Written by: : S. Kachelriess-Matthess, P. Keller, C.N. Orleans, B. Agbo, Y.A. Baro, S. Frankel, J. Shantz
The African Cashew Initiative supports various farmer groups and union in their effort to become more and more professional and offer value services for their members. Producer...
22/05/2012
Written by:Temesgen Kassa and Zelalem Belayneh
In Ethiopia, as in many parts of the World, large numbers of poor and food insecure farmers store their grain in underground pits. In the East Hararge zone of Ethiopia, the pits are characterized by different shapes and sizes ranging from...
20/04/2012
Written by: Nicholas Daniels, Kenya government relations analyst, One Acre Fund, and Stephanie Hanson, director of policy and outreach, One Acre Fund
Lorna Simiyu is a Kenyan farmer, a mother of five who is singlehandedly growing her family out of poverty. Lorna’s day starts...
20/04/2012
Written by: M. Kalim Qamar and Magdalena Blum
Shazia Kausar, a young woman suffering from Hepatitis C and enjoying membership of Debsi Muhallah, District Kotli Community Organization, comes
from a very poor family. She needed enough earnings to support her parents, two younger...
20/04/2012
Written by: Kenneth Masuki, Jeremias Mowo and Rick Kamugisha
The work by the African Highlands Initiative (AHI) in Rubaya sub-county, Kabale district, Uganda revealed that farmer institutions lacked access
to appropriate information necessary to apply methods and technologies for...
20/04/2012
Written by: John Preissing and Estibalitz Morras Dimas
In Central America there are numerous examples of extension experiences from public and private programs that have been very successful, but
so far the factors that determine the success or failure of these interventions have not...
20/04/2012
Written by:Guy Faure, CIRAD, UMR Innovation, France; Ismail Moumouni, University of Parakou, Benin; Aurelle de Romemont, CIRAD, UMR Innovation France
In developing countries advisory services are undergoing radical changes. Today, agricultural development stakeholders may provide...
20/04/2012
Written by:Erin Antcliffe-Engineers Without Borders
Engineers Without Borders Canada and the Ghanaian Ministry of Food and Agriculture have developed a curriculum designed to strengthen the unity
of Farmer Based Organizations (FBOs), improve the business skills of farmers and build...
20/04/2012
Written by: Dominique Hounkonnou, Suzanne Nederlof, Niels Röling and Arnold van Huis
The international consensus was that productivity growth requires a smooth flow of ‘innovations’ from science to ‘ultimate users’. That consensus is
shifting to other...
20/04/2012
Written by: Ashraf Alhawamdeh, Director of Participatory Extension Unit/NCARE-Jordan
IPM approaches in Jordan are not new, and have been promoted for a few decades now. However, at farm level overuse of pesticides is still
common. A main reason for this is the lack of farmers’...
20/04/2012
Written by: Abate Bekele (PhD), Kebebew Assefa (PhD) and Demeke Nigussie (M.Sc)
In Ethiopia, small-scale farms are still viable producing the bulk of grain. Researchers debate on farm scale and the food crisis in light of recent
hikes in food prices and the future of smallholder...
20/04/2012
The FAO Country Profiles information system (http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles) is an information retrieval tool which groups FAO and partner organizations' archives of information in agriculture and development in a single area and groups it and presents it by country.
The FAO...
28/02/2012
This course is for professionals from research, extension, farmer organizations and private sector, working in rural innovation networks, who are involved in designing, facilitating and coaching on-the-job participatory learning processes.
The programme will enhance participants'...
21/02/2012
The overall objective of the conference was to provide a space for sharing current thinking and practice and building coalitions of farmers, practitioners, policymakers and other key actors to advocate and implement policy reforms and innovations in extension and advisory services; especially...
16/12/2011
The recent international expert consultation organized in June 20-23 2011 in Beijing by the Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) (http://www.ciard.net) partners advanced the development of a framework for data and information sharing and exchange for...
11/07/2011
Expert Consultation Meeting on GIS Applications in Agricultural Development in WANA Region in Amman-Jordan, 7-8 June 2011
At the 2007 ICM4ARD Workshop for West Asia and North Africa (WANA), organized by AARINENA, application of Geographical Information System (GIS) and effective use of spatial...
08/07/2011
Prof. Liu Xu, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) launched the Coherence in Information in Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) Website (http://www.ciard.net/zh-hans) in Chinese on 21 June 2011. The CIARD Website in Chinese is being maintained by the...
06/07/2011
Infoshare Marketplace at the International Expert Consultation on Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing
An Infoshare Marketplace where participants could share their and their organizations experiences in sharing data and information was organized on 20 June 2011 during the...
06/07/2011
The Consultation
This International Expert Consultation, which has been preceded by an electronic consultation on the e-agriculture platform, will consider steps that need to be taken globally to build a framework for data and information sharing for agricultural research for development. Some...
05/06/2011
There is a growing movement to make data and information in the public domain more accessible and effectively used. The CIARD movement advocates, promotes and supports making agricultural research information in the public domain not only available but more easily accessible, applicable and...
20/05/2011
A Training Workshop on Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) and Strengthening RAIS in the SAARC Countries was organized jointly by SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC), APAARI, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), FAO and GFAR at SAC, BARC Campus in Dhaka...
30/04/2011
Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing: e-consultation
In 2011, CIARD is addressing the topic of sharing and interoperability of data and information for agricultural research for development.
There will be an international Expert Consultation in Beijing from 20 to 23...
25/03/2011
1. ICAR invites all Indian NARIs and universities to join CIARD
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has formally invited all ICAR Institutes and all Universities to join the “Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development” (CIARD) initiative (...
14/03/2011
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At the XIIIth World Congress of IAALD held in Montpellier, the new website of the global initiative on...
19/05/2010
Science Forum 2009
The Workshop on ICTs Transforming Agricultural Science, Research and Technology Generation organized by GFAR during the Science Forum 2009 concluded that by investing in ICTs, more participatory, collaborative, creative and “impactful” agricultural science...
16/07/2009
