This synthesis report presents the outputs of the workshop organised by CTA at its headquarters in Wageningen, The Netherlands, 15-17 July 2008. The outputs are presented in two main parts, each corresponding to one of the workshop objectives, and ends with a section on the way forward as suggested by the workshop participants. It also includes a first attempt to come to a consolidated generic framework on AIS performance indicators, based on the outputs of the different working groups.
LenCD has prepared a joint statement on results and capacity development (presented in this publication), which stresses that meaningful, sustainable results are premised on proper investments in capacity development and that these results materialize at different levels and at different times, along countries’ development trajectory. To provide evidence in support of this statement, LenCD launched a call for submission of stories.
A new generation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is finding a small foothold among poor, small-scale farmers in developing countries. Even so, many barriers still prevent poor rural people from accessing, using, and benefiting from new ICT tools and platforms, and those barriers are arguably higher for rural women. The relationship between gender and agriculture has been studied intensively over the years, and many agricultural interventions now include gender as a crosscutting issue or mainstream gender throughout their operations.
The Bureau for Food Security (BFS) of USAID commissioned five country studies examining the scaling up of agricultural innovations through commercial pathways in developing countries, to understand how the Agency – including its country missions and implementing partners (IPs) – can use donor projects to achieve greater scale and long-term commercial sustainability.
The Scaling Agricultural Innovations Workshop gathered scaling experts from a range of organizations and agriculture sectors to share their experiences and ideas on the findings and lessons learned from five case studies (hybrid maize in Zambia, irrigated rice in Senegal, Purdue Improved Crop Storage bags in Kenya, agricultural machinery services in Bangladesh, and Kuroiler chickens in Uganda).
This report describes eight relevant innovation projects caried out in Zambia.
This book documents a unique series of 19 case studies where agricultural biotechnologies were used to serve the needs of smallholders in developing countries. They cover different regions, production systems, species and underlying socio-economic conditions in the crop (seven case studies), livestock (seven) and aquaculture/fisheries (five) sectors. Most of the case studies involve a single crop, livestock or fish species and a single biotechnology.
Desde finales de la década de los ochenta, la humanidad experimenta la ruptura de muchos de los modelos, enfoques y paradigmas que hasta entonces habían guiado los procesos de desarrollo, los que abarcan las dimensiones social, económica, ambiental, tecnológica y política. La globalización y la revolución de la informática y las telecomunicaciones, entre otras, han provocado incertidumbre y complejidad para analizar los fenómenos y procesos que inciden en el desarrollo.
Este estudio se realizó en la Estación Experimental de Pastos y Forrajes Indio Hatuey con el objetivo de evaluar algunos indicadores clave, como la intensidad innovadora (IIE), la capacidad tecnológica (CTE) y el nivel de excelencia (NEE) del equipo técnico vinculado a las tecnologías de construcción y puesta en marcha de biodigestores
El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar, a través de un estudio de caso, la utilidad de incorporar en la práctica de los proyectos la definición y evaluación participativa de las metas, para conocer las percepciones de la diversidad de actores que conforman los espacios locales, identificar posibles alianzas y armonizar intereses y resultados esperados en las estrategias de desarrollo con enfoque de género