CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals - GLDC

Overview: FP3-3 - Testing, adapting and validating options

FP3-2 - FP3-0


Leader Kumar Shalander, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT
Coleader: Katrien Descheemaeker, Wageningen University & Research Centre - WUR

Team members: 50
Partner organizations: 28

Budget 2025
USD : 0

Activities/Products:  20


  Description
    
In aiming to develop, test and validate options for sustainable intensification and livelihood diversification, CoA3.3 is deploying three groups of activities. Through the first group of activities, the cluster will perform ex-ante and ex-post impact assessments across spatial and temporal scales and sustainability domains. For this, relevant criteria and indicators are being determined. Whereas on the one hand, this exercise is site-specific as the relevance of indicators depends on the context and the involved stakeholders, on the other hand, we also work towards the development of a common framework of principles, criteria and indicators that is applicable across sites and farming systems. Selected GLDC innovations and SI options are being evaluated based on criteria and indicators in the various sustainability domains. The second group of activities brings together modelling approaches to evaluate tradeoffs across domains and across spatial and temporal scales. Special attention is being given to the integration of household-level approaches and landscape level approaches. The modelling tools will also be used in participatory settings to co-design improved farming systems. Part of this activity is the comparison, improvement and testing of the modelling tools. In a third and final set of activities, the aim is to synthesize knowledge and information for targeting gender and nutrition in the development of GLDC options. This links to the other groups of activities, as gender and nutrition related criteria and indicators are being developed and integrated in the assessment frameworks.
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   Key Results
    

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Innovations

TPE and beyond: laying the base for modern geography-specific crop improvement methodologies across CGIAR and partnering institutions

Reporting year: 2020

More than 4,000 smallholder farmers empowered through crop variety technology delivery and trainings via Farmers Producers Organizations in Andhra Pradesh, India

Reporting year: 2020

TPE and beyond: laying the base for modern geography-specific crop improvement methodologies across CGIAR and partnering institutions

Reporting year: 2019

Scaling-up Participatory Research of High Yielding Pigeonpea Hybrids: Enabling the Potential for Increased Productivity of Smallholders Farmers Sharing Best Practices and Improved Seeds

Reporting year: 2018

Bhoosamrudhi: Improving Rural Livelihoods through Innovative Scaling-up of Science-led Participatory Research for Development

Reporting year: 2018

Development and piloting of a comprehensive framework for farming systems sustainability assessment

Reporting year: 2020

Model to assess sustainable intensification in the ‘old cotton basin’ in southern Mali

Reporting year: 2019

Farming system sustainability assessment through mix-methods approach for arid and semi-arid regions

Reporting year: 2019

Five soybean (high yield & large size) and six cowpea genotypes (multi-traits) selected for further integration into cropping systems in Mozambique

Reporting year: 2019

Identification of varieties of groundnut and pigeonpea for intercrops to optimize yields

Reporting year: 2019

Multi-model systems analysis to identify Low Emissions Development Pathways – exploring synergies and trade-offs in Mahbubnagar District, Telangana, India

Reporting year: 2019

Multi-model systems analysis to identify Low Emissions Development Pathways – exploring synergies and trade-offs in Mahbubnagar District, Telangana, India

Reporting year: 2018
  Activities/Products
    
Code Activity/Product Name Leader Co-leader Total Outputs Output types View
FP3-3.1 Crop yield monitoring of dryland cereals and food security in complex smallholder agricultural systems Louise Leroux 1
FP3-3.2 Household bio-economic whole farm model parameterized, tradeoffs/synergies analyzed and deployed successfully for at least 3 contrasting farming systems in semiarid south India evaluating climate smart interventions and providing pathways for doubling farmer income. Kumar Shalander Swamikannu Nedumaran 2
FP3-3.3 Managing functional biodiversity and crop pests Valerie Soti Thierry Brévault 3
FP3-3.4 Current crop-livestock production and marketing systems characterized for selected locations in Niger/Burkina Faso using past studies, existing survey data and gap fill through additional FGDs with the stakeholders for parameterizing whole farm models to simulate farm productivity considering farm income and gender Vincent Bado Kumar Shalander 5
FP3-3.5 Asset ownership in the semi-arid tropics: a gendered analysis from the VDSA data PAdmaja Ravula 1
FP3-3.6 Identify criteria and indicators for analyzing sustainability that could be applicable across the farming systems in the regions. Finding common and region-specific indicators, and then quantifying them for a set of GLDC-specific options Kumar Shalander Quang Bao Le 3
FP3-3.9 Identifying gender disaggregated farmers’ information needs to integrate the use of improved GLDC varieties to improve farming system performance Patrice Savadogo Quang Bao Le 2
FP3-3.13 Analyzing the impacts of GLDC innovations on the food and nutrition security in DRYDEV sites Catherine Dembele Patrice Savadogo 2
FP3-3.14 Analyzing the impact of GLDC innovations for managing abiotic and biotic stresses in the agro-ecosystems Jules Bayala Quang Bao Le 2
FP3-3.16 Co-design GLDC options for improving farmers' livelihoods and agro-ecosystem resilience in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Catherine Dembele 1
FP3-3.17 Resilience capacities, agricultural diversification, food and nutrition security in Zimbabwe Conrad Murendo 0
FP3-3.19 Nutrition messaging through adolescents using ICT/mobile phones for GLDC crops grown in the region in selected tribal regions of Telangana PAdmaja Ravula Ram Dhulipala 1
FP3-3.20 Promote crop-livestock integration at farm level for enhancing resilience and farm income in WCA Myriam Adam Katrien Descheemaeker 4
FP3-3.21 Understanding the climate and market risks farmers face in SSA and SA to co-design better farm-level interventions Anthony Whitbread Sunita Choudhary 3
FP3-3.23 Development of modelling tools to analyses climate risk for cropping systems in SA Jana Kholova Sunita Choudhary 1
FP3-3.24 Crop design for doubled up groundnut and pigeonpea systems Amos Ngwira Jana Kholova 1
FP3-3.25 Complementarity of three main farming components (crop-tree-livestock) for improved household nutrition in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger Catherine Dembele 2
FP3-3.26  Impact of GLDC farming systems on NRM and health Jules Bayala Catherine Dembele 1
FP3-3.27 Spatial distribution of cropping pattern to scale-up sustainable farming systems in Niger Mohammed Irshad Ahmed Irshad Kumar Shalander 0
FP3-3.28 Feminization, women's empowerment and nutrition outcomes PAdmaja Ravula Kumar Shalander 2
  Projects
    
Acronym Project Title Year Section Leader Center Budget Start Date End Date View
  Outcomes and Impact
    
Code Outcomes and Impact Type Indicators View
3.3.a Tested, adapted and validated options applied for sustainable intensification and livelihood diversification by farmers development outcome 0
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