For planning and implementing activities to support agricultural research and development, it is key to be aware of and work with regional level actors, priorities and activities. The GCARD3 regional-level consultation events provide an opportunity to discuss and plan for better coordination with existing regional priorities and alignment processes. You are invited to participate in the online consultation for Africa, which is organized under three sub-themes, to ensure that agriculture research is aimed at addressing these priorities, with defined roles and partnerships at national, … [Read more...]
Lessons Learned Implementing Multi-Stakeholder Processes in Central Africa
The Great Lakes region of Central Africa is an area abundant in hills, people and conflicts. Its high altitude and cooler climate make it ideal for agriculture. But soils have been exhausted, spare land is no longer available, and farm households in parts of this region rank among the most food insecure and malnourished on earth. Years of civil conflict have moreover paralysed agricultural advisory and extension services and resulted in poor access to markets. Although there is unclarity about what type of solutions will be effective to address these problems, it is clear that developing, … [Read more...]
Getting Down to Business to Enhance Scaling of Innovation Platform Activities
Humidtropics uses Innovation Platforms (IPs) as one approach to achieve its agricultural research for development (R4D) objectives. IPs aim for innovations that can respond to site-specific constraints, through a process of participatory decision-making in which a variety of stakeholders collaborate. Stakeholders involved in the process are farmers, scientists and representatives from public and private sector. This far, IPs mostly concentrate on initiating the multi-stakeholder process, agreeing upon entry points for innovation and Natural Resource Management (NRM) experiments. Much less … [Read more...]
Institutionalizing Dialogue in Rwanda Through Innovation Platforms
A platform of farmers, retailers and service providers, civil society organisations, NGOs, government officials, and researchers improves livelihoods in Rwanda. Through interaction and collaboration, these groups experiment with various technological and institutional innovations, thereby tackling local agricultural challenges. This experience illustrates the importance of institutionalizing a space where knowledge can be co-created. The high altitude hills and cooler temperatures of the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa provide the ideal conditions for agriculture. However, … [Read more...]
Putting Nutrition Data to Work in the Community in Vietnam
In the third of her blog reports from Vietnam, Jessica Raneri, Nutrition Programme Specialist, Bioversity International, explains some of the emerging findings from research in the Mai Son district in Son La Province to assess local food biodiversity and identify opportunities for improving diet quality and diversity. In my last blog, I reported on collecting baseline data from 400 households in four rural and farming communes of Mai Son district in Son La Province. This stage was to identify the current availability, access and use of agricultural biodiversity, nutrition knowledge and … [Read more...]
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