16 June 2025
How can farmers play a central role in evaluating new crop varieties? Join us for a webinar on how triadic comparison of technology options (tricot) is transforming on-farm testing in northern Ghana.
Date: Thursday 19 June
Time: 15:00–15:30 (CET)
Summary
This session will be presented by Dr Theophilus Kwabla Tengey, Senior Research Scientist and lead of the Cowpea Improvement Program at CSIR–Savanna Agricultural Research Institute in Ghana. Join to:
– See how tricot enables large-scale, farmer-managed trials across diverse environments.
– Learn how the ClimMob platform helped simplify trial design, data collection, and analysis.
– Hear how 760 farmers helped identify top-performing cowpea, groundnut, sorghum, and millet varieties.
About the 1000FARMS webinar series
Our webinars will highlight the varied projects carried out by our partners, featuring experts, farmers, groundbreaking studies, and discussions on the overall impact of tricot and other farmer-led trials.
The webinars will take place every two weeks, usually on Tuesday or Thursday afternoons (CET), and are open to anyone. The format is a 15-minute presentation followed by 15 minutes of open discussion.
Missed a previous webinar? Find the catch-up videos in the 1000FARMS Community.
