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The IFAD funded SKiM Knowledge Management Portal, is a beacon of publications, news, data and information coming from research for development organizations, academia, government bodies, national agricultural research systems and extensionists across the globe. The Portal is built to enhance the outreach of the scientific and organizational knowledge aggregated, fostering partnership building and information sharing across users and institutions, strengthening knowledge management and providing the basis for more advanced knowledge visualization (OpenRXV powered SKiM Explorer ).
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Drought vulnerability assessment and mapping: A tool for tailoring drought mitigation and adaptation strategies
30 Sep 2022
Poor understanding of the drivers of drought vulnerabilities explains the lack of proactive drought management. With the composite vulnerability index, decision makers can tailor drought management strategies to each specific local situation.
Author
Valerio Graziano Email
v.graziano@cgiar.org Resources
Community Initiative Fund: A matching-grant formula for financing groups to set up small-scale productive enterprises
30 Sep 2022
The objective Butana Integrated Rural Development Project was to improve in a sustainable manner the livelihoods and resilience of the poor rural households living in Butana area, in Sudan. As part of its implementation, the project developed the capacity of community based organizations to engage in rural finance. This included a community approach to support the poorest farmers by co-financing small scale productive enterprises: the Community Initiative Fund.
Author
Valerio Graziano Email
v.graziano@cgiar.org Resources
Inclusive rural finance: Enhancing access to financial services for young entrepreneurs
31 Dec 2021
In the Republic of Moldova, the lack of knowledge about rural investment possibilities, as well as uncertainty about running a small business, causes hesitation among young people who want to become entrepreneurs. With the help of the Inclusive Rural Economic and Climate Resilience Programme (IRECR), farmers are now able to apply for loans and initiate or develop their own businesses, adopt innovative agricultural practices, or capitalize on high-quality agri-food products for domestic and regional markets.
Author
Valerio Graziano Email
v.graziano@cgiar.org Resources
Open Access Course: Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs)
21 Sep 2021
The training is organized as an open access course/learning path in order to give the possibility to a larger number of officers from the three target countries (Morocco, Moldova, Sudan) to have access to the material. Besides, it will ensure the reuse of the material by the national partners even after the project completion by the stakeholders. The learning path is organized in 4 modules related to the TTOs.
Author
Valerio Graziano Email
v.graziano@cgiar.org Resources
Open Access Course: Valorization and Transfer of Research Results
29 Jun 2020
The Course is organized as open access course by CIHEAM Bari in order to give the possibility to a larger number of officers from the three target countries (Morocco, Moldova, Sudan) to have access to the material. Besides, it will ensure the reuse of the material by the national partners even after the project completion by the stakeholders. The learning path is organized in 4 modules.
Author
Valerio Graziano Email
v.graziano@cgiar.org Resources
Options by Context
Breeders, and other scientists, noticed that results of an experiment may depend on the environment in which it is done – treatment by environment interactions are possible.
Author
Ric Coe Email
rcoe@cgiar.org Resources
Developing policies and programmes on spate irrigation
21 Apr 2020
Prevalent in West Asia, the Middle East and parts of Africa, spate irrigation is a water resource management system in which ephemeral floods are diverted for irrigation. Although spate irrigation can promote livelihood security and rural development by stabilizing food production, it has been overlooked as good practice. IFAD, together with UNESCO-IHE, implemented this grant to develop policies and programmes on spate irrigation system in Ethiopia, Pakistan, Sudan and Yemen.
Author
Valerio Graziano Email
v.graziano@cgiar.org Resources
Integrated Systems Approach
In the face of complexity, many research efforts address a component of the problem rather than attempting to deal with all its dimensions.
Author
Maarten van Ginkel Email
maartenvanginkel1951@gmail.com Powered by
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