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  • Research, Learning, and Networks

    By Ric Coe, Director and Specialist in Research Methods, Statistics for Sustainable Development I have spent my career helping agricultural, environmental, and rural development scientists with their research. The aim is always much the same: rigorous, dependable, unbiased results upon which people can act. But do we use the same approach when working on our […]

    Date: 10/24/2021

    Resource Type: Learning / story

  • Relearning Research Methods

    By Ric Coe, Director and Specialist in Research Methods, Statistics for Sustainable Development Generations of agricultural scientists have been taught the same research methods. While novel questions sometimes require novel methods, the basic tools have been established a long time. Take field experiments. The principles of good (valid, efficient) experiments were written by Fisher nearly […]

    Date: 10/24/2021

    Resource Type: Learning / story

  • Meet Some of the Champions of Farmer Research Networks

    Farmers and researchers around the world are working together tirelessly to advance agroecological transitions. Their co-creation is driving change at the local, regional, and global levels. Meet some of the champions doing this work within the CCRP’s farmer research networks (FRNs). Meet Mahama Ouedraogo Meet Eliseo Mamani Alverez Meet Celia Marcelina Plata Aguilar Meet Boukari Harouna […]

    Date: 10/24/2021

    Resource Type: Learning / story

  • Applying a Systems and Complexity Lens to Building Evaluation Capacity

    Learning from a multicountry donor’s experience Although the evaluation field has increasingly integrated systems thinking and complexity science (STCS) into its work, little has been published on how to build capacity for STCS-informed evaluation. This article helps address that gap by exploring paired concepts drawn from the STCS and evaluation capacity building (ECB) literature, including: […]

    Date: 9/1/2021

    Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

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  • RMS Creates Presentation Tutorial for Widespread Student Use

    The research methods support (RMS) project is all about increasing the effectiveness of agroecological research done by the CCRP. The team works the many individuals and groups within the program who need support designing research, handling and analyzing data, and using the results. Sometimes, the diverse activities in which RMS gets involved come together in […]

    Date: 6/3/2021

    Resource Type: Instructional material

  • Farmer Research Networks in Principle and Practice

    In 2013, the Collaborative Crop Research Program initiated support for farmer research networks (FRNs). FRNs were envisaged as a general approach to networked participatory research aimed at supporting the agroecological intensification of smallholder farming in ten countries in Africa and the Andes region in South America. The 30 FRNs ranged in size from 15 to […]

    Date: 6/3/2021

    Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

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  • Funder-Initiated Communities of Practice

    Planned communities of practice can be an effective means to create and spread knowledge. Funder-Initiated Communities of Practice as a Means for Sharing and Creating Knowledge in Order to Strengthen the Adaptive Capacity of Systems, published in Foundation Review, explores the degree to which CoPs can be initiated by funders, and presents the lessons learned […]

    Date: 3/1/2021

    Resource Type: Peer-reviewed article

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    Food Systems Summit Dialogues

    In September 2021, the United Nations will hold its first Food Systems Summit. (Exact dates to be determined.) CCRP grantee Global Alliance for the Future of Food will contribute in multiple ways. Its executive director, Ruth Richardson, is among those leading the Champions Network and is a part of the executive committee. Across the CCRP […]

    Date: 2/15/2021

    Resource Type: Program resource

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    Bioversity International

    A team of researchers at Bioversity International has continued to develop the “tricot” approach to research with farmers. The team developed and validated prototypes to make the process clearer to farmers, having found that farmers were more motivated to participate if they had a full understanding of the research cycle. The ClimMob digital platform, which […]

    Date: 2/15/2021

    Resource Type: Instructional material

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  • Modeling and Mapping Village Futures

    A presentation made to the FRN working group on modelling village futures using a land use game with farmers in Mali. Read about how a board game can be used to create scenarios and project their impacts into the future.

    Source: Mary Ollenburger

    Date: 10/27/2020

    Resource Type: Project summary

    West Africa

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    Agroecological Transitions

    The presentation used by the Agroecology Support (AES) team for their opening talk at the 16th Annual Andes CoP meeting. It contains an overview on the agroecological principles and transition process, including a case study from Vermont (U.S.)

    Source: Agroecology Support (AES) Team

    Date: 10/26/2020

    Resource Type: Instructional material

    Andes

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    Transiciones Agroecologicas

    La presentación utilizada por el equipo de AES para la charla de apertura. Contiene una visión general de los principios agroecológicos y el proceso de transición, incluyendo un estudio de caso de Vermont (EE.UU.)

    Source: Agroecology Support (AES) Team

    Date: 10/26/2020

    Resource Type: Instructional material

    Andes

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    Transitions Agroecologiques

    La présentation utilisée par l’équipe de l’AES pour l’exposé d’ouverture. Elle contient un aperçu des principes agroécologiques et du processus de transition, y compris une étude de cas du Vermont (États-Unis).

    Source: Agroecology Support (AES) Team

    Date: 10/26/2020

    Resource Type: Instructional material

    Andes

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  • Andes landscape

    Vision Synthesis

    A presentation by the AES team with a synthesis of the visions shared by the groups. It brings together the principles and values that participants considered key for a transformation as well as the steps and recommendations necessary to turn visions into action.

    Source: Agroecology Support (AES) Team

    Date: 10/26/2020

    Resource Type: Instructional material

    Andes

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    Visiones Sintesis

    La presentación del equipo de AES con una síntesis de las visiones compartidas por los grupos. Reúne los principios y valores que los participantes consideraron claves para una transformación, así como los pasos y recomendaciones necesarios para convertir las visiones en acciones.

    Source: Agroecology Support (AES) Team

    Date: 10/26/2020

    Resource Type: Instructional material

    Andes

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  • Andes landscape

    Visions Synthese

    La présentation par l’équipe AES avec une synthèse des visions partagées par les groupes. Elle rassemble les principes et les valeurs que les participants ont considérés comme essentiels pour une transformation ainsi que les étapes et les recommandations nécessaires pour transformer les visions en actions.

    Source: Agroecology Support (AES) Team

    Date: 10/26/2020

    Resource Type: Instructional material

    Andes

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  • FRN Poster 2020

    This poster provides a 2020 update on FRNs in CCRP

    Source: CCRP program team (designer: Molly Towne; input from Mary Richardson)

    Date: 9/30/2020

    Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

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  • Using Beans as a Relay Crop

    Access Agriculture produced a video aimed at farmers explaining how beans can be planted in between rows of corn.

    Source: Access Agriculture

    Date: 9/24/2020

    Resource Type: Video

    Andes

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    Can Smartphones Enhance Social Learning in FRNs?

    A group of three Kenya based CCRP projects—FRN NGO, MLP, and AE Hub—have a keen interest in helping farmers to improve soil health, using knowledge-based and dialogue oriented approaches. The group is working with 347 Kenyan farmers affiliated with 8 NGOs. Farmers who belong to the FRN all struggle with the parasitic weed striga, which […]

    Source: Beth Medvecky, AE Hub; The McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Program; Evans Odhiambo and Lilian Night; David Stern; FRN members

    Date: 9/21/2020

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    East & Southern Africa

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