This flyer illustrates the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP), its work and publications.
Rice is one of the most important food crops in sub-Saharan Africa. Climate change, variability, and economic globalization threatens to disrupt rice value chains across the subcontinent, undermining their important role in economic development, food security, and poverty reduction. This paper maps existing research on the vulnerability of rice value chains, synthesizes the evidence and the risks posed by climate change and economic globalization, and discusses agriculture and rural development policies and their relevance for the vulnerability of rice value chains in sub-Saharan Africa.
The question of how agricultural research can best be used for developmental purposes is a topic of some debate in developmental circles. The idea that this is simply a question of better transfer of ideas from research to farmers has been largely discredited. Agricultural innovation is a process that takes a multitude of different forms, and, within this process, agricultural research and expertise are mobilised at different points in time for different purposes. This paper uses two key analytical principles in order to find how research is actually put into use.
The objective of this report is to assess the usefulness of providing guidance for scaling up good practices in core ARD business lines, and to test the prospects for doing so. The output of the document is a guide for a systematic discussion on scaling up of Competitive Grant Schemes (CGSs) for agricultural research and extension at key decision points during the life of an ARD project. This report addresses the other end of the state-of-practice spectrum - good practices and beyond.
La newsletter trae artículos a respecto del uso de las TIC en la Agricultura. Dentre ellos: Un futuro regional en construcción de Marcelo Bosch. Las TIC como herramienta para la superación de las asimetrías de Mônica Rodrigues. “El impacto de las TIC en la agricultura es enorme”, entrevista a Raúl Hopkins. Prioridades y políticas para el uso de las TIC en el sector agropecuario boliviano por Víctor Vásquez Mamani. “Poner las TIC al servicio de la administración y la gerencia retrasa su impacto en los clientes finales”, entrevista a Hugo Chavarría.
Las tecnologías de información y comunicaciones (TICS) contemplan toda forma de tecnología usada para crear, almacenar, intercambiar y procesar información en sus varias formas mientras que el extensionista es un promotor y gestor del desarrollo rural que favorece los procesos de desarrollo rural. El desarrollo de capacidades, es el proceso mediante el cual las personas, organizaciones y sociedades obtienen, fortalecen y mantienen las aptitudes necesarias para establecer y alcanzar sus propios objetivos de desarrollo a lo largo del tiempo.
These guidelines have been elaborated by the CDAIS project to organize policy consultations at national level. In particular, they can be used by project teams (e.g. project managers, facilitators, policy consultants) for the planning of national policy dialogue events to discuss policy related issues emerged during the local consultations at innovation partnership level and require attention of national policy makers.
The Action Planning is a tool that formalizes commitments and plots the route to their implementation. An action plan is intended for the use of the core actors, who will have been identified beforehand in the visioning phase. It determines who does what and when, and is therefore essential to ensuring that things get done and that the goals and visions set out in the capacity development strategy are achieved.
The capacity-focused problem tree pinpoints a core capacity issue, along with its causes and effects. It helps clarify the precise capacity-development objectives that the intervention aims to achieve. The focus should be on functional capacity, but room should be left to acknowledge technical capacity issues too.
This tool is a simple tool to map out the current status of the AIS, and to discover where the actors want to go. The rich picture tool can be used both to describe the current situation and to illustrate future plans. A rich picture opens up discussions and helps participants reach a broad and collective understanding of the situation.