fostering relevance, credibility and legitimacy in agricultural research
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Fostering relevance, credibility and legitimacy in agricultural research
Edmundo Barrios – Systems Science (SD1)
Richard Coe – Research Methods Group & Statistics for Sustainable Development
Outline:
1. Background
2. Participatory Trials Design (ParTriDes) workshop tool
3. Participatory Trials across a soil fertility gradient
4. Future challenges
BackgroundKey Challenge: Farmers not adopting technologies which have shown potential toaddress food security or environmental degradation.
What was the nature of farmer
participation? Labour requirements? Linkage
to markets?
BackgroundKey Challenge: Farmers not adopting technologies which have shown potential toaddress food security or environmental degradation.
Where? In the lab?, greenhouse?,
research station? On-farm?
BackgroundKey Challenge: Farmers not adopting technologies which have shown potential toaddress food security or environmental degradation.
Any competing demands?. Have trade-offs been
considered?
Background
Options x Context
Agricultural Management Practices
Bio-physical
Social
Economic
Methodological Approaches(e.g. South-South collaboration)
Facilitate customizing promising options to fit local circumstances across scaling domains and to support farmers in trying these out.
SOUTH-SOUTH COLLABORATION
CIAT
TSBFAHI
Colombia, Honduras, Nicaragua,Dominican Republic, Peru
Uganda, Tanzania
SOUTH-SOUTH COLLABORATION
CIATICRAF
Embrapa
Brazil – 5 biomes
Validation in contrasting socio-ecological contexts
#2 AmazonIgarapé Açu, PA
#1 PantanalBonito, MS
#4 Semi-AridCampina Grande, PB
#3 CerradosMontes Claros, MG
#5 Atlantic ForestCanoinhas, SC
Integração Participativa de Conhecimentos sobre Indicadores de Qualidade do Solo – Guia
Metodológico
InPaC-S
http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/Publications/PDFS/B17293.pdf
Embrapa ICRAF
Africa-Brazil Agricultural Innovation Marketplace
SOUTH-SOUTH COLLABORATION
Mozambique
IIAM
Participatory Knowledge Integration on Indicators of Soil Quality – Methodological
Guide
http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/Publications/PDFS/B17459.pdf (
InPaC-S
ICRAFAustralian Center for
International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Trees for Food Security Project
SOUTH-SOUTH COLLABORATION
EIARNARORAB
ParTriDes
ICRAF GEF projectB4SS Project
SOUTH-SOUTH COLLABORATION
KALRO
ParTriDes
ParTriDes video
B4SS Participatory Trials
CONTROL DAP BIOCHAR BIOCHAR+DAPTrial # 1
CONTROL DAP BIOCHAR BIOCHAR+DAP MANURE BIOCHAR+MANURETrial # 2
Crops: Maize+Beans, Maize or BeansBiochar: 10 ton/ha (Feedstock: Sugarcane bagasse)DAP: Farmer’s practiceManure: Farmer’s practice
Chronosequence catchmentsNandi District
Yala River Watershed, Sub-Watersheds in Kapchorwa
Guerena et al. 2015 Global Biogeochemical Cycles
FOREST CONVERSION AGE & SOIL DEGRADATION
Chronosequence of Catchments
Recent conversion
Intermediateconversion
Oldconversion
> Loss of soil C and N
5 yrs 50 yrs10 yrs
Recha et al. 2013 Nut.Cycl.Agroeco.
2016 Short-rains: 10 on-farm trials
Water monitoring station
2016 Short-rains: 10 on-farm trials
2016 Short-rains: 8 on-farm trials
EmbrapaICRAF
Africa-Brazil Agricultural Innovation Marketplace
Gates Foundation & DFIDM-BoSs programme
2017-2019
SOUTH-SOUTH COLLABORATION
Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania
DRDNARO
CSIR
FUTURE CHALLENGES
Thank You