CCRP | News & Updates

Projects in West Africa Receive Funds for COVID-19 and Recycling Research

News

Published on: November 17, 2020

WAf projects receive second round of Covid-19 funding, and Agro2eco is approved for a cross-cutting grant.

Cross-Cutting, West Africa

Grupo Yanapai Stages Virtual General Assembly

News

Published on: November 17, 2020

Last September, for the first time in a virtual format, Grupo Yanapai celebrated its annual general assembly and elected a new board.

Andes

EkoRural Contributes to Sustainable Food Systems Handbook

News

Published on: November 17, 2020

CCRP grantee EkoRural contributed to the new handbook Enabling Sustainable Food Systems: Innovators’ Handbook published by FAO and INRAE.

Andes, Cross-Cutting

How Smartphones Can Enhance Farmer Research Network (FRN) Learning

News

Published on: November 17, 2020

Three Kenya-based CCRP projects recently conducted an action-research study to ask how smartphones can enhance social learning in farmer research networks.

East & Southern Africa, Farmer research network (FRN)

IMEP Team Lands Publishing Commitment for CCRP Case Study

News

Published on: November 17, 2020

The integrated monitoring, evaluation, and planning (IMEP) team of the CCRP will have a case study published in the journal New Directions for Evaluation in 2021.

Cross-Cutting

Teams in West Africa Work with Children in Two Ways

Update

Published on: November 17, 2020

Teams share recent updates from the Child Nutrition Project and Networking4Seeds.

West Africa

Smallholder Farmers in Peru Add Online Sales to Expand Market

Update

Published on: November 17, 2020

Agroferias Campesinas started as a project of the gastronomic society APEGA and later became an association formed by the participants. Closed during the first months of COVID-19, a reduced version of it now runs three days a week, with the aid of a small CCRP grant, recently started online delivery.

Andes

Agroecology Support (AES) Project Team Shares Reflections on Agroecology in the Andes

Meetings

Published on: November 17, 2020

During the Andes CoP16 meeting, the Agroecology Support (AES) team led a workshop centered on agroecological transitions.

Andes, Cross-Cutting

FUMA Videos Inspire Others to Explore the Use of Urine as a Fertilizer

News

Published on: November 17, 2020

The FUMA Gaskiya FRN’s study of sanitized human urine, or oga, as a fertilizer is inspiring others around the world.

Cross-Cutting, West Africa

Project Activities, Results, and Masks Characterize Joint Field Day

News

Published on: November 17, 2020

Two CCRP-funded projects in the Maradi region of Niger—Women’s Fields and CATHI-Gao—held a joint field day to share project activities and results.

West Africa

Minnesota Joins Celebrations for 75th World Food Day Anniversary

News

Published on: November 17, 2020

With Minnesota as a key global center for agriculture production and home to local to global food companies, Global Minnesota hosted a World Food Day event at which CCRP co-director Jane Maland Cady participated in a panel hosted by the Regenerative Agriculture Foundation.

Cross-Cutting

Second Annual East and Southern Africa CoP Meeting Brought Teams Together Virtually

Meetings

Published on: November 17, 2020

The second annual East & Southern Africa CoP meeting was held online late September.

East & Southern Africa, Farmer research network (FRN)

News from the Agroecology Support Team

News

Published on: November 16, 2020

The Agroecology Support (AES) to the CCRP has been busy in 2020. The AES is supported by a cross-cutting grant to a team at the University of Vermont’s Agroecology and Livelihoods Collaborative (ALC), an international leader in research and education on transdisciplinary and participatory agroecology.

Andes, Cross-Cutting, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

Ecological Pest, Weed & Disease Management (EP&D)

News

Published on: October 30, 2020

Since July 2020, a monthly seminar series has been bringing together McKnight supported researchers from across the three regions to discuss the challenges and successes of their research to develop ecologically sustainable technologies and methods to manage various pest and disease issues affecting smallholder farming systems

Andes, Cross-Cutting, East & Southern Africa, Farmer research network (FRN), West Africa

Next Generation Profile: Filemon Elisante

News

Published on: October 14, 2020

Filemon Elisante, The University of Dodoma
Study area: Pollination Ecology

East & Southern Africa, Farmer research network (FRN)

Next Generation Profile: Prisila Mkenda

News

Published on: October 1, 2020

Prisila Andrea Mkenda, Sokoine University of Agriculture
Study area: Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management (Ecological Pest Management)

East & Southern Africa, Farmer research network (FRN)

Uganda Sorghum/Legume Project Collaborates with Soil Toolkit Team

News

Published on: September 25, 2020

The Uganda Sorghum/Legume project teamed up with the Soil Toolkit team to teach project members to use the toolkit to monitor and manage soil health.

Cross-Cutting, East & Southern Africa, Farmer research network (FRN)

IIED presents the 14th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation – September 21-25, 2020

Opportunity

Published on: August 21, 2020

Andes, Cross-Cutting, East & Southern Africa, Farmer research network (FRN), West Africa

International Conference on Sustainable Development – September 21 – 22, 2020

Opportunity

Published on: August 21, 2020

Andes, Cross-Cutting, East & Southern Africa, Farmer research network (FRN), West Africa

2020 Rich Earth Virtual Summit: Reclaiming Urine as a Resource – September 15 – 17, 2020

Opportunity

Published on: August 21, 2020

Be a part of the discussion on the future of urine diversion and its re-use as a fertilizer

Cross-Cutting, Farmer research network (FRN)

Strategic Learning Across the CCRP

News

Published on: June 30, 2020

Cross-Cutting

Next Generation Profile: Diego Fernando Mina

News

Published on: June 23, 2020

Andes

WAf Regional Team Meeting April 2020

Meetings

Published on: June 18, 2020

At this years regional team meeting several WAf grantees shared how they are adapting to COVID-19

West Africa

WhatsApp and Videos Keep Farmer Connections Going During Pandemic

News

Published on: June 18, 2020

Andes, Farmer research network (FRN)

Virtual Education in Rural Schools in Times of Pandemic

News

Published on: June 18, 2020

Huayacallán is a small town in the central highlands of Peru that, like many others, has a school with suspended classes due to the social isolation decreed by the Peruvian State at the national levels.

Andes