On October 22, Humidtropics' Central America and Caribbean Flagship team conducted a Field Day for the release of the Final Report of the Quesungual + Forages Project, alongside the Nicaraguan Institute for Agricultural Technology (INTA) and representatives of research centers, public sector, and national and regional extension workers. The event created a valuable exchange between 172 men and women farmers, government representatives, NGOs, technicians and researchers from Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and was conducted in the community of Potrerillo, located 15 km from … [Read more...]
Finding Common Development Goals in Nicaragua
With the objective of gaining a deeper understanding of the current activities and future directions of organizations working in the Nicanorte Action Site within the Central America and the Caribbean Flagship Project, Humidtropics has finalized its Nicanorte Organizational Analysis. The analysis was conducted with 20 organizations including national civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), farmer organizations, universities and university research institutes, and the public and private sectors. Aside from assisting in the Program's regional strategic and … [Read more...]
Participatory Diagnostic Tool for Complex Agricultural Problems
Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Innovation Systems (RAAIS) is a participatory, diagnostic tool for integrated analysis of complex agricultural problems and capacity to innovate. RAAIS facilitates the analysis of interactions between: (1) different dimensions, levels and stakeholder dynamics of complex agricultural problems, (2) innovation capacity in the agricultural system, and (3) the existence and performance of the agricultural innovation support system. RAAIS has been developed and tested to identify and analyze opportunities for dealing with parasitic weeds in rainfed rice production in … [Read more...]
Rooting Learning Journeys in the Territories of Central America
In 2013, Humidtropics initiated the situation analysis of the Nicanorte Action Site (in Spanish). CIAT and Bioversity International, with the help of local consultants, processed available data regarding human development, natural resource management, production systems, and markets to generate outputs about the current state of affairs in the form of maps. At the same time, short interviews with key organizations generated an assessment of the dynamics of the local innovation process. A collective analysis of the processed information resulted in the convergence of stakeholder interests with … [Read more...]
A Decision-Making Tool to Efficiently Manage Smallholder Farms
Smallholder farms, all over the world, have diverse activities and a highly variable management capacity. In the last few decades, across Central America, partner organizations, national research institutes and CGIAR Centers have developed, tested and implemented many tools to help smallholders improve their decisions regarding various aspects of crop and livestock management. However, to date the tools remain dispersed and have not been integrated in a user-friendly way for routine use of diversified smallholder farms with multiple cropping/livestock activities. During the recent … [Read more...]
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