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Discover more about farmer research networks and how they work.
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Guides, methods and references for FRNs.
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Resources related to research methods, and how to include farmers in the research process.
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Important considerations for ethical and inclusive research practices.
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Insights into what FRNs have been doing.
Booklet
Social Science Research Methods and Approaches for Research and Development Work with Farmers
A guide to research methods produced by CCRP for thesis students and researchers with training in biological s...
Curricula / Training Course
Involving farmers in the research cycle
Involving farmers in all stages of research is a principle of FRNs and more generally of participatory researc...
Video
FRN WG April 2024 - Observations on impacts and trade-offs for a farmer-led FRN
In this meeting of the FRN Working Group, Beth Medvecky shares her observations from working with an FRN calle...
Video
Research Methods to Foster Just Knowledge Practices - Research Methods Seminar
The session looks at practical examples of just and unjust knowledge practices; related concepts and methods;...
Video
Collaboration in Research - Research Methods Seminar
In this webinar, given by the Research Methods Support project for CRFS, Lucie Hazelgrove-Planel talks about...
Journal Article
Farmer research networks as a strategy for matching diverse options and contexts in smallholder agriculture
This paper gives a summary of – and makes a case for – some of CRFS's (then CCRP) key focuses in their work wi...
Journal Article
Tackling Key Issues for Smallholder Farmers: The Farmer Research Network (FRN) Approach
This is a chapter from the book, 'Sorghum in the 21st Century: Food – Fodder – Feed – Fuel for a Rapidly Chang...
Guide
Relearning research methods
A short piece written by Ric Coe for CRFS on how researchers need to adapt their methods and standard approach...
Journal Article
Farmer research networks in principle and practice
A paper, published in the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, giving an overview of the Col...
Video
Farmer Research Networks in Malawi as a socially just model of inclusive knowledge co-creation
This is a recording of a presentation which was originally given by Dr Romina De Angelis at the UKFIET confere...
Video
FRN RM Session 4 - Rapid Experiments
This presentation was recorded for the December 2023 FRN Research Methods Session. It goes into detail about r...
Video
Manor House Agricultural Centre
This video, presented by Elizabeth Dick, and created for the November 2023 FRN WG meeting, explains the role...
Video
FRN RM Session 3: Making the most of participatory methods in our research
This FRN Research Methods session aimed to follow on from the presentation given by Jutta Blauert at the last...
Video
Approches centrées sur l’agriculteur et flux des informations dans les communautés agraires
Dans cette présentation de la réunion du réseau de recherche avec des agriculteurs du 25 avril 2023, Frank T...
Video
Farmer-centred approaches and information flow in agrarian communities
In this presentation from the CRFS FRN working group session on 25th April 2023, Frank Tchuwa from Lilongwe...
Video
Enfoques centrados en el agricultor y flujos de información en las comunidades agrarias
En esta presentación de la reunión de la red de investigación agrícola del 25 de abril de 2023, Frank Tchuwa...
Video
FRN Research Methods Session 1: Methods for understanding who is participating in research (and why)
The FRN Research Methods sessions are designed to share experiences and emerging ideas on research methods tha...
Script
FRN RM Session 2: Understanding networks in agroecology and FRNs (recorded presentations and related resources)
This FRN research methods session focused on how to generate research questions about our networks (for exampl...
Template
FRN Observation Protocol
This protocol is for an instrument that can be implemented by facilitators of Farme...
Curricula / Training Course
Introduction to models and tools for social networks
Many quantitative analyses in the social sciences are applied to data regarding characteristics of people, but...
Video
Options by Context - The Concept
In this short video, Ric Coe introduces the concepts of options by context interactions by describing the more...
Webinar
Webinar: FRNs and Relearning Research Methods
A webinar presented by Ric Coe as part of the RMS Seminar Series for CCRP projects. This webinar discusses how...
Video
Presenting Research Results: Adapting to the Audience Part 2 - Adapting to Farmers
A video expanding expanding on a previous resource on adapting the way you present your results to suit the in...
Guide
Protocolos de seguridad y de investigación en el CCRP-Andes
A raíz de la pandemia del Covid-19 algunos investigadores de la comunidad de práctica de los Andes del Progra...
Guide
Remote Participatory Data Collection
'Data Collection in a time of COVID-19'. A short guide giving advice and suggestions on alternative method...
