CRFS | News & Updates

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

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.

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

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.

West Africa

Project Activities, Results, and Masks Characterize Joint Field Day

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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

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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.

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

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, 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, East & Southern Africa, West Africa