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    Improving dietary and health data for decision making in agriculture and nutrition actions in Africa
    (2018-11-02) Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN); International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
    The report covers activities and conference sessions regarding questions and strategies for implementation of the project which aims to develop and build capacity of an information and communications technology-based (ICT-based) platform. This will collect low-cost, high-frequency, high-resolution dietary and health data, and will combine accuracy and frequency through recording events in near-real time. The workshop focused on the following issues: i) What data should the tool/platform collect? ii) Tool-functionality, and methods for testing it, along with comparison to traditional data collection methods iii) Potential uses and scalability of the tool.
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    Capacity for agricultural research for development (C4R4D) in Sub-Saharan Africa Final Technical Report
    (2018-10) Bamba, Zoumana; Kuiseu, Julienne
    The Project is for three years and its objective will be achieved through four expected outputs: (i) research, communication and leadership capacities, and skills of students to undertake quality AR4D sustainably strengthened; (ii) delivery of research outputs in line with national priority research areas supported; (iii) capacities and skills of women scientists strengthened for a better representation in AR4D; and (iv) collaboration and networking among National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS), CORAF, and IITA increased. Specifically, the Project aimed at supporting, at least, 20 MSc and PhD candidates, through a competitive process during the three years. Each country should receive five scholarships (3 MSc and 2 PhD). C4R4D is mainly a coaching program. It provided support to the awardees when they had completed their course work and were preparing the dissertation proposal. In preparation for this critical task, IITA scientists and the national supervisors coached the students to help them to achieve their professional goals. The coaching focused on developing research knowledge and skills that complement the material provided by their respective university’s programs while supporting their research objectives. This involved bringing students to IITA hubs to work on their research projects and develop their skills and competency. This establishes them as scholars in their fields.
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    Making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Eastern & Southern Africa - Annexes to main technical report
    (International Development Research Centre and ASARECA, 2019-01) Mogaka, Hezron; ASAREGA - UGANDA
    This synthesis report recognizes varied outputs from the AFS research projects presented during the side event and proposes a generic framework as well as specific directions for enhancing AFS research through pro-poor targeting and going to scale with technologies and approaches that work for poor smallholder farmers.
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    Making agri-food systems work for the rural poor in Eastern and Southern Africa - main technical report
    (International Development Research Centre / ASARECA, 2019-02)
    Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to face persistent rural poverty, deepening food insecurity, and declining natural resource base and associated ecosystems services. These trends continue to undermine the ability of the rural poor to adapt to varying and changing climatic conditions and these trends may be of concern today and perhaps into the far future unless governments and other partners in the region adopt more aggressive food security enhancement innovations based on existing opportunities. Such opportunities would include the presence of large pool of diversity agricultural crops, agricultural innovations including technologies and management practices, and diversity of ecosystems and associated services. It is estimated that over 315 million or in other words, one in every three persons in SSA live on less than one dollar a day.
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    Harnessing ICT to scale-up agricultural solutions : briefing note
    (2017-12) Leclaire, Mark
    The project aims at developing, testing and sharing a conceptual framework for implementing and assessing gender-responsive information and communication technology (ICT4scale), for scaling agricultural solutions in rural regions. Farm Radio Trust (FRT) leads in the field of information, communication, extension and advisory services with a growing reputation in program and policy development across sub-Saharan Africa. Members of FRT may be engaged in case study and intervention research work throughout the project based on their relevance to the research topic and their geographic focus. The project will examine the role and contribution of ICT in enabling scaling-up of agricultural solutions.
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    Evaluation of Cultivate Africa’s Future Fund (CultiAF)
    (2016-08) McLean, Diana; Rouleau, Esther; Dengu, Ebbie
    The evaluation assesses whether the Cultivate Africa Future Fund (CultiAF) is on track to meet expected immediate and intermediate outcomes. It takes a systems approach, looking at the quality of decision making, management of research, and ongoing performance, and evaluates research quality in terms of the IDRC Research Quality Plus (RQ+) Assessment Instrument (2016), which includes integrity, legitimacy, relevance and positioning for use. It also assesses cross-cutting themes of gender and environmental sustainability. CultiAF is a CAD $15 million competitive grant facility created in 2013 by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).
