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Transforming Food Systems in Africa under Climate Change Pressure: Role of Climate-Smart Agriculture by Zougmoré, Robert B., Läderach, Peter R.D., Campbell, Bruce M.

“…We followed an integrative review approach based on selected concrete example-experiences from ground-implemented projects across Africa (Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, in West Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania in East Africa). …”
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Report on AICCRA Ethiopia Inception Workshop by Auma, Joseph

“…By taking to scale actionable CIS and CSA technologies and practices, AICCRA strives to strengthen the productivity and resilience of agriculture in three key agro-ecological zones: Western Africa and Sahelian drylands (Ghana, Senegal, and Mali), Eastern Africa drylands, and the lowlands (Ethiopia and Kenya) to highlands and Southern Africa drylands (Zambia).…”
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Putting Plant Genetic Diversity and Variability at Work for Breeding: Hybrid Rice Suitability in West Africa by El-Namaky, R., Coulibaly, M.M.B., Alhassan, M., Traoré, K., Nwilene, F., Dieng, I., Ortíz, R., Manneh, B.

“…This study evaluated the potential of Asian hybrids with good adaptability to irrigated and rainfed lowland rice areas in Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal. There were 169 hybrids from China included in trials at target sites during 2009 and 2010. …”
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Community voices on climate, peace and security: A social learning approach to programming environmental peacebuilding by Medina, Leonardo, Ensor, Marisa, Schapendonk, Frans, Sieber, Stefan, Pacillo, Grazia, Läderach, Peter R.D., Hellin, Jon, Bonatti, Michelle

“…The method was evaluated across nine rural locations in Kenya, Senegal and Guatemala, involving 221 participants. …”
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Scaling Gender and Nutrition Sensitive technologies and innovations in West and Central Africa: Lessons learnt from the Market for Agricultural Innovation and Technology by Segnon, Alcade C., Obossou, Esdras, Moustapha, Belmira Y., Ganyo, Komla Kyky, Kpadonou, G. Esaïe, Lamien, Niéyidouba, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…Thirteen (13) potential gender- and nutrition-sensitive CSA and CIS innovations available for scaling up were presented by AICCRA country clusters in West Africa focusing on dry land cereals and livestock in Senegal, rice-based systems in Mali and roots and tubers in Ghana. …”
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Intra-household discrete choice experiment for trait preferences: a new method by Mukerjee, Rishabh, Fatou Faye, Ndeye, Badji, Malamine J., Gomez, Miguel, Rubin, Deborah, Tufan, Hale Ann, Occelli, Martina

“…We present preliminary results from testing this combined protocol with 270 cowpea growing households (540 respondents) in Senegal. The findings from this work hold promise to inform crop breeding programs on the value of intra-household analysis for trait priority setting, while offering a new method which is applicable by National Agricultural Research Organizations globally.…”
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Ghana country brief: Understanding the differences between child stunting and anemia reduction and identifying outstanding challenges by Aryeetey, Richmond, Atuobi-Yeboah, Afua, van den Bold, Mara, Nisbett, Nicholas

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Stories of Change - Rwanda, Final Report by Iruhiriye, Elyse, Olney, Deanna K., Ramani, Gayathri V., Heckert, Jessica, Niyongira, Emmanuel, Frongillo, Edward A.

“…The Stories of Change (SoC) case studies, originally conducted in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India (Odisha state), Nepal, Senegal, and Zambia, and now in Rwanda, aim to fill some of these knowledge gaps by examining the “drivers of change” in reducing malnutrition across different contexts.…”
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Processus d’installation des clubs d’écoute : Un outil communautaire de monitoring des informations agro-climatiques by Diallo, Abdoulaye Moussa, Worou, Nadine, Diedhiou, Lamine, Wane, Abdrahmane

“…Le projet AICCRA-Sénégal a mis en place le club d'écoute communautaire (CEC) pour critiquer, discuter et proposer des améliorations du contenu des conseils agro-climatiques fournis par les experts réunis autour de la Communauté de pratique (CoP). …”
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Staff aging and turnover in african agricultural research: a case study on the agricultural research council and faculties of natural and agricultural sciences and veterinary scien... by Liebenberg, Frikkie

“…As part of a series of case studies (including Burkina Faso, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Zambia) that assessed the status of and trends in human resource capacity, this study focused on staffing at the South African Agricultural Research Council (ARC) and the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (FNAS&FVS) and Faculty of Veterinary Sciences (FVS) of the University of Pretoria (UP) during 2001-10. …”
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CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology, Kenya, 2022-2024. End of initiative key messages by Awiti, Alex, Fuchs, Lisa Elena, Nyawira, Sylvia, Chege, Christine G. Kiria, Guettou Djurfeldt, Nadia, Kuria, Anne

