12 February 2025

Webinar: “Participatory crop evaluation: Tricot trials on cassava and sweet potato in Nigeria”, 20 February

Join us for the third webinar in our series where Dr Tessy Madu will give a presentation on “Participatory crop evaluation: Tricot trials on cassava and sweet potato in Nigeria”.

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11 February 2025

Amplifying tricot farmers voices and stories: Reflections from participatory video techniques in Nigeria

Originally posted on IITA. Participatory research is not new, but is becoming more inclusive and collaborative, with the introduction of participatory video techniques, a method that has shown to elevate the voices of farmers, enabling two-way communication between researchers, farmers, and other rural community members. The IITA Roots, Tubers, and Banana gender team was trained in this method in […]

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31 January 2025

Webinar: “Engaging rural youth in data-driven plant breeding”, 4 February

Join the second webinar in our series where Violet Lasdun will be giving a presentation on “Engaging rural youth in data-driven plant breeding”.

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17 January 2025

Webinar series highlighting projects by 1000FARMS partners starting 21 January

A webinar series highlighting projects by 1000FARMS partners will start 21 January, with the first by Gospel Edughaen, on “Social dynamics associated with implementing mother-baby and tricot participatory trials on selected cassava varieties in Nigeria”.

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25 November 2024

Changing perspectives: Putting Participatory Video into practice in Rwanda

Originally published on the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. Participatory video is a technique that puts cameras in the hands of farmers. Researchers Melissa Bonilla, Maria Delfine, Charles Mwizerwa, Rhys Manners and Anna Muller share how this approach can provide insights for more inclusive agriculture.  By: Melissa Bonilla, Maria Delfine, Charles Mwizerwa, Rhys Manners […]

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13 November 2024

IITA and NRCRI execute maiden monitoring and inspection of tricot on-farm cassava trials with the National Variety Release Committee in Nigeria

Originally published on IITA. We have prepared a two-part blog explaining the “tricot” method and detailing the approach for on-farm testing for variety release (Part 1) and featuring the monitoring and inspection part with partners (Part 2). Part 2 details the initial monitoring and inspection of tricot trials in collaboration with the National Varieties Release […]

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06 November 2024

Joint cassava IITA-NRCRI breeding team use the tricot approach for on-farm testing for variety release

Originally published on IITA. We have prepared a two-part blog explaining the “tricot” method and detailing the approach for on-farm testing for variety release (Part 1) and featuring the monitoring and inspection part with partners (Part 2). Part 1 introduces the tricot approach for on-farm testing for cassava varieties. The cassava breeding stage gate process […]

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08 May 2024

Call for proposals: 1000FARMS catalytic small projects 2024

The call for catalytic small projects supports learning about tricot & implementation of the approach in a low-risk way. Find out more and apply.

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10 July 2023

Call for proposals: 1000FARMS catalytic small projects 2023

1000FARMS has funding available to support 5–6 catalytic projects in 2023 for up to a maximum of USD 20,000. Find out more and how to apply.

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10 July 2023

Climate variability indices for ecological and crop models in R: the climatrends package

The package climatrends aims to provide the methods in R to compute precipitation and temperature indices that serve as input for climate and crop models, trends in climate change and applied ecology.

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