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Innovation platforms for sustainable land management in East African landscapes: Stewardship, incentives, and challenges
This paper examines the potential role of innovation platforms (IPs) in facilitating the adoption and scaling up of Sustainable Land
Management (SLM) practices in East Africa, where land degradation has been a prime challenge ...
Communities of Practices - Creating and Sharing Knowledge
The Communities of Practice on the restoration of degraded lands aims to foster
relationships, develop learning situated in practice, create and share new knowledge to
restore degraded land, returning it to effective and ...
Power dynamics and representation in innovation platforms
Brief on Power dynamics and representation in innovation platforms
Food feed crops on demonstration plots. Report on MOREP project activities and results. In Dororo IP, Manica Province and Marara IP, Tete Province Central Mozambique (2012-2015)
The report summarizes results and feed back from participatory demonstration plots. The plots were implemented with 30 farmers in Tete and Manica each. The set up of demonstrations and priority crops were selected through ...
Variation in the straw traits of morphological fractions of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) and implications for selecting for food-feed varieties
Five varieties of faba beans, 4 improved and released variety and one local variety, were investigated for varietal variation in straw yield, nutritive value of straw morphological fractions and grain yield. Samples of the ...
Determinants of farmers’ decision on utilizing cereal and legume residue as feed and soil mulch in the Ethiopian highlands
Crop residues (CR) are dual purpose resources in mixed crop-livestock systems of the Ethiopian highlands. They serve as animal feed, income sources and inputs for soil and water conservation. However, multiple uses are two ...
Adoption of agricultural technologies visa vis agricultural extension in Ethiopia: Theoretical tenets and empirical evidences
The author explains different Adoption estimation methods, gives examples about Adoption levels on the field in Ethiopia, discusses Factors affecting adoption, compares Adoption and yield gaps and issues the Implications ...
Herbivore Dynamics and Range Contraction in Kajiado County Kenya: Climate and Land Use Changes, Population Pressures, Governance, Policy and Human-wildlife Conflicts
Wildlife populations are declining severely in many protected areas and unprotected pastoral areas of Africa.
Rapid large-scale land use changes, poaching, climate change, rising population pressures, governance, policy, ...
Caravan 31: Coping with climate change in dry areas
This issue of Caravan showcases some of ICARDA’s efforts of coping with climate change in dry areas with improved water land management and resilient production systems. These include initiatives in conservation agriculture ...
Policy-oriented Research in the CGIAR: Assessing the Impact
Building on an earlier exploratory study, in 2007–2008 the CGIAR’s Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) undertook an initiative in collaboration with seven CGIAR centers to augment the evidence of policy-oriented ...