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Landscape Planning and Management tool (LAPMAT)
In what context is this tool useful?
In a context where land and water degradation due to on-site soil/nutrient loss and off-site pollution/sedimentation are serious environmental problems. This can be aggravated due to the absence of reliable data at appropriate resolution and differences in the methods used, what it generates discrepancies in soil erosion estimates at both continental and basin levels.…
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Mainstreaming Biodiversity Toolkit
In what context is this tool useful?
This toolkit is useful for researchers, practitioners and policymakers who are seeking to connect their biodiversity to healthy and nutritious diets and to sustainable food systems.
Results achieved
The practices and methods outlined in the mainstream toolkit have been implemented in Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Turkey to great effect. Example activities…
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Mapping Ecosystem Services to Human well-being - MESH
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In what context is this tool useful?
MESH is applicable at the landscape level (e.g. basin, community, national) anywhere in the world using freely available global datasets or higher resolution local ones if they are available.
This tool can help researchers and policy makers manage the complexity of today’s global challenges, food security, environmental sustainability,…
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Ushauri: hotline and online platform for smallholder farmers
In what context is this tool useful?
'Ushauri' is key in a context where extension agents have a heavy workload. Many farmers ask similar questions, for example, about land preparation or seed selection, so a well-recorded answer can be sent from the online platform to any number of farmers.
Advisor-farmer communication through voice messages can increase the efficiency of advisory services, allowing extension staff to answer a higher number of…
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Agrobiodiversity Index
Despite its importance, little is known about the current state of agrobiodiversity (the wealth of plants, animals and microorganisms used for food and agriculture) across the world. As a result, it is often left out of dietary guidelines, agricultural and environmental policies, business strategies, and other areas…
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ClimMob
What does ClimMob do?
In what context is this tool useful?
ClimMob is useful in participatory agricultural research where farmers test technologies on their own farms. The expected outcome is reliable, farmer-driven data that informs better agricultural decisions and supports scalable innovation.
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The…
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Community Seedbank Training: Handbooks for Facilitators and Farmers
In what context is this tool useful?
This handbook is intended for people working directly with women and men farmers, who are motivated to set up a community seedbank or who want to strengthen the operations of a community seedbank that already exists. They may be NGO staff, researchers, plant genetic resource center (genebank) employees, or government extension agents who want to become more knowledgeable about the concept and practice of…
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Crop Ontology
In what context is this tool useful?
The Crop Ontology, in combination with the crop trait dictionaries, provides a tool to foster phenotypic and genotypic data curation and annotation by the communities of practice (CoP) of several crops using validated common trait names, particularly breeders' traits, protocols, and scales.
This facilitates direct annotation of breeders' data captured in the field and enables the integration of phenotypic and genetic data sets. It helps breeders,…
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Diversity assessment tool for agrobiodiversity and resilience (DATAR)
In what context is this tool useful?
The DATAR tool allows local, national and international development organizations to integrate intra-specific diversity into their decision-making plans. The tool is useful for national programs wanting to determine when and where there is sufficient crop variety and animal breed diversity available for farmers to meet their environmental and socio-economic demands and improve their production landscapes…
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E-Learning Course on Mainstreaming Biodiversity
In what context is this tool useful?
This tool is useful in contexts where policy makers, researchers, university professors, graduate or undergraduate students, nutritionists, extension workers or other professionals are interested in strengthening their capacities in biodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture, nutrition and socio-economic development.
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Evaluating Land Management Options (ELMO)
In what context is this tool useful?
The tool is primarily targeted at researchers, who may use the tool to identify ways of changing the economic conditions and circumstances that cause farmers to degrade land in the first place and instead set in place the opportunities and reward systems which will make sustainable land management a more viable, desirable, and profitable option at the local level.
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FarmDESIGN
In what context is this tool useful?
FarmDESIGN is useful where users want to help smallholder farmers to meet many simultaneous needs. Smallholders, despite their contribution to food production, are nutritionally vulnerable and score poorly on health indicators related to nutrition and dietary diversity. The paradox that these smallholders play a vital role in global food provisioning while simultaneously falling short of meeting their own nutritional needs grounds the argument that these…
