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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26 June 2023
Establishing the linkage between eba’s instrumental and sensory descriptive profiles and their correlation with consumer preferences: implications for cassava breeding
This study aimed to define the critical quality traits of gari and eba, measure their heritability, define medium and high throughput instrumental methods for use by breeders, and link the traits with consumer preferences.
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