25 agricultural research and extension organizations use novel citizen science approach for scaled validation/diffusion of climatically adapted varieties

The novel digital citizen science platform ClimMob allows for scaled farmer-participatory validation/diffusion of climatically adapted, stress tolerant varieties of several crops, including wheat, rice, sorghum, groundnut, beans, and barley. The platform has been actively used by over 25 agricultura...

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Autor principal: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Formato: Case Study
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121742
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Sumario:The novel digital citizen science platform ClimMob allows for scaled farmer-participatory validation/diffusion of climatically adapted, stress tolerant varieties of several crops, including wheat, rice, sorghum, groundnut, beans, and barley. The platform has been actively used by over 25 agricultural research/extension organizations to organize adaptive trials, leading to (1) more cost-effective, scalable trials (2) unique climate adaptation insights that could not have been generated otherwise and (3) direct diffusion of a diverse range of varieties to more than 18,000 farmers directly.