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Choix des conditions de culture cibles pour la sélection de nouvelles variétés

Date: 4/15/2016

Resource Type: Instructional material

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Evaluation ouverte

Date: 3/15/2016

Resource Type: Instructional material

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Waking the Sleeping Giant: Agricultural intensification, extensification or stagnation in Mali’s Guinea Savannah

The World Bank argued that West Africa’s Guinea Savannah zone forms part of “Africa’s Sleeping Giant,” where increases in agricultural production could be an engine of economic growth, through expansion of cultivated land in sparsely populated areas. The district of Bougouni, in southern Mali, falls within this zone. We used multiple data sources including a […]

Source: Mary Ollenburger et al.

Date: 11/14/2015

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

West Africa

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GIMEM 3 Technical Report

The McKnight foundation funded $US 798 600 for activities over a four-year period for the former WAf CoP GIMEM project. The new project aims to develop parasitoid industry for controlling the millet head worm (MHW) in the Sahel.

Source: Sustainable large-scale biological control of the Millet Head Worm in the Sahel

Date: 10/20/2015

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

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Pest Management: Yanapai Agrobiodiversity Project 2005-2015

Date: 10/1/2015

Resource Type: Mini case study

Andes

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Unravelling the causes of variability in crop yields and treatment responses for better tailoring of options for sustainable intensification in southern Mali

Options that contribute to sustainable intensification offer an avenue to improve crop yields and farmers’ livelihoods. However, insufficient knowledge on the performance of various options in the context of smallholder farm systems impedes local adaptation and adoption. Therefore, together with farmers in southern Mali we tested a range of options for sustainable intensification including intensification […]

Source: Gatien Falconnier et al.

Date: 9/16/2015

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

West Africa

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Understanding farm trajectories and development pathways: Two decades of change in southern Mali

Institutional support for smallholders has been the motor for the expanding cotton production sector in southern Mali since the 1970s. Smallholder farms exhibit diverse resource endowments and little is known on how they benefit from and cope with changes in this institutional support. In this paper we explore farm trajectories during two decades (1994 to […]

Source: Gatien Falconnier et al.

Date: 9/15/2015

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

West Africa

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Principles of experimentation that farmers need to understand

Date: 9/11/2015

Resource Type: Instructional material

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Innovations in Seed Systems

Lessons from the CCRP-funded project “Sustaining Farmer-Managed Seed Initiatives in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso

Source: Anja Christinck, Marthe Diarra, and Gottfried Horneber

Date: 11/4/2014

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

West Africa

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WAf Seed Systems Case Study – English Version

The case highlights the complexity of issues and actors across the whole of a “seed system.” Throughout the seed value chain, a multitude of opportunities exist for thoughtful funding in research and development to improve the performance of the overall system.

Source: Anja Christinck, Marthe Diarra, and Gottfried Horneber

Date: 11/1/2014

Resource Type: Case study

West Africa

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The Influence and Added Value of the CCRP in the Andes

The purpose of evaluation was to consolidate evidence and learning about the changes to which the CCRP and McKnight have contributed through the grantees they support. From this evaluation, invested parties can understand the added value of the CCRP and the CoP approach for grantees, how it promotes individual as well as institutional change, and […]

Source: Kaia Ambrose

Date: 6/3/2014

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

Andes

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Collaborative Crop Research in Action: Andean Grains Research & Development

A study of the McKnight Foundation’s Support for Andean Grains Research and Development in Bolivia and Ecuador In 2012 the Collaborative Crop Research Program of the McKnight Foundation decided to undertake a series of case studies to better understand the impact and lessons of their interventions and those of selected grantees over the years. The […]

Source: Douglas Horton

Date: 5/19/2014

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

Andes

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Transforming research and development practice to support Agroecological Intensification

Source: Journal of International Affairs

Date: 5/15/2014

Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

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Integrated Management of Bacterial Wilt of Enset in Ethiopia

Enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Chessman is a perennial, herbaceous and monocarpic crop belonging to the family Musaceae. Enset is an orphan and little researched food crop cultivated only in Ethiopia. The project was initiated with the overall objective of improving food security, income and livelihood of enset farmers through integrated enset bacterial wilt management and […]

Source: Southern Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) in Ethiopia, Hawassa University, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Southern Nation Nationalities People’s Regional State Bureau of Agriculture in Ethiopia

Date: 10/1/2013

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

East & Southern Africa

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Studentships

Since 1997 CCRP funded projects have worked with approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate agriculture research and development students around the world. In 2013 IMEP organized a survey that addressed some of the leadership team’s evaluation questions about CCRP’s work with undergrad and graduate students.The survey instrument was finalized and delivered via email to 164 students. […]

Source: Claire Nicklin

Date: 6/5/2013

Resource Type: Case study

Andes

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