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Vendor Business School by Wamai, Ken

“…The modules will be delivered through small group meetings but with opportunities for individual coaching sessions. …”
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Some notes on a workshop on a Feed Resource Assessment in Smallholder Systems by Adie, Aberra

“…A small group met for three days with the aim of developing a simple tool for characterizing the smallholder feeding system in different environments. …”
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Supporting local planning and innovation in the Nile BDC—group feedback by Tucker, Josephine

“…In this video, Josie Tucker (ODI) reports from small group discussions on ways to support more flexible and participatory implementation of rainwater management and innovation at the local and regional levels.…”
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Developing national and local innovation platforms in the NIle BDC - group feedback by Swaans, Cornelis P.M.

“…In this video, Kees Swaans (ILRI) reports from small group discussions on issues related to the establishment of 'innovation platforms'—what we envisage for national and local platforms.…”
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Building effective partnerships in the Nile BDC—group feedback by Amede, Tilahun

“…In this video, Tilahun Amede (ILRI) reports from small group discussions on issues of partnership in the Program: How do we streamline, integrate, and coordinate the engagement of the various NBDC projects with national research partners?…”
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Gender-transformative food and nutrition training workshop report - Embu County by Lutomia, Cosmas Kweyu, Nyamolo, Victor, Muriithi, Catherine, Ketema, Dessalegn, Nyaga, John Ndwiga, Njeru, Patrick Ndwiga, Nchanji, Eileen

“…Using local examples, role-plays and small group discussions, participants mapped who buys, cooks and eats, identified seasonal gaps and taboos, and discussed fairer sharing. …”
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A case study of strategies for fostering international, interdisciplinary research by Halvorsen, Kathleen E., Knowlton, Jessie L., Mayer, A.S., Phifer, Colin C., Martins de Souza, Tatiana, Pischke, Erin C., Propato, Tamara Sofía, Cavigliasso, Pablo, García, C., Chiappe, Marta, Eastmond, Amarella, Licata, Julián Andrés, Kuhlberg, Mark, Medeiros, R., Picasso Risso, Valentin, Mendez, G., Primo, P., Frado, A., Veron, Santiago Ramón, Dunn, J.L.

“…We demonstrate that the literature on accelerated sustainability transitions and small group team creation, development, and management holds valuable lessons for the success of ID teams.…”
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Epi on Safari: A training course report by International Livestock Research Institute

“…The course was designed for a small group of newly recruited postdoctoral fellows and graduate students attached to the Food Safety and Zoonoses program of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). …”
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Contributing to evidence-based policy making in the Nile BDC—group feedback by Puskur, Ranjitha

“…In this video, Ranjitha Puskur (ILRI) reports from small group discussions on how ways to ensure our evidence is credible, relevant. practical and operationally useful, how and what kind of feedback processes and networks should we develop to communicate our messages, and how we go about understanding policy better.…”
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Gender-Responsive product profile development tool. Workshop Report. November 12-13. Ithaca, USA by CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas, CGIAR Gender and Breeding Initiative

“…A small group of breeders, gender specialists and other breeding team members met for two days at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY in November of 2018 to review the first two prototype tools developed by the Gender in Breeding Initiative (GBI) and jointly work toward their refinement for the next steps of validation with case studies. …”
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Learning Groups: refining technologies and social processes for climate resilient agriculture by Méndez, Kharla Vianca S., Vidallo, Rene R., Rosimo, Magnolia M., Angeles, Darlyn R, Bernardo, Eisen Bernard, Gonsalves, Julian Francis

“…Action research, in both municipalities, showed that knowledge generation through a small group of farmer innovators is an effective strategy in the identification and refinement of appropriate technologies. …”
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Partnerships for tropical conservation by Vermeulen, Sonja J., Sheil, Douglas

“…Despite considerable rhetoric about local participation the vast majority of conservation initiatives continue to be devised and controlled by a small group of powerful, external voices. What is widely overlooked is that local people often have positive conservation goals and preferences. …”
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Horizontal evaluation: Stimulating social learning among peers by Thiele, Graham, Devaux, A., Velasco, C., Manrique, K.

“…The workshop combines presentations about the methodology with field visits, small group work and plenary discussions. It elicits and compares the perceptions of the two groups concerning the strengths and weaknesses of the methodology; it provides practical suggestions for improvement, which may often be put to use immediately; it promotes social learning among the different groups involved; and it stimulates further experimentation with and development of the methodology in other settings.…”
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An evaluation of groundwater institutions in India: a property rights perspective by Ananda, J., Aheeyar, Mohamed M. M.

“…The findings indicate that there is much scope for enhancing the ‘small group groundwater sharing’ governed by social regulatory measures. …”
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Participatory workshop for co-designing innovations and interventions: Towards inclusive growth, employment, and income opportunities in the coffee value chain of Honduras by Ceballos Sierra, Federico, Michalscheck, Mirja, Wiegel, Jennifer Rebecca, Minh, Thai Thi, Colindres, Mirian

“…The workshop engaged participants through plenary discussions, short online surveys that were accessible via QR-codes and through small-group discussions where participants self-selected based on interest. …”
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Relative preferences for soil conservation incentives among smallholder farmers: Evidence from Malawi by Marenya, Paswel, Smith, Vincent H., Nkonya, Ephraim M.

“…Prior to implementing the choice experiments, the farmers participated in a workshop utilizing small group‐based dynamic learning games that demonstrated how index‐based crop insurance contracts function. …”
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Pitching gender responsive agricultural solutions to science editors by Metcalfe, Jennifer

“…After the panel, participants will have an opportunity to pitch their story ideas (focused on gender-responsive agricultural research and impacts of that research) and gain feedback in small-group clinics. Session objectives include: • Increase awareness of what the media needs to make a good story about gender-responsive research. • Develop understanding of how to pitch a story to different types of media. • Provide opportunities for participants to pitch their story idea and gain individual feedback.…”
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Private sector stakeholders workshop on reviewing the draft: Nigeria agricultural strategy by Olaniyan, Babatunde

“…This report summarizes the presentations, comments, main conclusions of the small group discussions, and recommendations and suggestions for moving the sector forward.…”
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Genetic diversity in an African plantain core collection using AFLP and RAPD markers by Ude, G., Pillay, M., Ogundiwin, E., Tenkouano, A.

“…The AFLP-derived clusters indicated closer relationships between similar inflorescence types than the RAPD-derived clusters. A small group of cultivars from Cameroon were separated from the bulk of other plantains, suggesting that Cameroon may harbour accessions with useful or rare genes for widening the genetic base of breeding populations derived from the plantains. …”
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Impacts in Uganda of rising global food prices: The role of diversified staples and limited price transmission by Benson, Todd, Mugarura, Samuel, Wanda, Kelly

“…Some population groups in Uganda are vulnerable to rising food prices, however, primarily those for whom maize is an important staple, including those dependent upon humanitarian relief and the urban poor. Only a relatively small group of Ugandan households will benefit directly and immediately from rising food prices—the significant net sellers of food crops constituting between 12% and 27% of the population. …”
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