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How to measure impact of short-term interventions with participatory systems research approaches?
Participatory focus group discussion can be used to jointly analyse systems drivers, trade-off
calculation of different human agents in the system and depict feedback loops in the system. The
author created these participatory ...
Agricultural livelihood systems (ALS) typology for coping with socio-ecological diversity in ALS transition research: A demonstrative case in Pontieba, south-western Burkina Faso
Smallholder farms’ populations are characterized by their heterogeneity giving the diversity of farms’ livelihood settings. Integrated farming system modelling therefore requires a preliminary clear identification of the ...
Gender Perspectives on the Dynamics of Lentil and Chickpea Production: the Case of Gimbichu and Minjar-Shenkora Districts, Ethiopia
Ethiopia has different agro-ecologies conducive for producing different crops. The country is the home of different pulse grain production and it was increased between 2000-2012 (Vincent and Jason 2013). Twelve pulse types ...
Participatory Systems Analysis: Why invest women less in agriculture and agro-business than men
A newly tested approach to participtory systems analysis is presented, which has been used to analyse why women invest less in agriculture and agro-business than men in Eastern Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda)
Research study on youth and agriculture in the Drylands CRP
The document presents the research planned on youth in rural areas for the CRP on Dryland Systems in Morocco.
Sustainable Intensification: Concept Revisited, Research Challenges, and New Methodologies from Modern Systems Science Perspective
This presentation revisits the concept of sustainable intensification from modern systems science perspectives (human-environmental system, social-ecological resilience, complex adaptive systems, transformation and ...
Youth and Agricutural Research for Development (AR4D)
The policy brief presents findings and recommendation following the CGIAR Youth Research carried out in Morocco during the period 2015-2016.
Program Theory of change and Impact Pathway - Last Update 2015
A theory of change (ToC) describes how a research-in-development project or program induces expected outcomes and impacts by describing the causal interrelationships from the project/program’s activities to outputs, outcomes ...
Youth Strategy
Dryland Systems’ Youth Strategy aims to:
Promote a transformative environment – through innovations and capacity strengthening;
Provide a framework for policymaker engagement - assisting with the formulation of ...
Human agent’s typology and its role
This non-exhausted manual defines type, typology and the role of functional types of human agents in agricultural transitional research. It also lays out common methods for defining human agent's types. The key messages ...