Case Study
Experimentos con y para pequeños productores de quinua en Bolivia
Experimentos con y para pequeños agricultores que cultivan quinua en BoliviaUna descripción del proceso para e...
Webinar
Virtual Meeting Tips and Checklist
Virtual meeting facilitation guides provided to CCRP by Lecia Grossman
Guide
Testing a Survey Questionnaire
A short PDF guide detailing the process of pilot-testing a questionnaire to check if it is ready for use in a...
Guide
SAS2: A Guide to Collaborative Inquiry and Social Engagement
A book providing tools and approaches for development projects, with a focus on participatory research. Would...
Guide
Guide to measuring farm input and output data
A guide to measuring smallholder farm inputs and output data. Such data is often collected via a survey usin...
Guide
Global Community Action Guides
This pack contains three booklets on community-led research created by the International Accountability Projec...
Example
Community-led Research is What Today’s Development Needs: Global Community Action Guides to Support Community Organizers
An article on medium.com containing information about community action and community-led research. The art...
Guide
Field notes: a rapid guide
A rapid guide to taking better field notes.The Spanish translation of this resource can be found at: https://s...
Guide
Using photography in research
Photography (still and video) can play an important role in fieldwork and data gathering, as well as data man...
Webinar
Clacso Webinar Sesión 9: Estudios de Caso de Investigación Acción Participativa (IAP) en Agroecología
Esta es una grabación en vivo del seminario web realizado por Ernesto Méndez del ALC, Universidad de Vermont....
Reference
Collaborative Crop Research Programme - Principles
The principles of CCRP as stated by the programme. Stats4SD is heavily involved in supporting the programme by...
Reference
Principles of FRN
Working principles for Farmer Research Networks from CCRP. This is a version that is still in circulation in 2...
Guide
Designing Participatory On-Farm Experiments: Resources for Training
A collection of training materials to support the design of participatory on-farm experiment...
Video
Access Agriculture
Access Agriculture is an international NGO which showcases agricultural training videos in local languages. Th...
Diagram
Teoría del Cambio (TdC) para Redes de Agricultores Investigadores (RAI)
Un resumen de la Teoría de Cambio para Redes de Agricultores Investigadores (RAI).
Journal Article
Beyond average: new approaches to understand heterogeneity and risk of technology success or failure in smallholder farming
A journal article focused on the need for different approaches for the measurement and evaluation of options i...
Guide
Managing aflatoxins in maize during drying and storage
A video in which farmers in Tanzania explain and demonstrate how they dry and store their maize in order to...
Guide
Scouting for fall armyworms
A video advising the practice of inspecting fields regularly in the first 6 weeks of growing crops to manage f...
Guide
Killing fall armyworms naturally
A video explaining methods for managing the fall armyworm without the use of chemical pesticides, and the reas...
Guide
Forecasting the weather with an app
A video about the 'Weather Underground' app, which some farmers in Bolivia are using to get weather forecasts...
Guide
Recording the weather
A short video about recording weather information - how this can be of benefit for farmers and different metho...
Guide
Living windbreaks to protect the soil
A short video explaining how 'live barriers' can be used by farmers in the Andes to protect find soil from bei...
Guide
Growing lupin without disease
A short video providing guidance on how to grow Lupin. This information may be useful for farmers and those wo...
Guide
Managing aflatoxins in groundnuts during drying and storage
A short video explaining the importance of, and methods for, managing aflatoxins in groundnuts. This informati...
Survey
CCRP FRN Fall Army Worm Survey
An example of a short survey that could be used to identify and document local Fall Army Worm Management pract...
Guide
Practical Guides for Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers: Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers
Part of a series of factsheets and practical guides for conducting participatory variety evaluation with far...
Guide
Practical Guides for Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers: Evaluation sheet for small groups evaluating a trial
Part of a series of factsheets and practical guides for conducting participatory variety evaluation with far...
Guide
Practical Guides for Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers: Harvest procedure for pearl millet trials managed by farmers
Part of a series of factsheets and practical guides for conducting participatory variety evaluation with far...
Guide
Practical Guides for Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers: Open-Ended Evaluation – Qualitative Data
Part of a series of factsheets and practical guides for conducting participatory variety evaluation with far...
Guide
Practical Guides for Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers: Ranking or Scoring
Part of a series of factsheets and practical guides for conducting participatory variety evaluation with far...
