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

Policy Brief: Climate Smart Landscapes - Integrating Mitigation, Adaptation and Development in Shinyanga Region, Tanzania

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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...

Guide

MBILI - Handbook for Innovative Maize-Legume Intercropping

A handbook on a maize-legume intercropping system developed by the Managing Beneficial Interactionsin Legume I...

Case Study

Biochar in conservation farming in Zambia - Improving crop yield and storing carbon. End report phase 1; October 2011

 A project report from the 'Biochar in conservation farming in Zambia' project by th...

Case Study

Enclosures in West Pokot, Kenya: Transforming land, livestock and livelihoods in drylands

Abstract Dryland livestock production syst...

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...

Booklet

Bambara market growth and utilization

A brochure promoting the benefits of the "underutilized" bambara groundnut, particularly as a source of protei...

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...

Guide

AflaSTOP Grain Drying Sourcebook

A sourcebook collecting together a range of methods for drying and storing grains to arrest the growth of afla...

Guide

Postharvest Handling Manual for Maize, Millet, Sorghum, Sweet Potato and Cassava

Maize, millet, sorghum, sweetpotatoes and cassava are the major crops grown and cons...

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 1: "The Objectives"

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 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 - Practicalities

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

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...

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

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...

Video

Access Agriculture

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

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...

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...

Template

FRN Observation Protocol

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

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...

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...

Case Study

Local Forecast Communication in the altiplano

A paper, produced by the American Meteorolo...

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)...

Case Study

CCRP Mini Case Studies

A collection of one-page infographic-style case studies showing the methods and outcomes of CCRP projects.Usef...

Guide

Recording the weather

A short video about recording weather information - how this can be of benefit for farmers and different metho...

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...

Diagram

Teoría del Cambio (TdC) para Redes de Agricultores Investigadores (RAI)

Un resumen de la Teoría de Cambio  para Redes de Agricultores Investigadores (RAI).

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....

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...

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

Manor House Agricultural Centre

This video, presented by Elizabeth Dick, and created for the November 2023 FRN WG meeting,  explains the role...

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 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...