လက်စ ွဲစာအုပ် မြစ်ရေတင်စီြံကိန််းြျာ်းတ င် ရေအသံု်းချသူအသင််းြျာ်း ဖ ွဲွဲ့စည််းတည်ရ ာင်မခင််း မြန်ြာနိုင်ငံ / A handbook...
CGIAR’s role in digital extension services
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CGIAR’s digital extension services bridge the gap between the development and the adoption of new climate change adaptation strategies. These services include new ways to disperse information on rainfed systems of agriculture, nutrition, pest control, new crop varieties, crop management practices, and more.
A global meta-analysis of climate services and decision-making in agriculture
Harmonizing the supply of climate information with the type of information needed by next-users is crucial for effective weather and climate services (CS). Understanding of information demand could help reshape supply side based CS that have dominated the field over the last few decades. Most CS have been developed using a ‘loading dock’ model, whe...
A new pathway for livelihood improvement and adaptation to climate change: growing vegetables in Hoima, Uganda. Final te...
The crowdsourcing vegetable pilot project was implemented in Hoima, Uganda, from March 2019 to the beginning of 2021, by East-West Seed Knowledge Transfer and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, in collaboration with the World Vegetable Centre and the National Agricultural Research Organisation of Uganda and notably the Bulindi Zonal...
End-of-Project report 'Broadening the scaling of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) management in East and Central Africa'
Project start and end date: Jan 2018 – Dec 2020 NCE for Rwanda to 31-03-2020 Project leader: Boudy van Schagen / Anne Rietveld Project lead organization: Bioversity International Partners: National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Rwanda Agricultural Board (RAB), Institut National po...
Towards large-scale decision support for farmers: site and season specific advice for maize agronomy in Malawi
In much of sub-Saharan Africa, national agricultural extension systems are severely constrained as extension worker: farmer ratio can be as high as 5000. A network of lead farmers complements the efforts of extension personnel. Regrettably, this combined effort falls far too short for effective dissemination of technologies to farmers. Interactive ...
Diversifying the sourcing and deploying methods to enhance the crop diversity
A Nepalese farmers of mountain and hill agro-ecosystem mostly grow landraces or traditional varieties of most of the crops. In some major crops like rice, wheat and maize, very old varieties are in cultivation. Insufficient research on minor crops and poor extension networks to disseminate new varieties of major crops are the major reasons to narro...
Participatory seed exchange (PSE): A community based mechanism for promoting access to seeds
Participatory Seed Exchange (PSE) is a low cost, simple and effective community-based mechanism for improving farmers' access to locally adapted seeds and planting materials which promotes farmer led on-farm conservation and utilization of the agrobiodiversity by exchanging available Agricultural Plant Genetic Resource (APGR) within the community (...
Farmer demand for clean planting material of biofortified and non-biofortified vegetatively propagated crop varieties: T...
Biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP), rich in beta carotene, is currently being promoted due to its role in fighting vitamin A deficiency. To promote farmer access to OFSP planting material (i.e., vines) projects establish vine multipliers who are expected to operate commercially. However, most sweetpotato farmers are used to getting vine...
Demand-led extension: a gender analysis of attendance and key crops
Purpose: The need to increase women’s access to extension has been extensively discussed. This paper assesses women’s access to extension services through the Plantwise extension approach as a baseline for future comparison of women’s access through other extension approaches. It also assesses whether crops that men and women farmers seek plant hea...
