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Learning Approaches for Supporting Soil Health in Malawi

This presentation focused on different learning approaches applied in Malawi to support soil health innovations: Lead Farmer Farmer Filed School Farmer Research Farmer Research Networks They share the following characteristics: Active involvement of farmers in the learning process Farmers are given responsibilities to facilitate learning Based on experiential learning Learning by doing Based on social […]

Source: Frank Tchuwa

Date: 11/26/2019

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

East & Southern Africa

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Cereal & Legume Flour Biscuit Preparation

This video, from November 2019, portrays the training of rural women on the preparation of biscuits with “Cereal+legume” flour. Four rural communes were represented: Mannè, Boussouma, Lebda, Korsimoro and Andintenga, and for each commune, two women, referred as “rural nutrition facilitators” participated. Please click here to view

Source: Dr. Hama Fatoumata

Date: 11/21/2019

Resource Type: Video

West Africa

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Theory of Change Guidance CCRP Sept 2019

This guidance document on Theories of Change is for the use of CCRP projects. A ToC is a product and a process where stakeholders develop, monitor,research,utilize,and evaluate theories. This enables learning by explaining mechanisms of how, why,and in what context an intervention achieves or contributes to impact.A Theory of Change (ToC) has three main objectives […]

Source: CCRP

Date: 9/27/2019

Resource Type: Instructional material

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Two Heads Film Better than One/ Dos Cabezas Filman Mejor que Una

Source: https://www.agroinsight.com/blog/?p=3400

Date: 9/15/2019

Resource Type: Video

Andes

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Practical Guidelines: Identification of Varietal Selection Criteria of the Farmers During Evaluation of Trials

Date: 9/15/2019

Resource Type: Instructional material

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Practical Guide: Harvest Procedure for Pearl Millet Trials Managed by Farmers

Date: 9/15/2019

Resource Type: Instructional material

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Co-learning Cycles to Support the Design of Innovative Farm Systems in Southern Mali

Farm systems were re-designed together with farmers during three years (2013–2015) in Southern Mali with the aim to improve income without compromising food self-sufficiency. A cyclical learning model with three steps was used: Step 1 was the co-design of a set of crop/livestock technical options, Step 2 the on-farm testing and appraisal of these options […]

Source: Gatien Falconnier et al.

Date: 9/3/2019

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

West Africa

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Risk Perception and Management Strategies in Southern Mali

Source: E. Huet , M. Adam, K.E. Giller, B. Traore, S. Coulibaly, K. Descheemaeker

Date: 8/20/2019

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

West Africa

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Traditional African Dishes Prepared from Local Biofortified Varieties of Pearl Millet: Acceptability and Potential Contribution to Iron and Zinc Intakes of Burkinabe Young Children

Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00115/full

Date: 8/14/2019

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

West Africa

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Pachagrama

Herramienta para el registro agroclimático por agricultores A presentation made to the FRN working group on the “Pachagrama”. This is a tool developed in the Bolivian altiplano for farmers to record agro-climatic information to develop local weather forecasts.

Source: CCRP

Date: 8/6/2019

Resource Type: Learning / story

Andes

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Lessons From Practice of the Groundswell Consortium AEI2

A presentation made to the FRN working group sharing lessons about mobilizing local knowledge in support of agroecological intensification. Read seven key insights from an FRN in Burkina Faso about mobilizing local knowledge in the support of agroecological intensification

Source: Peter Gubbels

Date: 8/6/2019

Resource Type: Learning / story

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NIH Study Record: Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project

NIH’s Study record for the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP)

Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Date: 8/1/2019

Resource Type: Website

East & Southern Africa

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Soil Health Tool Kit Manual

The soil health tool kit assembles simplified methods to assess soil health in the context of projects and networks working with smallholder farmers. The tool kit website describes the protocols for soil pH, permanganate-oxidizable soil carbon (POXC or active carbon), particulate organic matter (POM), soil aggregate stability, and soil available phosphorus. In the downloadable manual […]

Source: https://smallholder-sha.org/

Date: 8/1/2019

Resource Type: Program resource

East & Southern Africa

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Kit d’outils pour la santé des sols

