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AGRI (AGua para RIego)
In what context is this tool useful?
The award-winning AGRI reduces from months to just a few days the time needed to identify viable sources of water by providing useful information in order to make better decisions. AGRI identifies potential biophysical water diversion and harvesting sites, however it is up to the user to validate these in field and comply with local administrative, legal, social, and environmental regulations. AGRI covers site identification, their distance from…
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Agua de Honduras
In what context is this tool useful?
For the past decades, access to water resources has been one of the greatest challenges for economic and social development in some Central American countries, such as Honduras. Specifically, much of Western Honduras (the region where the platform was initially implemented) can be brutally dry, constraining most farmers to rainfed subsistence agriculture. With climate unpredictability, farmers and governments often lack the information needed to make the…
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Payments for Agrobiodiversity Conservation Services (PACS)
Incentives for farmers to conserve agricultural biodiversity for the public good
In what context is this tool useful?
PACS is useful where stakeholders are seeking options to manage genetic resources better.
Results achieved
Since 2010, PACS has:
• Worked with over…
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Terra-i +
In what context is this tool useful?
The tool helps operators and traders of key commodities, such as coffee and cocoa, to make informed decisions for managing deforestation risks within their supply chains. By aligning with carbon commitments and sustainability goals, the tool supports efforts to reduce global deforestation and lower carbon footprints.
Results achieved and expected
By 2030, Terra-i+ will have enabled…
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Supply Chain Risk Assessment and Management Toolkit
In what context is this tool useful?
The toolkit groups risks in three major areas:
These three areas are further disaggregated into Sub-Areas and Components. Each component is paired with one or more root causes that directly or indirectly influence the presence and magnitude of the risk exposure. The…
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Seasonal scenario planning for matching seed supply and demand: MS Excel decision support tool
In what context is this tool useful?
Seasonal scenario planning is useful not only to seed suppliers interested in meeting the demand for their existing products, but the principle of scenario planning could also be integrated into other parts of the seed sector, in particular breeding processes. A good understanding of seed demand under different seasonal scenarios could, for example, enable breeders to develop…
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Data-driven agronomy
In what context is this tool useful?
Data-driven agronomy is useful when government and growers’ associations need to make targeted recommendations to maximize their resources.
Results achieved
The Alliance Bioversity - CIAT has developed tools to improve the yields and decision-making of more than 100,000 farmers through the development of tools for the collection, analysis of data and dissemination of…
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Learning alliances: An approach for building multistakeholder innovation
In what context is this tool useful?
In a context where is a necessary to improve understanding of how to establish and maintain multi-stakeholder learning processes, since they can benefit the developing world in several ways. They help develop and share knowledge about approaches, methods and policies that work, those that do not, and the reasons for success or failure. These can also be linked to different geographical and cultural…
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LINK Methodology
In what context is this tool useful?
In general, this tool can be implemented in contexts where a participatory guide for inclusive business models with small farmers is required.
LINK has been implemented more than 80 times in different contexts, and the cases were carried out with farmer organizations from different levels of…
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Melisa chatbot
How to access the tool
At the moment, Melisa is available on Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger and Telegram. Users must search for Melissa on these platforms or add it as one of their contacts. Once it is in your contacts, you can talk to Melisa through the chat applications of these platforms.
Whatsapp: Add the number +57 310 418 6995 (wa.link/6d5dxh)
Telegram: Add Melisa chatbot
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/melisa.chatbot
In the future, the idea is that Melisa chatbot can be consulted in…
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AgLED Platform
In what context is this tool useful?
AgLED is intended to be a guide to climate change mitigation in agriculture and food systems for those new and old in the field of low-emissions development (LED).
The focus is on agricultural emissions and their mitigation, but the platform provide examples and resources of emissions and mitigation options related to activities connected with agriculture.
One of the biggest opportunities and challenges is in developing countries, where food security has…
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Cassava Flour investment project feasibility web tool
In what context is this tool useful?
This tool is useful in a context where smallholder cassava farmers and small-scale cassava processors need to apply cost-effective drying solutions such as flash drying and estimate the pre-feasibility of investment in cassava flour processing using flash drying technology.
The three countries (Colombia, D.R. Congo, Nigeria) that provided information to develop the tool represent three levels of…
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Tools for measuring the dry matter of fresh cassava roots
In what context is this tool useful?
This tool is useful for:
Researchers: practical for quick calculation of the dry matter parameter needed in cassava breeding processes.
Cassava producers: useful to control the quality of their crops.
Industry: The dry matter parameter…
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REMATTOOL-R: a smart tool for identifying superior maize genotypes from multienvironment yield trial
General Requirements for REMATTOOL
In what context is this tool useful?
This tool is useful in a context where breeders routinely evaluate many experimental hybrids that may be of different maturities. In maize (Zea mays L.), days to 50% anthesis and percent grain moisture content are used as proxies for relative maturity. The…
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Good Practice Guides Series for sustainable, participatory, and area-based research and development processes
In what context is this tool useful?
Where thousands are still struggling with gaps in knowledge about how to do business better, connect with markets and take advantage of the resources available in their territory to improve their livelihoods, this series of guides has much to contribute, especially as they are based on principles that are still relevant today…
