This project generates knowledge on how to best facilitate the conversation of smallholders from predominantly subsistence farming to market-oriented agriculture. The goal is to identify the right mix of crop-livestock strategies to strengthen inclusive market-oriented development, enhance resilience, and sustain livelihoods. Because advisory services have had mixed impact in the past, we experiment with ways to ?nudge? farmers? market-orientation, which had been an expressed interest of farmers in the past. We employ an open IP Approach to better understand and effectively facilitate the change processes.
Contact Person
Sabine Homann <s.homann@cgiar.org>
Partners
BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, ICRISAT - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, MASA - Ministério da Agricultura e Segurança Alimentar (Mozambique) / Ministry of Agriculture and Food SecurityRelated contents
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Related publications
Report on the implementation of the Kabe Watershed Pilot Project in Ethiopia, 2011-2013
Mekonnen, K., Duncan, A. and Cullen, B. 2013. Report on the implementation of the Kabe Watershed Pilot Project in Ethiopia, 2011-2013. Presented at the Workshop on the Lessons and Success Stories from a Pilot Project on Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Kabe watershed, south Wollo, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 11-12 February 2013. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.Science-led interventions in integrated watersheds to improve smallholders’ livelihoods
Wani, S.P., Chander, G. and Sahrawat, K.L. 2014. Science-led interventions in integrated watersheds to improve smallholders’ livelihoods. NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 70-71:71-77.
Addressing learning and complexity: Using the learning and practice alliance model to promote water- smart agricultural technologies in Otuke district
Alinda, V. and Mayanja, C. 2015.Addressing learning and complexity: Using the learning and practice alliance model to promote water- smart agricultural technologies in Otuke district. In: Nicol, A., Langan, S., Victor, M. and Gonsalves, J. (eds), Water-smart agriculture in East Africa. Colombo, Sri Lanka: IWMI and CGIAR research program on WLE; Kampala, Uganda: GWI EA. PP. 273-278.Analysis of economic incentives for managing risk at the farm level in the context of climate change.
Barton, D. N.; Kakumanu, Krishna Reddy; Palanisami, Kuppannan; Tirupathaiah, K. 2012. Analysis of economic incentives for managing risk at the farm level in the context of climate change. In Nagothu, U. S.; Gosain, A. K.; Palanisami, Kuppannan (Eds.). Water and climate change: an integrated approach to address adaptation challenges. New Delhi, India: Macmillan. pp.143-168.