- The current and future food security of South Asian countries has twin challenges of resource fatigue and decelerating productivity growth of food grain crops. Realizing the importance of these issues not only at national level but also at regional level, the regional NARS (Bangladesh, India, Nepal…
- The Africa-Brazil and LAC-Brazil Agricultural Innovation Marketplaces (~Mktplace~) have been arising as effective mechanisms for South-South Cooperation supporting smallholders. These are partnerships comprised of public and private not for profit, national and international partners who mobilize…
- Agricultural research and development (AR4D) systems are basic to finding the long-term solutions to the sources and motors of recurrent crises. AR4D in post-conflict and protracted crises countries invariably suffers from poor research infrastructure and financial means, high staff turnover and…
- There is a need for strong farmer organizations that can present and represent the interests of smallholders versus more powerful economic groupings in society. However, farmers’ organizations often lack access to the information and evidence needed to develop pro-active proposals to…
- Communities worldwide have begun adopting integrated landscape management approaches that work deliberately to support food production, ecosystem conservation and rural livelihoods across landscapes mosaics. While researchers working on landscape and ecosystem processes fully recognize the…
- The objective is to identify specific interventions that can improve RPOs’ capacities. While recognizing other determinants of success our innovation will be to examine ways to affect RPOs’ performance on input and output markets, through enhanced commitment of members. Broadly…