The Livestock and Irrigation Value Chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) project is funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada. The LIVES capacity development pillar seeks to strengthen innovation and the learning capacity of value chain actors and service providers to develop livestock and irrigation agriculture value chains. Using participatory processes to assess knowledge and skills gaps of value chain actors and service providers, it identifies capacity development interventions. Project staff then design and implement these interventions
The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world. This project analyzed the current gender capacities against desired future gender capacities of the Livestock and Fish partners and subsequently designed tailor-made capacity development interventions.
This guide is developed by synthesizing successful field experiences within a project known as Improving Productivity & Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers Project or IPMS Project. The main purpose of the IPMS project was to test methods, approaches, and processes that can help transform Ethiopian smallholder agriculture from subsistence to a market‐oriented agriculture.
Over the past decades, Brazilian agriculture has played an important role in the international market, in response to growing global demand for products, services and food security. This achievement was in a large extent powered by the ability to generate knowledge and the actions promoted by science and technology institutes.
This review is an information resource for development practitioners, development agencies and funders of development activities who have an interest in assessing capacity for agricultural innovation in developing countries, including the developing regions of sub-Saharan Africa. In the context that further investment in the agricultural capacity of developing countries is recognised as a development priority, the review explores what is known about the “tools” (i.e. concepts and methods) which are available to guide assessment of innovation capacity in these countries.
Cette présentation PowerPoint présentée par Magdalena Blum (à l'Atelier sur le Conseil orienté vers le marché Dakar, Sénégal, 22-24 octobre 2012) se concentre sur les sujets suivants:
- Nouveau concept du conseil agricole et rural
- Nouveaux rôles des conseillers
- Les caractéristiques des systèmes de conseil agricole et rurale
Esta presentación muestra una solución sostenible para los pequeños productores y las familias rurales, particularmente por medio de nuevas tecnologías.
Este folleto explica que es el hub: la infraestructura fisica del hub consiste en un sistema de investigación (plataformas de investigación), implementación (módulos demostrativos) y difusión (áreas de extensión). Esta infraestructura forma la base para la construcción de una red de actores de la cadena agrícola - agricultores, técnicos, científicos, centros de investigación, iniciativa privada, prensa y funcionarios públicos, entre otros- hacia el objetivo en común, innovación en el sistema de producción para llegar a un sistema más sustentable, productivo y rentable.
La presentación explica los sistemas de innovación y las redes para la intensificación sustentable. Ésta trata también del modelo del hub.
Este estudio analizó la evolución de una red de innovación entre productores de hule natural durante tres periodos de observación (dos olas o tres años), y evaluó cómo los productores reaccionan a diferentes innovaciones en un momento dado. Las prácticas de innovación fueron agrupadas en tres actividades: control de plagas y enfermedades, establecimiento y manejo de plantaciones, y manejo de cosecha y poscosecha.