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  • Challenges and Obstacles to Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 in the West African Sub-Region

    Dr. Fatoumata Ba / Hama (IRSAT/CNRST), nutritionist and principal investigator of the Child Nutrition Project, shared her thoughts during CCRP’s West Africa Community of Practice (CoP) annual meeting on the challenges and obstacles to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 2 in West Africa. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso August 11, 2022 In 2015, all United Nations […]

    Date: 8/12/2022

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    West Africa

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  • Global Movement at Local Levels

    This presentation was made to the FRN working group, sharing how self-help groups and other social infrastructure have helped to spread agroecology practices and principles among millions of farmers in India. Source: G. Muralidhar and Swati Renduchintala, Andra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming

    Date: 4/27/2022

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  • West African CoP 2021 AET Workshop

    Agroecological transition processes in West Africa CoP: Visions inspired by core values and agroecological principles. In April 2021, the Agroecology Support Team (AES) conducted a workshop on the theme of agroecological transitions (AET) through a lens of agroecological principles and personal values.The goal was to strengthen projects’ confidence in their own knowledge and to ease […]

    Source: Gabriela Bucini

    Date: 4/15/2022

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    West Africa

  • Perspectives on Agroecological Transitions

    Two Indonesian farmers in conversation at international agroecology school in Italy. Photo credit: Colin Anderson This series explores praxis in agroecology transitions. Praxis is a critical concept in participatory research and action and can be understood as the dialectical interaction of theory/reflection and practice/action that opens the possibility for contributing to social transformation. Resource Download: […]

    Date: 4/1/2022

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

  • Perspectivas sobre las Transiciones Agroecologicas

    Two Indonesian farmers in conversation at international agroecology school in Italy. Photo credit: Colin Anderson Esta serie explora la praxis en las transiciones agroecológicas. La praxis es un concepto crítico en la investigación y acción participativa y puede entenderse como la interacción dialéctica de teoría/reflexión y práctica/acción que abre la posibilidad de contribuir a la […]

    Date: 4/1/2022

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

  • Perspectives sur les Transitions Agroécologiques

    Two Indonesian farmers in conversation at international agroecology school in Italy. Photo credit: Colin Anderson Cette série explore la praxis dans les transitions agroécologiques. La praxis est un concept important dans la recherche et l’action participatives. Elle peut être vue comme l’interaction dialectique entre la théorie/réflexion et la pratique/action qui ouvre la voie à la […]

    Date: 4/1/2022

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

  • FRNs from the High Andes: Breaking Up Research Paradigms

    By Magali Garcia In times of food, production and sustainability crises, the combination of research and innovation is key to achieving agricultural sustainability at a global level. However, innovations developed by farmers are often considered irrelevant. This is a contradiction in itself since farmers must constantly investigate and innovate in order to deal with the […]

    Date: 2/17/2022

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    Andes

  • Farmer-Centered Research for Agroecology: Learnings from an International Online Gathering

    In October, the CCRP hosted a three-day online gathering of farmers, extensionists, researchers, agronomists, non-governmental organizations, farmers’ unions and federations, policymakers, government representatives, businesses, and more. The aim of the gathering was to weave together diverse strands of experience, practice, stories and evidence from farmer-centered research for agroecology. It celebrated accomplishments, asked some hard questions, […]

    Date: 11/22/2021

    Resource Type: Learning / story

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  • Principles in Action: Diverse Farmers Participate in the Whole Research Process

    By Mary Richardson, Consultant, Anthropologist, and CCRP Farmer Research Networks Learning Coordinator The idea that farmers are essential leaders in propelling agricultural research and protecting the earth’s ecological health is not novel. However, a crucial need has gone unmet: a way to share diverse farmers’ knowledge, successes, and challenges on a much larger scale. Farmer […]

    Date: 10/24/2021

    Resource Type: Learning / story

  • Building an Evidence Base Is Key to Realizing Agroecology’s Potential

    By Nuru Kipato, Research Methods Assistant, Statistics for Sustainable Development  Agroecology has been at the center of many debates in agricultural arenas in recent years. As an up-and-coming researcher, I often wondered what all the fuss was about, so I decided to study up on the subject. My understanding of agroecology is that it describes […]

