enhance global analysis of the future of agriculture
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178821
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Changes in yields of food commodities are key drivers—and consequences—of changes in agriculture and food systems. Simulation models used to explore the future of agriculture require initial assumptions about baseline levels and changes in yields as a starting point and then can be used to analyze how those yields are affected by the dynamic interaction between changes in demand, markets…
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Toolkit for exploring yield growth to 2050: Updating exogenous yield growth parameters in impact
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163499
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This toolkit is composed by guidelines, a manual, and example Power Point slides to update exogenous yield growth. The toolkit is expected to be used during the preparation and implementation of the expert consultations for review and updating of exogenous yield growth parameters to 2050 in the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) of the…
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What policymakers need to know: Steps to address challenges for banana, cassava, bean and rice production through 2050
Research examines the factors influencing these important crops' future performance, and makes recommendations for policymakers to ensure that banana, cassava, beans and rice continue to play a key role in global food security and agricultural economies through 2050.…
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Stephanie Speck
Global Director, Strategic Partnerships, Engagement & Communications and Trustee, Bioversity International UK
A self-described ‘stubborn optimist,’ Steph is a senior global leader with over 20 years’ experience shaping strategy, governance, and development outcomes across more than 25 countries. She began her career designing health and education communication initiatives for vulnerable communities before joining Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and AusAID, where she led humanitarian…
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Webinar: Exploring the role of artificial intelligence in landscape restoration and soil health in Ethiopia
The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and the Ethiopian Landscape Restoration Platform (ELaRP) organized a webinar on artificial intelligence (AI) and its application on soil health and landscape restoration on November 14, 2024. The event titled “The Concepts and Applications of AI for Landscape Restoration and…