Guide
Practical Guides for Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers: Identification of varietal selection criteria of the farmers during evaluation of trials
Part of a series of factsheets and practical guides for conducting participatory variety evaluation with farme...
Case Study
CCRP Mini Case Studies
A collection of one-page infographic-style case studies showing the methods and outcomes of CCRP projects.Usef...
Reference
Principles of experimentation that farmers need to understand
If farmers take more roles in experimentation then they need to understand the basic principles of how an expe...
Guide
Tephrosia Vogelii Information Sheet
Information sheet with technical details about Tephrosia Vogelii, a tree with multiple uses, including pest ma...
Guide
Fish Bean (Tephrosia vogelii) - Echo Plant Information Sheet
Fact sheet with guidance on growing Tephrosia vogelii, or 'fish bean', which is useful for pest management, er...
Guide
Brochure: Ngolo Cultivation Technology
A brochure containing information about the Ngolo or Matengo pit system. This is essentially a soil and water...
Guide
Tumbukiza! A Better Way To Grow Napier Grass For More Milk
A short factsheet giving guidance on improved methods for growing napier grass to feed cows in low to medium a...
Journal Article
Langscape Magazine Vol. 2 Issue 12 - Emerging Paradigms Series Part 1: Biocultural Diversity: An Emerging Paradigm in a Changing World
Langscape is a magazine published by the international nonprofit organisation, Terralingua. Its focus is biocu...
Guide
Video: Grow Row by Row
A video produced by ICRISAT about planting methods and practices that can be used to help manage striga. Could...
Guide
Video: Composting to beat striga
A video produced for ICRISAT about the benefits of using compost over manure. What is less known is that the...
Video
Video: Joining hands against striga
A video produced for ICRISAT about ways of managing and preventing the spread of the parasitic striga weed, an...
Video
Video: Striga Biology
A video produced for ICRISAT about striga, a parasitic weed that causes great yield losses from cereal crops....
Video
Video: Integrated approach against striga
A video produced for ICRISAT about using multiple control methods to reduce striga and obtain a good yield of...
Guide
The Talking Toolkit. How smallholding farmers and local governments can together adapt to climate change
A collection of suggestions for activities that can be used to facilitate discussions with farmers as part of...
Guide
Handbook for Participatory Action Research, Planning and Evaluation
This handbook is available in English, French and Spanish. It is an integrated collection of...
Guide
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design
By IDEO.orgThis book is available from Design Kit as a free PDF download. Extract:...
Guide
Farmer Led Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Case Studies from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
This book contains case studies of projects promoting Farmer Led Documentation (FLD)...
Guide
Participatory Research Methods for Technology Evaluation: A Manual for Scientists Working with Farmers
Abstract: This manual presents methods that enable a...
Guide
80 Tools for Participatory Development
A collection of methodologies and tools to be used to facilitate collective action...
Guide
Catalyzing Networks for Social Change: A Funder's Guide
A guide produced by Monitor Institute and Grantmakers for Effective Organisations (GEO) aimed at grantmakers a...
Case Study
Protecting Community Rights over Traditional Knowledge: Implications of customary laws and practices - Key findings and recommendations 2005-2009
Key findings report from an action-research project "focused on developing alternative tools to protect tradit...
Case Study
Local Forecast Communication in the altiplano
A paper, produced by the American Meteorolo...
Journal Article
Territorial Development And Local Knowledge Systems: Engaging local farming knowledge through a right-based approach to agricultural development
A paper arguing that the agricultural development efforts should support the practic...
Presentation
To Be (Gender Aware) or Not To Be (Gender Blind); That is the Question!
A presentation giving information on gender integration in health programming and d...
Guide
Tips for asking gender-responsive questions
A factsheet produced by Biodiversity International as part of the CGIAR Research Program on ‘Forests, Trees...
Guide
Practical Tips for conducting gender-responsive data collection
A factsheet produced by Biodiversity International as part of the CGIAR Research Program on ‘Forests, Trees an...
Case Study
Case Study: Empowering Women in the Oilseeds Business: The Case of Pkwi Women's Cooperative
A case study of a women's farmer cooperative founded in Uganda to provide social and econom...
Guide
Household Food Security and Gender
A document created by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) which provides guidance for t...
Case Study
What do we mean by ‘women’s crops’? A mixed methods approach
Part of the 'Socioeconomics Discussion Paper Series, published by ICRISAT. ...
