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Innovation platforms as vehicle to strengthen stakeholders’ capacity to innovate for improved livelihoods in drylands in Asia and Sub Saharan Africa
Agriculture is the engine for poverty reduction and economic development in the developing nations. The sector employs over 50% of the population in South Asia (SA) and Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and contributes significantly ...
Farmers in Central Mozambique taste success using an Open Innovation Platform approach
The article reports on farmers feedback on what they have learned and changed in their production to market activities, and community cooperation, successes of IP activities, and required interventions to encourage and ...
Scaling Up Sustainable Land Management and Restoration of Degraded Land
With current rates of land degradation reaching
ten to twelve million ha per year, there is an
urgent need to scale up and out successful,
profitable and resource-efficient sustainable
land management practices to maintain ...
What do we mean by ‘women’s crops’? Commercialisation, gender, and the power to name
We explore the relationship between commercialisation and gender for groundnuts in Eastern Province, Zambia, using a mixed methods approach. Women saw themselves as having greater control over groundnuts than other crops, ...
Innovation Platform and Convergence
Innovation Platform meeting of stakeholders of CRP-DS project of Vijayapura centre was organized on 17th April, 2015. Pre-season planning interaction meetings with farmers, stakeholder institutions and stakeholder NGO was ...
Drylands and Mission Critical Research Areas for the CGIAR. A report to the CGIAR Fund Council from the Dryland Systems Task Force.
Drylands occupy 41% of global land surface and are inhabited by more than 2.5 billion people,
living mainly in developing countries with about 16% living in chronic poverty. Shockingly 42% of
children less than 5 years of ...
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Platform: Frequently Asked Questions
MEL (https://mel.cgiar.org/) is an online platform for organizations, programs and projects to plan, manage, monitor, evaluate, report and share their activities and results. By allowing all these actions to be completed ...
Modalities for Scaling up Sustainable Land Management and Restoration of Degraded Land
To tackle inter-connected global challenges of population growth and migration, climate change, biodiversity loss, and degrading land and water resources, changes in land use and management are needed at a global scale. ...
CRP-DS Innovation Platforms: Effective convergence for out-scaling and larger impacts
In the Dryland Systems CRP, one of the strategies is to establish the innovation platform (IP) for scaling-up the systems research to ensure impact on larger scale by providing holistic solutions. In this regard, an ...
Assessing the potential of dual-purpose maize in southern Africa: A multi-level approach
This paper explores the potential and challenges of increasing production of food and feed on existing maize fields in mixed crop-livestock systems in the semi-arid areas of southern Africa. It integrates results from ...