Papers

  1. Discussion on the AGRIS strategy paper.
    Summary of point one: ¿The role of AGRIS in capacity building and networking¿
  2. Discussion points for the discussion on the AGRIS strategy paper
    List of discussion points
  3. Session on process and mechanisms to formulate and manage global partnership programmes. Developing an innovative partnership: the coconut global research for development programme
    A Coconut Global Research for Development Programme (CGRDP) is being developed at the initiative of three research and development organisations: APCC, BUROTROP, and COGENT. Building on existing partnerships, networks and linkages has been a main asset. By putting their resources together, the…
  4. Fostering mature partnership in technology generation and transfer: specific role of rural communities of
    the Maghreq/Maghreb project
    The Mashreq / Maghreb project is an adaptive research program for the development of integrated crop/livestock in the low-rainfall areas of West Asia and North Africa. It encompasses two WANA sub-regions: West Asia and North Africa. The project has evolved from technology component testing to an…
  5. Session on process and mechanisms to formulate and manage global partnership programmes. Development of regional marketing facilities for honeybees and silkmoths (Apiculture and Sericulture) products for the local community in East Africa
    The project aims to create market outlets for agro-based products derived from sustainable conservation of honeybees and silkmoths by the rural communities in East Africa. The objective is to promote an intra- African trade for silk and honey based products to create business opportunities among…
  6. Soil fertility improvement for African
    agricultural development through innovative partnerships
    In the context of the Global Soil Fertility Initiative, the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) is promoting and supporting African agricultural development using soil fertility improvement as the focal point. The program involves a participatory process that brings farmers, farmers…
  7. Finding common ground: towards a global initiative on
    direct-sowing, mulch-based systems and conservation
    agriculture (DMC)
    During the coming decades, conservation agriculture technologies will be critically important in improving the productivity and sustainability of agroecosystems in developing countries. The DMC initiative features a bottom-up process of learning and synthesis regarding conservation agriculture…
  8. Development of global partnerships for fish genetics research: a success story
    This paper describes the success of the project in developing methods for genetic enhancement of tropical finfish through partnership among ICLARM (IARC), National Aquatic Research Systems in Asia (NARS), an advanced scientific institution from Norway (ASI), farmers, donors (Annex 1), how the…
  9. Modalities of scaling-up landcare and NRM in the Philippines: creating space for public-private partnerships at the local level
    ICRAF¿s Research and Development Programme is now focused at developing technical, institutional and policy innovations, in an Integrated Natural Resource Management Research (INRM) Framework. The scale of analysis of our work begins at the farm and household level¿to the village and municipal…
  10. Towards an evolving conceptual framework to effectively capture the complexity of collaborative research. New approaches for carrying out agricultural research need new concepts and models
    to improve understanding of synergy dynamics among
    researchers, fa
    In this paper, we provide some conceptual landmarks and theoretical orientations for analyzing new approaches for analyzing change in agricultural research. So, we need to clarify some basic concepts and representations to be able to debate more meaningfully on methodological issues.
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