The Agribusiness for Trade Competitiveness Project (ATC-P), branded as Katalyst, is a pioneer market systems development project contributing to sustainable poverty reduction in Bangladesh. It is implemented by Swisscontact under the umbrella of the Ministry of Commerce, Government of Bangladesh. The project has been operating in Bangladesh since 2003 in three phases.
Esta obra se base en los conocimientos y las experiencias de un grupo de administradores y evaluadores de 12 organizaciones, tanto nacionales como internacionales, que llevaron a cabo una serie de estudios de evaluación en Bangadesh, Cuba, Ghana, Nicaragua, Filipinas y Vietnam.
The devastation caused in Philippines by Typhoon Reming was the trigger for the Government request to FAO for the project “Strengthening Capacities for Climate Risk Management and Disaster Preparedness in Selected Provinces of the Philippines (Bicol Region)”. This technical project summary report provides a consolidated overview about the specific project activities, the implementation processes, main findings and the establishment of institutional mechanisms that were established to promote ongoing collaboration between farmers, agriculture extension workers, researchers and local governme
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.
This report provides a synthesis of all findings and information generated through a “stocktaking” process that involved a desk study of Prolinnova documents and evaluation reports, a questionnaire to 40 staff members of international organizations in agricultural research and development (ARD), self-assessment by the Country Platforms (CPs) and backstopping visits to five CPs. In 2014, the Prolinnova network saw a need to re-strategise in a changing context, and started this process by reviewing the activities it had undertaken and assessing its own functioning.
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.
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.
El objetivo de esta investigación fue definir las cadenas de valor por producto agropecuario acorde con la integración entre los actores participantes (productor-centros científicos-decisores-servicios técnicos-población) en entidades productivas (EP) de las provincias de Matanzas y Villa Clara, insertadas en el Proyecto Internacional Coinnovación.
This paper, part of the Social Sciences Working Paper Series, presents studies undertaken by nine community-based, natural resource management (CBNRM)-oriented organizations in China, Viet Nam, the Philippines and Mongolia. The partner organizations, representing three broad types: academic, regional network, and community based, were brought together by a 2006 initiative in an informal network to develop and pilot methods for evaluating capacity development in community-based natural resource management.