Last week I posted a blog about why agricultural research Centres, programs, projects and even individuals should be adopting a ‘new brand’ of agricultural research for development by making use of various pathways for making their knowledge more available, accessible and applicable. This post...
So we’ve got something to ‘sell’.
But are you going to buy it? Well, I guess that depends on how and how well we ‘sell’ it to you. Right?
If you are a research manager or member of senior management in your research institute, or if you are a researcher doing exciting...
A hot air balloon is another way to travel. As more heat is applied, the air in the balloon warms and expands, making the balloon lift, taking its contents with it into the open air.
I don’t know if this was what the European Union (EU) had in mind when it created OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure...
During the week of 15-18 February 2011, I visited the Africa Rice Center in Cotonou, Benin, and found out that they are doing a lot to make ‘rice advice’ available, accessible and applicable. I also discussed additional pathways to make this vital rice knowledge travel.
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The Rubik’s cube is a three-dimensional puzzle that is solved by using a pivot mechanism to turn the faces independently until each one displays a solid colour (Wikipedia), thereby achieving homogeneity.
At the mini Share Fair on agricultural water management that I facilitated on 3 February...
I recently got in touch with some of the people who took part in the ICT-KM Program’s first two Knowledge Sharing (KS) workshops in 2008. Five people, including myself, answered the same set of questions about the workshop’s impact. It was a revelation to find out the different ways in which these...
Six months after the Knowledge Share Fair Cali, which was held at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia in March 2010, I was contacted by Ruth Junkin, who is currently leading knowledge management (KM) activities in the Agriculture for Basic Needs (A4N) Project* that Catholic...
ICRISAT, the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, sister to the other 14 centers of the CGIAR is holding this week in its headquarters in Hyderabad, India its Annual Research Meeting. Over 150 scientists gathered here from its 6 research locations in Africa and India to...
“Experiments are used by everyone, all the time; whether it’s testing the effects of a drug, or trying to make a new relationship work” (Wikipedia)
The Challenge Program on Water and Food is carrying out an experiment in making the relationship between research and development, often referred...
The Challenge Program on Water and Food of the CGIAR is trying to do something different.
In their words “through the paradigm of water productivity – developing ways to produce more food within limited water availability – it offers a new approach to natural resources management research...
The ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR promotes and supports the use of information and communications technology (ICT) and knowledge management (KM) to improve the effectiveness of the CGIAR System's work on behalf of the poor in developing countries.