    Date: 10/24/2021

    Resource Type: Learning / story

  • In Conversation: Building Trust, Expanding Awareness, and Reimagining Farmers’ Roles with FRNs in East Africa

    Angela Mkindi, PhD, and Steven Belmain, PhD, recently sat down to talk about their work with the CCRP’s farmer research network (FRN) initiative. The excerpts below have been edited for length and clarity. On the Progression of Botanical Projects and Traditional Use in East Africa Steve Belmain: There’s been an evolution in what we’ve been […]

    Date: 10/24/2021

    Resource Type: Learning / story

  • 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

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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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  • Bambara Nut Farmer Research Network

    A presentation made to the FRN working group on supporting the female farming system in Burkina Faso by moving towards agroecological methods and creating a (women’s) Bambara nut producers’ federation. It looks at institutionalizing farmer-researcher cooperation to increase research relevance and positive impacts for female farmers.

    Source: Mahama Ouedraogo

    Date: 7/7/2020

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  • Sharing Key Learnings on a Zero Budget: Lessons from Natural Farming in India

    A presentation made to the FRN working group by David Ojuu on his visit to India. Read David Ojuu’s account from his time in India. Sites visited included: Amrita Bhoomischool in Karnataka state on Zero Budget Natural Farming Fireflies intercultural center-Sharing by Agroecology actors funded by AEF Field visits to Ecology school,and farmers on Zero […]

    Source: David Ojuu

    Date: 6/17/2020

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  • Local and Scientific Soil Knowledge

    A presentation made to the FRN working group about scientists’ and farmers’ assessments of soil health. It is widely acknowledged that farmers understand much about their soils. This ‘local soil knowledge’ ( LSK ) is often expressed in terms different from scientists’ soil knowledge ( SSK). Soil knowledge can be distinguished in 3 areas; this […]

    Source: Steven J. Vanek and Ric Coe

    Date: 4/4/2020

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  • Impressions from the Fonio Intensification Project

    Fonio (Digitaria exilis) is a traditional cereal in West Africa, grown by women and men smallholder farmers, either as food crop to reduce impacts of the hungry period, to diversify their own diets, or to sell as cash crop. In addition to its role in food security in many areas of Mali, Burkina Faso, and […]

    Source: Sanogo Moussa Daouda

    Date: 1/30/2020

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    West Africa

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  • Pachagrama

    Herramienta para el registro agroclimático por agricultores A presentation made to the FRN working group on the “Pachagrama”. This is a tool developed in the Bolivian altiplano for farmers to record agro-climatic information to develop local weather forecasts.

    Source: CCRP

    Date: 8/6/2019

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    Andes

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  • Lessons From Practice of the Groundswell Consortium AEI2

    A presentation made to the FRN working group sharing lessons about mobilizing local knowledge in support of agroecological intensification. Read seven key insights from an FRN in Burkina Faso about mobilizing local knowledge in the support of agroecological intensification

    Source: Peter Gubbels

    Date: 8/6/2019

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  • FRN-based Community Phytosanitation Initiative for the Control of Cassava Virus Diseases in Bukedea District, Eastern Uganda

    A presentation made to the FRN working group about community-based phytosanitation to control cassava virus diseases in Uganda. The presentation examines increasing  cassava productivity and incomes of fellow smallholder farmers in Teso sub-region through sustainable and inclusive access to improved farmer preferred virus cassavaseed.

    Source: Norah Asiyo & Deogracious Opolot

    Date: 5/28/2019

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  • Participatory Research Designs with and for Farmers

    Farmer Research Network (FRN) through a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach for the Agroecology Transition (AT) in Chuquisaca –Bolivia. A presentation made to the FRN working group on a participatory action research process carried out in Bolivia with groups of farmers.

    Source: Maria Yumbla

    Date: 5/28/2019

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    Andes

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  • Potato Seed Degeneration in the Tropical Highlands of the Andes in Ecuador

    A presentation made to the FRN working group about research on the social and ecological drivers of potato seed degeneration and farmer-researcher sharing of good management practices in three highland communities in Ecuador. Research that asked the questions: What are the social and ecological drivers altering potato seed degeneration rates? What on-farm management practices are […]

    Source: Israel Navarrete

    Date: 4/4/2019

    Resource Type: Learning / story

    Andes

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