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.
This report summarizes the findings of the study on Competitive Commercial Agriculture for Africa (CCAA). The objective of the CCAA study was to explore the feasibility of restoring international competitiveness and growth in African agriculture through the identification of products and production systems that can underpin rapid development of a competitive commercial agriculture.
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Grain Legumes (Legume Innovation Lab; LIL), supports ten multi-disciplinary collaborative research and institutional capacity strengthening subcontracted projects working in 13 Feed the Future countries in Africa and Central America and the Caribbean involving scientists at 10 US universities, 3 USDA/ARS research centers, and 23 developing country national agriculture research systems and universities.
Cette publication offre de nombreux exemples concrets détaillant différentes manières de réengager les jeunes dans le secteur agricole. Elle montre à quel point des programmes éducationnels sur mesure peuvent offrir aux jeunes les compétences et la perspicacité nécessaires pour se lancer en agriculture et adopter des méthodes de production respectueuses de l’environnement. Beaucoup des approches ou des initiatives décrites dans cette publication sont issues des jeunes eux-mêmes.
The 2021 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2021) highlights the remarkably high severity and numbers of people in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) or equivalent in 55 countries/territories, driven by persistent conflict, pre-existing and COVID-19-related economic shocks, and weather extremes. The number identified in the 2021 edition is the highest in the report’s five-year existence. The report is produced by the Global Network against Food Crises (which includes WFP), an international alliance working to address the root causes of extreme hunger.
Esta tesis en el marco del Proyecto CATIE-MAGA-Noruega, brinda su aporte al componente dos del proyecto: Fortalecimiento de la articulación y sostenibilidad de los sistemas locales de extensión, orientado a establecer 25 sistemas locales de extensión fortalecidos en su articulación y capacidades en la aplicación de enfoques, métodos y herramientas de extensión rural en el municipio y cuyos aprendizajes se difundirán a nivel nacional.
Este documento trae herramientas de desarrollo de capacidades enfocadas en la abordaje territorial. Describe el caso de 25 municipios de Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz y Chimaltenango, Guatemala.
Esta tesis busca construir de manera participativa criterios para la selección de alternativas de manejo de sistemas agroforestales de café con sombra relacionadas al uso de la biodiversidad en La Dalia, Nicaragua.
El objetivo del estudio fue analizar el camino del impacto impulsado por el Proyecto Cacao Centroamérica y otras iniciativas relacionadas con el desarrollo de la producción y comercialización de cacao en la región de Waslala, Nicaragua. Se utilizó la metodología Impress ex post (Impact of Research in the South), la cual considera elementos de evaluación cualitativa y cuantitativa, y permite reconstituir el camino del impacto de manera participativa, enfocándose en los procesos de innovación.