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| Building knowledge - editorial | 4-5
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| ILEIA editorial team |
| In this issue of the LEISA Magazine we look at how knowledge about LEISA concepts is currently generated, shared and used by a variety of people working towards improved livelihoods in rural areas. We... |  |
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| Bridging the gaps between researchers' and farmers' realities | 6-8
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| Jon Hellin, Dagoberto Flores Valazquez, Mauricio Bellon, Lone Badstue |
| Using participatory maize research in Mexico as an example, this article analyses how and why research organisations encourage farmers' involvement and participatory research - what is the purpose of... | |
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| Improving service delivery in Yunnan, China | 9-11
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| Shen Shicai, Andreas Wilkes |
| In Gongshan County, Yunnan, China,livestock plays a central role in villagers’ livelihoods. But many villages experience problems in animal raising, so in 2003, the Centre for Biodiversity and Indigen... | |
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| Better livestock management in Guatemala | 12-13
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| Maricel Piniero, Danilo Pezo, Jorge Cruz |
| Working closely with farmer groups of different sizes in Central America, the project described in this article was aimed at rehabilitating degraded pastureland. Various participatory processes were f... | |
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| Documenting, validating and scaling-up local innovations | 14-15
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| Florent Okry, Paul Van Mele |
| This article describes a project in West Africa aiming to find ways to get local innovations accepted into the formal research and development agenda. Representatives from four countries gathered and ... | |
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| From piloting to scaling-up | 16-17
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| Dindo Campilan, T L Lama, S R Ghimire, Oscar Hidalgo |
| Potato is an important food crop in Nepal. But average yields are very low, and successful production faces many difficulties: bacterial wilt disease, for example, can result in losses of up to 90 per... | |
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| Change through shared learning | 18-19
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| Mark Lundy |
| Learning Alliances are processes undertaken by a range of organisations who come together to share and adapt good practices in research and development in specific contexts and on specific topics. Div... | |
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| In search of new sources of protein | 20-21
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| Hans Peter Reinders |
| This article is a good example of how participatory processes can often bring unexpected but equally useful and interesting results. Farmers near Iquitos, Peru, began some PTD with beans, but after tw... | |
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| Improving pig feeding systems in Vietnam | 22-23
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| Mai Thach Hoanh, Nguyen The Yen, Pham Ngoc Thach, Nguyen Thi Tinh, Dai Peters |
| Raising pigs is a common income-generating activity in Vietnam, and this long term collaborative project looked at improving sweet potato feeding systems. Various PTD activities were carried out, duri... | |
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| Controlling ticks and influencing policy | 24-25
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| Ronald Samuel Lutalo, William Critchley |
| Evelyna Tibemanya decided to try using tephrosia to keep ticks off her pigs. After coming up with an effective recipe, she has since shared her innovation with many others, and her idea has spread loc... | |
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| Old skills and new ideas in Macedonia | 26-27
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| Viktor Janev |
| The author describes how he discovered farmers in his home country were experimenting and innovating, often using skills or knowledge from previous jobs. Three examples are presented and although many... | |
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| Local and "modern" innovations: what interests whom? | 28-29
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| Hailu Araya, Yohannes GebreMichael |
| At an exhibition in Mekelle, Ethiopia in 2006, smallholders' farming technologies were displayed side by side with "modern" technologies developed by research or private enterprises. The rea... | |
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| Thinking together | 30-31
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| Petra Bakewell-Stone |
| Creating a shared vision is one way of building the capacity of organisations or communities to adapt and thrive. This article describes how a vision for the organic sector in Tanzania was arrived at,... | |
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| The Kamayoq in Peru: farmer-to-farmer extension and experimentation | 32-34
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| Jon Hellin, Dagoberto Flores Valazquez, Carlos De La Torre, Javier Coello, Daniel Rodriguez |
| One of the most effective ways to address farmers’ needs is through a farmer-to-farmer extension approach that also encourages farmer experimentation. This is clear from Practical Action’s work in Per... | |
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| Field notes: Identifying and cataloguing farmer innovations | 35
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| Ruth Ayikaikai Tagoe |
| This Field Note describes how a field extentionist from the Ministry of Agriculture in Ghana started to identify and catalogue farmer innovations in southern Ghana. More than 50 cases were gathered, w... | |
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| Sources | 36-37
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| Networking | 38
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| New books | 39
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| Chain of innovations | 40
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| Hailu Araya, Sue Edwards |
| The success of a nearby project stimulated a farmer in Ethiopia to also rehabilitate his land by building check dams and planting trees in the gully. After three years the farmer, Woldu GebreWahid, ha... | |
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