Items in the category "GCARD2themeP"
[Document] The Wheat Initiative1 aims to encourage and support the development of a vibrant global wheat public-private research community sharing resources, capabilities, data and ideas to improve wheat productivity, quality and sustainable production around the world.
[Document] Many are now urging greater attention to farm-to-fork value chains and how smallholder benefits generated bythose chains can be increased. This change in perspective has far-reaching consequences both for R4D priorities and for partnerships. In this Briefing Paper we utilize ICRISAT’s...
[Document] The farmers, fishers and herders who live on less than US$1.25 per day live complex, highly adaptive lives where individual technical solutions in and of themselves have limited impact. Recognizing this complexity and the importance of working with stakeholders to understand and design solutions...
[Document] The problems being addressed in this session are related to ensuring global food and nutrition security, as well as promoting resilience in production systems and delivering ecosystem services through agricultural biodiversity. Whole landscape management approaches embody biodiversity management,...
[Document] The current and future food security of South Asian countries has twin challenges of resource fatigue and decelerating productivity growth of food grain crops. Realizing the importance of these issues not only at national level but also at regional level, the regional NARS (Bangladesh, India,...
[Document] Agricultural research and development (AR4D) systems are basic to finding the long-term solutions to the sources and motors of recurrent crises. AR4D in post-conflict and protracted crises countries invariably suffers from poor research infrastructure and financial means, high staff turnover and...
[Document] There is a need for strong farmer organizations that can present and represent the interests of smallholders versus more powerful economic groupings in society. However, farmers’ organizations often lack access to the information and evidence needed to develop pro-active proposals to...
[Document] Communities worldwide have begun adopting integrated landscape management approaches that work deliberately to support food production, ecosystem conservation and rural livelihoods across landscapes mosaics. While researchers working on landscape and ecosystem processes fully recognize the...
[Document] The objective is to identify specific interventions that can improve RPOs’ capacities. While recognizing other determinants of success our innovation will be to examine ways to affect RPOs’ performance on input and output markets, through enhanced commitment of members. Broadly...
[Document] The Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) – with over 900 partners from among international research institutes, national academia, development agencies and donors, extension services, private sector, NGOs and civil societies - develops new rice varieties with increased yield potential,...
[Document] AIRCA will bring an integrated and holistic approach to solving development problems at a landscape scale through the mobilisation of nine agricultural R&D centres with a wealth of expertise across a range of ecosystem types and crops. AIRCA’s members have a demonstrated ability to...
[Document] The adaptation and adoption of conservation agriculture (CA)-based crop management through innovative techniques like reduced soil movement, adequate surface retention of crop residues and economically viable and diversified crop rotations are the way forward to address the emerging challenges...
[Document] New organizational arrangements which place the user of research central in the definition of research priorities and in uptake processes are required. This includes a central role for organizations which represent the interests of the smallholders in particular farmer organizations but also for...
[Document] In the region of central Asia and Caucasus (CAC), collection, assessment and sharing of information on water and land resources, previously under central command of the Soviet Union, have been fragmented during the past decades. In fact, the regional program has supplemented an important role in...
[Document] The CGIAR Research Program No. 6: Forests, Trees and Agroforestry: Livelihoods, Landscapes and Governance (CRP6), brings together four of the world’s leading research centers in their respective subjects: the World Agroforestry Centre, CIFOR, CIAT and Bioversity International —...
[Document] HKI’s food-based models integrate nutrition, agriculture and health sectors at the community and household levels. Working with local NGOs and local government partners, we establish community-based extension services (demonstration farms and farmers) to reach underserved poor and extreme-poor...
[Document] The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is an initiative that works across African countries to improve the productivity and sustainable production of smallholder farmers, the majority of who are women. AGRA strives to effect change across the entire agriculture value chain through...
[Document] Action Contre la Faim (ACF) – a Nutrition Security Approach to tackle under-nutrition (malnutrition?) Lessons from the field, way forward and research needs
[Document] The MAIZE Research Program (CRP) is a CGIAR global alliance bringing together CIMMYT, IITA and more than 300 institutions (NARES, advanced research institutions, NGOs, CBOs etc.). It aims at ensuring that public-funded international agricultural research helps to sustainably intensify maize-based...
[Document] The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish and the role of development partners: The overall rationale, assumptions and approach adopted by the program will be described, and the specific role that we expect development partners to play in achieving its objectives.
[Document] The Water, Land and Ecosystems Program addresses the dangers facing development in a world of finite resources. Its goals are: sustainable intensification; to improve the sharing of benefits and risks on which our future depends; to support the political discourse that underpins a long-term,...
[Document] While the research agenda is growing, there remains limited concrete evidence on how agriculture–nutrition linkages work. A mapping exercise has been completed by DFID/LCIRAH outlining the research gaps. However more nutrition-relevant data from agricultural interventions needs to be generated,...
[Document] We need to establish common interlinked platforms at global, regional and national levels for coherent dialogue and policy action, supported by research, related to climate change, agriculture, forestry, crisis response and food security. This session explores the nexus between climate change,...
[Document] Looking for quality improvement of No Till system at the farmer level as a goal, FEBRAPDP and ITAIPU BINACIONAL developed a participatory methodology for assessing the quality of the Conservation Agriculture in the Paraná 3 basin.
[Document] The tripartite call for proposals Africa/Brazil/France “Fight against desertification in Africa” has been launched and about ten research projects will be supported in 2013. The targeted geographic regions are the African arid and semi-arid regions, especially the areas covered by the Great Green...