“…By testing approaches in so-called agroecological living landscapes (ALLs) in Burkina Faso, India, Kenya, Lao PDR, Peru, Senegal, Tunisia and Zimbabwe, the AE-I aimed to identify, test, and demonstrate replicable transition models for FLW systems in low and middle-income countries, driving large-scale transformation across the Global South. …”
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Systems thinking for hygiene in settings with high risk of infectious disease transmission by Freeman, M.C., Crocker, J., Chipungu, J., Bagwan, J., Dione, Michel M., Dreibelbis, R., Dumlao, M.C., Faruque, A.S.G., Flint-O'Kane, M., Gautam, O.P., Lakhe, N.A., Muga, R., Muralidharan, A., Ndiaye, I., Sarr, M.

“…We convened experts in hygiene across sectors (for example, health, education and agriculture) and disciplines (for example, academia, policy and practice) in Dakar, Senegal, to discuss the critical barriers and opportunities for researching, developing and implementing systems-level hygiene interventions and promote learning across sectors, with a focus on systems approaches. …”
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Rapport de progression des activités de KSDE en partenariat avec le projet AICCRA (2025) by Ka, Binetou, Said Layad, Shakira, Diedhiou, Lamine, Worou, Nadine

“…Face aux effets croissants du changement climatique, le projet AICCRA-Sénégal (Accélérer les impacts de la recherche climatique du CGIAR pour l’Afrique) renforce les capacités des petits éleveurs et agro-éleveurs via le groupage SIC-AIC (Services d’Information Climatique et pratiques climato-intelligentes). …”
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Community-based adaptation costing: An integrated framework for the participatory costing of community-based adaptations to climate change in agriculture by Sova, Chase, Chaudhury, Abrar S., Helfgott, Ariella E.S., Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin

“…The PSROI framework has been applied in three separate pilot initiatives in Kochiel and Othidhe, Kenya, and Dodji, Senegal. This working paper seeks to outline the theoretical and methodological foundations of the PSROI framework, provide case-study results from each pilot study, and assess the strengths and weaknesses of the framework according to its robustness, effectiveness and scalability…”
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Laboratory methods for microbiological assessment of milk by International Livestock Research Institute

“…The Safe Food, Fair Food project aims at adapting and implementing risk assessment in informal markets in four countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda. The outcomes of the project will help identify suitable risk management activities to be piloted in selected livestock value chains, including dairy in Tanzania. …”
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Assessing the reuse of PICS bags in Jigawa, Kano, and Katsina States of northern Nigeria by Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Ayedun, B., Musa, S.A., Lowenberg-Deboer, J., Baributsa, D.

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The International Plant Diagnostic Network West Africa by Beed, Fenton D., Sikirou, R., Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit, Twizeyimana, M., Miller, S.

“…West Africa’s IPDN was established with a hub lab at IITA Bènin with spoke labs in Ghana, Mali and Senegal with support provided by IITA Nigeria. The urgent need for a network such as the IPDN was demonstrated by results from a survey of stakeholders in the region. …”
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Methodological guide: Community participatory inventory and prioritization of climate-smart crop-livestock agroforestry technologies / practices by Bayala, Jules, Ayantunde, Augustine A., Somda, Jacques, Ky-Dembélé, Catherine, Bationo, B. André, Sanogo, Diaminatou, Tougiani, Abasse, Zougmoré, Robert B.

“…Led by ICRAF-WCA/Sahel, the BRAS-PAR project is being implemented by a consortium of National research institutes in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger and Senegal, IUCN, and ILRI.…”
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Annual report 2017: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…CCAFS made considerable progress on the CCAFS SLO target of 11 million more households with improved practices, with some 6.5 million farmers being better serviced by climate-informed advisories (Philippines, Rwanda, Colombia, Senegal – IRRI, IRI, CIAT), receiving climate-smart seed (Ethiopia – Bioversity), or being part of a program that will deliver solar-based irrigation (India – IWMI/WLE), where CCAFS research has informed a USD 21.5 billion investment. …”
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CGIAR Mid Term Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, May 19-23, 1986: Main Conclusions Reached and Decisions Taken by CGIAR Secretariat

“…Sagna, Minister of Rural Development in Senegal, and chair of the WARDA Governing Council, argued that problems discussed in the report could be addressed through a reorganization, with continued CGIAR support. …”
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