The Nile Basin Development Challenge (Nile BDC) is funded by the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF) to improve the resilience of rural livelihoods in the Ethiopian highlands through a landscape approach to rainwater management. The first project of the Program reviewed past research and development experiences with sustainable land and water management in Ethiopia. This brief summarizes key points from the study, which approached the subject from a broadly historical perspective, tracing changes in policies and strategies from the 1970s to the present.
The Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) program, supported by the United States Agency for International Development, aims to create opportunities for smallholder farm households to move out of hunger and poverty through sustainably intensified farming systems that improve food, nutrition, and income security, particularly for women and children, and conserve or enhance the natural resource base.
This innovation story narrates the experience of Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) project on innovative banana value chain development in Metema district, Amhara, Ethiopia. The project introduced banana production systems in the district for the first time in 2005. IPMS together with the stakeholders provided support along the banana value chain on production, in put supply and marketing.
This film describes the role of capacity development in accelerating adoption of new technologies and innovations in the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics.
Improved Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers is a five‐year project funded by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and being implemented by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). The project focuses on the development of new approaches and processes for: development of market oriented agriculture emphasizing marketable commodities; knowledge management; and innovation capacity development.
This poster shows the ILRI and CGIAR activities to enhance Capacity development in the year of 2018
El presente documento sistematiza la experiencia de cuatro instituciones promotoras del desarrollo rural en el Perú, específicamente en lo que se refiere a casos exitosos de intervención para el fortalecimiento de la asociatividad empresarial rural y la promoción de cadenas de valor.
La Guía para la Promoción de la Asociatividad Empresarial Rural es un instrumento metodológico que tiene como objetivo orientar procesos de diseño, planificación, facilitación, asistencia técnica, monitoreo, evaluación y sistematización de intervenciones que contribuyan a fortalecer las capacidades asociativas y empresariales de pequeños y medianos productores, bajo un enfoque de mercado, cadenas productivas y desarrollo sostenible territorial
En este documento dos modelos asociativos, cooperativa y asociaciones de productores, son examinados con la finalidad de recoger las fortalezas, debilidades, oportunidades, amenazas, factores de éxito y lecciones aprendidas que resultan del análisis de la estructura, modelo de gerencia, cadena de valor, alianzas, estrategias socioempresariales, de cuatro organizaciones agroempresariales rurales, cuya experiencia ha llamado la atención y ha sido objeto de seguimiento por parte de diferentes instituciones nacionales e internacionales promotoras del de desarrollo rural, como referente de éxito
The issue 1 of the 2020 Capacity Development Newsletter of the International Livestock Research Institute, brings the news regarding short training courses, research and travel grants, fellowships and scholarships as well as all capacity development oportunities lead by the Institute.