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Improving the Impact of Climate Information Services in Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands

Published by: IDS

Climate variability and change are affecting millions of poor people in Kenya, particularly in arid and semi-arid lands. Significant investments are being made in developing Climate Information Services (CIS) which are tailored to the needs of pastoralists and agro-pastoralists and aim to help them adapt to the impact of climate change in these regions.

A New Professionalism for Agricultural Research for Development

Published by: Taylor and Francis

There have been repeated calls for a ‘new professionalism’ for carrying out agricultural research for development since the 1990s....

Moving Beyond Co-Construction of Knowledge to Enable Self‑Determination

It is increasingly recognised that co-construction of knowledge which brings together researcher-derived understanding, with local,...

Identifying Opportunities to Improve Governance of Aquatic Agricultural Systems through Participatory Action Research

Challenges of governance often constitute critical obstacles to efforts to equitably improve livelihoods in social-ecological systems. Yet often, these challenges go unspoken, or are viewed as fixed parts of the context, beyond the scope of influence of agricultural, development, or natural resource management initiatives.

Getting Beneath the Surface in Program Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation: Learning from Use of Participatory Action Research and Theory of Change in the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems

Published by: Action Research

In this paper, we share learning from an agricultural research program that used participatory action research and theory of change to foster learning and support transformative change in aquatic agricultural systems.