Le kit pour la santé des sols rassemble des méthodes simplifiées pour évaluer la santé des sols dans le contexte de projets et de réseaux travaillant avec les petits agriculteurs. Le site Web du kit décrit les protocoles pour le pH du sol, le carbone du sol oxydable au permanganate (POXC ou carbone actif), la […]

Source: https://smallholder-sha.org/

Date: 8/1/2019

Resource Type: Instructional material

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Incidence and Severity of Common Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) Pests in Agroecological Zones and Farming Systems of Western Kenya

Source: https://doi.org/10.1080/00128325.2019.1599151

Date: 7/18/2019

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

East & Southern Africa

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P-efficient Common Bean Lines

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) lines developed through collaboration between the Roots Lab and the Mozambique Institute of Agricultural Research can absorb more phosphorus in low phosphorus soils.

Source: Johnathan Lynch, Roots Lab

Date: 7/3/2019

Resource Type: Video

East & Southern Africa

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Research Highlight: Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project

Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Science highlights the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project

Source: Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Science

Date: 6/13/2019

Resource Type: Website

East & Southern Africa

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“What do farmers want to record?”

The project has been using a checklist of principles of experimentation for the last 3 years. However the principle of ‘Keeping good records of what you do and what you see’ has proved difficult to get accepted. What information do farmers consider valuable to their decision making processes? What information are farmers interested in? (what […]

Source: Nuru Kipato & Daniel Nyambok

Date: 6/6/2019

Resource Type: Program resource

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Andes Community of Practice Website

The Andes Community of Practice Website is the region’s Spanish-language content sharing platform

Source: CCRP

Date: 6/5/2019

Resource Type: Website

Andes

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The Andes Community of Practice Geo Portal

The Andes Community of Practice geo-portal is the region’s Spanish-language GIS info sharing platform

Source: CCRP

Date: 6/5/2019

Resource Type: Website

Andes

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FRN-based Community Phytosanitation Initiative for the Control of Cassava Virus Diseases in Bukedea District, Eastern Uganda

A presentation made to the FRN working group about community-based phytosanitation to control cassava virus diseases in Uganda. The presentation examines increasing cassava productivity and incomes of fellow smallholder farmers in Teso sub-region through sustainable and inclusive access to improved farmer preferred virus cassavaseed.

Source: Norah Asiyo & Deogracious Opolot

Date: 5/28/2019

Resource Type: Learning / story

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Participatory Research Designs with and for Farmers

Farmer Research Network (FRN) through a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach for the Agroecology Transition (AT) in Chuquisaca –Bolivia. A presentation made to the FRN working group on a participatory action research process carried out in Bolivia with groups of farmers.

Source: Maria Yumbla

Date: 5/28/2019

Resource Type: Learning / story

Andes

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Climate Resilient Beans for Mozambique

In Mozambique, new improved varieties of beans are doubling or even tripling crop yields. Roots Lab video highlights the action.

Source: Johnathan Lynch, Roots Lab

Date: 5/16/2019

Resource Type: Video

East & Southern Africa

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McKnight International Program photobook

We all need access to nutritious food and sustainable ways to manage natural resources. See the people and places that contribute to creating a better world for present and future generations.

Source: McKnight Foundation

Date: 5/15/2019

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

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CCRP Infinity Loop

CCRP’s AEI-centered research funding, cross-cutting projects, convening, and support structures focus and accelerate the co-creation and sharing of AEI knowledge and solutions across local, regional, and global scales… helping smallholder farmers feed their world.

Source: CCRP

Date: 5/15/2019

Resource Type: Framework

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CCRP Principles

Guided by a series of principles, the CCRP works to ensure a world where all have access to nutritious food that is sustainably produced by local people. Download this resource to learn more.

Source: CCRP

Date: 5/15/2019

Resource Type: Program resource

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Advancing Together

Highlights from 10 years of work in the West Africa Community of Practice of The McKnight Foundation’s Collaborative Crop Research program.

Source: CCRP

Date: 5/15/2019

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

West Africa

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New Frontiers in Legume Research

A collection of case studies based on 10 years of research in Malawi, produced by the McKnight Collaborative Crop Research Program’s Southern Africa community of practice.

Source: CCRP

Date: 5/15/2019

Resource Type: Case study

East & Southern Africa

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