This document presents VOCATIONAL TRAINING and E-LEARNING organized by CIRAD and available in English. They are open to everyone seeking to acquire new skills or build capacities. The main categories of Vocational trainings are: Animal health and emerging diseases; Cell biology; Computer science; GIS and modeling; Cotton; Cultivated ecosystems; Economics and management of natural resources; Food safety and quality; Plant protection; Sugarcane; Support to research. The main categories of E-Learning trainings are Animal Health; Epidemiology; Humanities and Social Sciences; Information system, data collection and data management; Quality Assurance. The trainings can be realized on fixed dates or adapted to the demand in terms of dates, contents and location.
The paper aims to identify barriers to the development of Learning and Innovation Networks for sustainable agriculture (LINSA). In such networks, social learning processes take place, and knowledge about sustainable agriculture is co-produced by connecting between the different frames and...
Institutional innovations are critical for effective performance of agricultural research centres in natural resource management projects that often include multiple and diverse stakeholders with contrasting objectives and activities. This report shows how institutional histories of projects can be used as...
This brief analyzes the latest thinking on capacity development, summarizing the main
debates, successes and challenges identified in the key literature of the five years prior to the publication date (2013).
The study report is based on case studies from Bangladesh (Sulaiman, 2010), Bolivia (Pafumi and Ulloa, 2010), DR Congo (Mbaye, 2010) and Ghana (Adjei-Nsiah and Dormon, 2010) which were carried out with the purpose of assessing needs and gaps with...
This paper was prepared to present at the Farmer First Revisited: 20 Years On conference at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, December, 2007. Its focus is the challenge of strengthening agricultural innovation systems. The paper prefaces...