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Making Sense of Intergenerational Aspirations in Agrarian Households and Their Implications for Technology Adoption: Evidence from Kenya
In sub-Saharan Africa, rural development and poverty alleviation has been the primary focus of several policy agendas put forth by universities, government agencies, research institutions and non-governmental organizations. ...
Guidelines for Facilitating Women’s adoption of Improved Cereal Varieties in Sex-segregated Cultures
Women in the Global South play significant roles in farming but face inequalities in access to resources, land and extension support (3,4,5). Their roles in farming cereals, often perceived as male crops, are especially ...
Leveraging farmer household aspirations to target and scale agricultural innovations - an approach built on novel partnerships and methods
This online report presents progress on an approach built on novel partnerships and methods to leverage farmer household aspirations.
GIS-Based multi-criteria land suitability mapping for scaling faba bean varieties in Ethiopia
Successful scaling of agricultural technology requires a spatial explicit framework for targeting the right variety at the right place. This entails a multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) approach, using a set of determining ...
Study shows consumer acceptance to diversify staples with smart foods
A study in Tanzania and Myanmar analyzed consumer acceptance of pigeonpea, millets and sorghum in a variety of forms in both rural and urban markets. The crops were trialed to diversify staples to improve nutrition and ...
Preliminary Gendered Analysis of Household Survey Conducted in the Lentil-Chickpea Zones of North-Shewa Amhara Region
Preliminary Gendered Analysis of Household Survey Conducted in the Lentil-Chickpea Zones of North-Shewa Amhara Region.
A Gender Analysis of the Challenges to adoption of improved lentil and chickpea varieties in Eth
Timely availability of information, inputs and credit are key to sustainable adoption of improved agricultural practices. While there are advantages in using different technology dissemination strategies to reach different ...
Pre-emptive chickpea pre-breeding for biotic stresses and germplasm enhancement for abiotic stresses 2018 Progress Report (IP Register)
This annual report presents progress in terms of registering IP and genotyping data (DArT and SNP) for several genotypes identified for biotic and abiotic stress to salinity in 2016.
Yield gaps, adoption and seed commercial behaviour: Implications for chickpea seed system in Ethiopia
The paper presents the yield gaps, adoption of improved varieties and the commercial behaviour in seed of smallholder chickpea producers based on the primary data collected from 612 randomly selected farmers covering 36 ...
Variety release by NARIS partner institutions from germplasm under development originated from ICARDA in 2019
List of varieties released by NARIs partner institutions from germplasm under development originated from ICARDA in 2019