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    Proceedings of an Inception Workshop for a project Going to Scale : Enhancing the Adaptive Management Capacities of Rural Communities for Sustainable Land Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa; sites Bukwo and Kapchorwa Districts
    (ASARECA, Entebbe, UG, 2009)
    The project inception workshop was conducted with the objective of developing an implementation framework to scale up sustainable rural land management innovations in the Bukwo and Kapchorwa Districts, Uganda. This was to be achieved through the introduction of the project to a larger cross section of stakeholders in the districts; facilitating a common understanding of the project purpose and intentions; clarifying roles and responsibilities of the implementing partners; and agreeing on work plans for the project with focus on the first year. The report details activities and outcomes of the workshop.
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    Proceedings of an Inception Workshop for AHI-PAAP project 'Going to Scale : Enhancing the Adaptive Management Capacities of Rural Communities for Sustainable Land Management in the Highlands of Eastern Africa'
    (ASARECA, Entebbe, UG, 2009) Kibwika, Paul; Musoke, Maria
    In an inception workshop, partners come with issues that they wish clarified; the workshop gave space to allow otherwise contentious issues to be discussed towards a common understanding. The project aims to identify and promote appropriate strategies to accelerate the uptake of successful natural resources management innovations (NRM technologies, institutional options, approaches and tools) that have been tested in pilot sites, by farmers over wider geographic areas in Uganda and Ethiopia. Where NRM research interventions are successful, impacts tend to be limited to small numbers of farmers. Significant contribution to rural livelihoods requires accelerated uptake and scaling up of NRM innovation.
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    Policy Analysis and Advocacy Programme (PAAP) electronic newsletter, volume 12, number 10, 22 May 2009
    (ASARECA, Entebbe, UG, 2009)
    This newsletter issue provides details of the IDRC implementation of a project in Ethiopia and Uganda in scaling sustainable land management (SLM) innovations, for positive and timely outcomes for livelihoods, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. Research evidence has shown that farmers in the region can increase their farm productivity by up to 5 times upon adoption of SLM innovations. In scaling-up, the project will pay particular attention to policy and institutional processes. Understanding access, ownership and control of land in the project communities will be crucial; proactive strategies will ensure active participation of both male and female farmers.
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    Agricultural innovation : more crops per drop
    (The Africa Report, Paris, FR, 2010) Sanginga, Pascal
    The article describes numerous innovations and technologies developed in African agriculture for adaptation to climate change. African farmers innovate in planting methods, selecting varieties and crop combinations that will survive harsh conditions. However, local innovation alone is insufficient to respond to the scale of possible climatic shocks and food crises. Small-scale irrigation technologies, rainwater harvesting and innovations in integrated nutrient management are needed in regions with variable rainfall and frequent drought cycles. Weak institutions, inefficient markets, poor policies and governance contribute to ongoing problems.
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    Natural resource management : the impact of gender and social issues
    (IDRC, Ottawa, ON, CA, 2010) Flintan, Fiona; Tedla, Shibru
    Six research studies are reflected in this volume, exploring the inclusion of gender within natural resource management (NRM) and conservation. The book looks at new trends and drivers in NRM and rural poverty in Africa. Gender relations have a direct impact on the use, management, and conservation of natural resources. Both men and women tend to classify NRM in relation to the spaces that they themselves inhabit, women talking more about households and river resources, and men about agricultural land and forests. Women have been found to be the main farm operators, yet they have the least say in the use of farm resources.
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    Policy Analysis and Advocacy Programme (PAAP) electronic newsletter, volume 13, number 10, 4 June 2010
    (ASARECA, Entebbe, UG, 2010)
    This e-newsletter issue argues for the prioritization of Sustainable Land management (SLM), given the dependency of the livelihoods of local communities on land and land resources. There are existing legal and legislative frameworks for citizens’ participation in decision making and development, however practice to date does not reflect effective participation of districts in central government planning, and sub-counties in district level planning. The report outlines barriers to policy development and practices as well as reparative policy reform proposals. A policy reform team should explore ways of gaining political support by working out clear linkages with the district and sub-county councils.