This training manual was developed for Africa RISING, a USAID funded research-for-development (R4D) program that recognizes gender mainstreaming as key for achieving its overall research and development objectives. The program is based on an integrated action research and farming-systems approach, and strives for gender transformation. A gender capacity assessment in 2015 identified a pronounced demand among Africa RISING scientists for training in gender analysis. As a first step towards addressing this need, an annotated bibliography with selected sources for self-learning was developed.
The Sourcebook is the outcome of joint planning, continued interest in gender and agriculture, and concerted efforts by the World Bank, FAO, and IFAD. The purpose of the Sourcebook is to act as a guide for practitioners and technical staff inaddressing gender issues and integrating gender-responsive actions in the design and implementation of agricultural projects and programs. It speaks not with gender specialists on how to improve their skills but rather reaches out to technical experts to guide them in thinking through how to integrate gender dimensions into their operations.
This brief discusses the benefits of innovation platforms in dealing with natural resource management issues.
This brief is part of the series of ‘practice briefs’ intended to help guide agricultural research practitioners who seek to support and implement innovation platforms. A contribution to the CGIAR Humidtropics research program, the development of the briefs was led by the International Livestock Research Institute; they draw on experiences of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, several CGIAR centres and partner organizations.
Successful cases of innovation invariably demonstrate a range of partnerships, alliances and network-like arrangements that connect together knowledge users, knowledge producers and others involved in enabling innovation in the market, policy and civil society arenas. With this comes the realisation that public agricultural research needs to strengthen links to a wider set of players from the private and civil society sectors and, of course, farmers themselves. Public agricultural extension services have traditionally played the role of linking farmers to technology.
This brief explores the evidence on the relationships between food aid transfers and investments in climate adaptive agriculture using data from Ethiopia, Malawi and United Republic of Tanzania. Four climate adaptive agricultural investments are considered, namely: adoption of cereal-legume intercropping, use of organic fertilizers such as manure and compost, construction of soil and water conservation structures in fields, and investments in livestock diversification.
TAP and its partners carried out regional surveys in Asia, Africa and Central America to assess priorities, capacities and needs in national agricultural innovation systems. This document provides a Regional synthesis report on capacity needs assessment for agricultural innovation in Africa. FARA was selected as Recipient Organization by FAO to facilitate TAP implementation in Africa. This is mainly due to its position as the umbrella organization bringing together and forming coalitions of major regional stakeholders in agricultural research and development.
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
Se realizó un estudio con el objetivo de identificar las brechas de formación en cuanto a la capacidad gerencial; la situación actual en instituciones, organizaciones y proyectos respecto a la determinación de la demanda de formación de capacidades en cultura y gestión empresarial en el marco agropecuario; así como los actores con posibilidades de asumir labores como promotores, facilitadores y formadores, que dieran respuesta a un programa de formación propuesto para los años 2015-2017.
Con el objetivo de reflexionar sobre criterios generales para la adopción y extensión de un modelo de producción lechera estacional en la provincia de Camagüey, se presentan consideraciones relativas a las posibilidades y potencialidades de la producción estacional de leche basada en las condiciones climáticas, características de los ecosistemas ganaderos y en el aprovechamiento más eficiente de los recursos disponibles.
El objetivo de esta investigación fue describir el procedimiento metodológico para el diseño de cadenas de valor de productos agropecuarios a escala local, obtenidos en 30 fincas seleccionadas de Matanzas y Villa Clara, que están insertadas en el proyecto internacional Coinnovación. Se aplicó la técnica de expertos y la de grupos multidisciplinarios, se efectuó el análisis del desempeño y de los factores críticos, y se utilizaron los mapas de procesos.