Video

Experiments with Farmers I - "Why?"

This video introduces the idea of Experiments with Farmers and explores five reasons to involve farmers in you...

Video

Experiments with Farmers II - What happens to designs?

This video explores the details of the way in which experiments with farmers could be designed, using a variet...

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...

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 V - "Communicating the design"

Communication is vital when conducting experiments with farmers. This video discusses some of the issues of ho...

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 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 4: "Implementation"

This webinar was given to a group of CCRP West Africa Grantees as part of the Research Methods Support Project...

Video

Options by Context - The Concept

In this short video, Ric Coe introduces the concepts of options by context interactions by describing the more...

Video

Options by Context - The Design

This video discusses some of the issues surrounding the design of experiments when considering options by cont...

Video

Large N Trials - Concepts

These short videos introduce the concept of "large-N" trials. Ric Coe describes them in terms of more common c...

Video

Large N Trials - Practicalities

This video explores the practicalities of running a large-N trial, including how to overcome the bottlenecks o...

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...

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

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration

A report on the impact of a reforestation project conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using an approach of 'farme...

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

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...

Case Study

Case Study: From Slash and Burn to ‘Slash and Mulch’

A case study adapted from an article published by ILEIA in Fa...

Guide

Sustainable Agriculture Land Management

A training manual designed for use with farmers, including information and activities. The i...

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

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...

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...

Activity

FRN Diagnosis and designing/planning Exercise

A session plan for an exercise to be conducted with Farmer Research Networks (FRNs, researchers and extension...

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...

Presentation

Typologies: Wealth Ranking in Project Areas

Presentation given relating to the 'Upscaling Best Fit Maize-Legume Technologies Through Multi Environment Tri...

Guide

Typology construction, a way of dealing with farm diversity: General guidelines for Humidtropics

A document containing guidelines for constructing t...

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...

Guide

80 Tools for Participatory Development

A collection of methodologies and tools to be used to facilitate collective action...

Guide

Participatory Research Methods for Technology Evaluation: A Manual for Scientists Working with Farmers

Abstract: This manual presents methods that enable a...

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 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...

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...

Video

Video: Striga Biology

A video produced for ICRISAT about striga, a parasitic weed that causes great yield losses from cereal crops....

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...

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...

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

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...

Guide

Brochure: Ngolo Cultivation Technology

A brochure containing information about the Ngolo or Matengo pit system. This is essentially a soil and water...

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

Tephrosia Vogelii Information Sheet

Information sheet with technical details about Tephrosia Vogelii, a tree with multiple uses, including pest ma...

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

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...

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: 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: Pearl Millet Variety Evaluation with Farmers

Part of a series of factsheets and practical guides for conducting participatory variety evaluation with far...

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...

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

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

Killing fall armyworms naturally

A video explaining methods for managing the fall armyworm without the use of chemical pesticides, and the reas...

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

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...

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...

Video

Access Agriculture

Access Agriculture is an international NGO which showcases agricultural training videos in local languages. Th...

Guide

Designing Participatory On-Farm Experiments: Resources for Training

A collection of training materials to support the design of participatory on-farm experiment...

Guide

Global Community Action Guides

This pack contains three booklets on community-led research created by the International Accountability Projec...

Guide

Literature Reviews: Common Errors Made When Conducting a Literature Review

A useful discussion of common errors that can be easily avoided when conducting a literature review.In 12-minu...

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...

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...

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...

Template

FRN Observation Protocol

This protocol is for an instrument that can be implemented by facilitators of Farme...

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...

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

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

Collaboration in Research - Research Methods Seminar

In this webinar, given by the Research Methods Support project for CRFS, Lucie Hazelgrove-Planel talks about...