During the period from May 2002 to August 2003, Ms. Fatima Ribeiro (a Brazilian researcher from IAPAR) carried out activities as DMC facilitator, hosted by CIRAD. Her workplan, approved by the interim steering committee on May 2002., is synthesized as below:
¿ Learning Activities from local initiatives: establishment of an inventory and implementation of case studies on DMC research and development projects ¿ Synthesis activities: synthesis of the (20-30) in order to answer questions on adoption and the state-of-the art about what has been learned about technologies, processes and policies ¿ Feedback/Advocacy activities: Encouraging linkages between research-extension with development, identifying relevant research questions, encouraging development of research methods on DMC, encouraging farmer-to-farmer sharing and exchanges across projects ¿ Information sharing activities: development of a DMC Website. Main activities and outputs from May 2002 to August 2003
From the workplan established by the Steering Committee, we concentrated our efforts in on learning activities. However, as some opportunities arisen during this period, other activities were carried out, and the main outputs are summarized below.