Guide
Gender analysis in farming systems and action research: A training manual
A gender analysis training manual, developed for Africa RISING, a USAID funded research-for-development (R4D)...
Guide
Typology construction, a way of dealing with farm diversity: General guidelines for Humidtropics
A document containing guidelines for constructing t...
Presentation
Typologies: Wealth Ranking in Project Areas
Presentation given relating to the 'Upscaling Best Fit Maize-Legume Technologies Through Multi Environment Tri...
Tool
Tools for Development: A handbook for those engaged in development activity
The Tools for Development Handbook produced by CIDT and DFID.Includes a chapter on Stakeholder Analysis (chapt...
Poster
Poster: A Farmer Monitoring Network as the basis for the establishment of Farmer Research Networks
A poster/leaflet giving information about an FRN project implemented with quinoa farmers in Bolivia. Summarise...
Activity
FRN Diagnosis and designing/planning Exercise
A session plan for an exercise to be conducted with Farmer Research Networks (FRNs, researchers and extension...
Checklist
Checklist for Identification of Farmers to Participate in the FRN
An outline for conducting a meeting with farmers with the objective of selecting farmers to participate in a F...
Journal Article
Making Change Happen 3: Concepts for Revisioning Power for Justice, Equality and Peace
Making Change Happen is a series of short publications about the strategies and ideas shaping social justice...
Guide
The Food Spray Manual - Using the Food Spray Method to Enhance Biological Control in Cotton: A trainer's guide
A manual providing guidance on how to use the 'food spray method' as part of Integrated Pest...
Journal Article
Neem for Sustainable Pest Management and Environmental Conservation
An issue of ECHO Asia Notes featuring the article 'Neem for Sustainable Pest Management and Environmental Con...
Guide
Sustainable Agriculture Land Management
A training manual designed for use with farmers, including information and activities. The i...
Case Study
Case Study: From Slash and Burn to ‘Slash and Mulch’
A case study adapted from an article published by ILEIA in Fa...
Case Study
Integrating diverse grain legumes for increased land productivity on small farms in Malawi
Case study of a trial of 'doubled-up legume technology' conducted with smallholder farmers in Malawi. Produced...
Guide
Enclosures to protect and conserve for better livelihood of the West Pokot community
Field guide developed by the Regional Land Management Unit (RELMA), a part of the Swedish In...
Case Study
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration
A report on the impact of a reforestation project conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using an approach of 'farme...
Case Study
Maize-legume rotations improve soil health and crop productivity
A summary of findings from the "Best Bets" research project undertaken in Malawi.Excerpt:To...
Case Study
Assessing sustainability at farm-level: Lessons learned from a comparison of tools in practice
Summary: An academic review of different assessment tools, used on the same farms in Denmark. Tools assessed i...
Video
Large N Trials - Practicalities
This video explores the practicalities of running a large-N trial, including how to overcome the bottlenecks o...
Tool
Agroecology Criteria Tool (ACT) - Biovision
Summary:The Agroecology Criteria Tool (ACT) methodology is based on the analytical framework by Gliessman on t...
Video
Options by Context - The Design
This video discusses some of the issues surrounding the design of experiments when considering options by cont...
Video
Options by Context - The Concept
In this short video, Ric Coe introduces the concepts of options by context interactions by describing the more...
Webinar
Designing Right-N Trials with Farmers - Week 4: "Implementation"
This webinar was given to a group of CCRP West Africa Grantees as part of the Research Methods Support Project...
Webinar
Designing Right-N Trials with Farmers - Week 3: "Measurements"
This webinar was given to a group of CCRP West Africa Grantees as part of the Research Methods Support Project...
Webinar
Designing Right-N Trials with Farmers - Week 2: "Design Details"
This webinar was given to a group of CCRP West Africa Grantees as part of the Research Methods Support Project...
Webinar
Designing Right-N Trials with Farmers - Week 1: "The Objectives"
This webinar was given to a group of CCRP West Africa Grantees as part of the Research Methods Support Project...
Video
Experiments with Farmers V - "Communicating the design"
Communication is vital when conducting experiments with farmers. This video discusses some of the issues of ho...
Video
Experiments with Farmers IV - "Farmers are not replicates!"
Replication is often a point of confusion for researchers. Often, researchers conducting on-farm trials will s...
Video
Experiments with Farmers III - "From noise to information"
This video gives some examples of how to look at data from on-farm trials in a slightly different way, enablin...
