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Item Increasing irrigation benefits and sustainability by integrating fisheries.(Brochure, 2019) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; WorldFish; International Water Management InstituteWater managers shouldn’t be resistant to integrating fisheries into irrigation systems. Rather, it’s an opportunity to sustain the benefits of irrigation projects and, at the same time, increase fish production and reduce conflict between water users.Item WLE Program Brochure 2018/19: Connected thinking, compelling solutions(Brochure, 2018) CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and EcosystemsThrough connected thinking and compelling solutions, WLE’s research-for-development work considers not only the field, but also the landscape and system level impacts of agriculture: how decisions around soil, water, biodiversity and people interact and impact the big picture. This program brochure outline's WLE's approach, research themes and impacts.Item Solutions for Thriving Ecosystems: 2017-2018 Research Highlights.(Poster, 2018) CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and EcosystemsWhen you picture a “thriving ecosystem,” what comes to mind? Your inner eye may turn to images of free-flowing rivers snaking through lush deltas and farm plots heavy with prospering crops. Sadly, the degradation of ecosystems and natural resources is proceeding like never before. Pressure on land and water, pollution from pesticide overuse, and changing weather patterns are among the many factors that impact the livelihoods and food security of millions. The poorest and most marginalized bear the brunt of these burdens. But it doesn’t have to be this way. At the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE), we connect global scientists to find ways for sustainable agriculture to add value to the environment, while also delivering sufficient food, nutrition and income. Many new opportunities for producing safe and nutritious food in thriving ecosystems are emerging. We are developing a portfolio of solutions across ecosystems, sectors and scales—and I invite you to explore some of them on this poster. What they share is the recognition that our ecosystems are intrinsically interlinked. Water use upstream affects food production downstream, while pesticide use on one crop decreases pollination of another. We know that these links exist, and finding ways to address trade-offs and synergies is increasingly urgent for developing the right solutions for sustainable agriculture. A thriving ecosystem is also highly reliant on the policies and institutions that govern it. We must ensure equitable access to knowledge and resources for women, men and marginalized communities. We also need to build capacity to navigate complex uncertainties. Now is time for transformational change. At WLE, we bring together researchers, farmers, implementers and policy makers to ensure innovative technical and policy solutions are developed and implemented. We believe in solutions that provide these partners with the right incentives for change. Only then can the most promising solutions be scaled for the widespread benefit of ecosystems and the people who rely on them. To succeed, the world must move forward on agriculture solutions that don’t just solve one problem, but that are able to consider ecosystems as a whole. Connected, we will Thrive! Izabella Koziell Program Director CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and EcosytemsItem Enhancing SOC sequestration: myth or reality in Africa?(Presentation, 2017-06) Sommer, RolfItem Where there's muck there's gold(Brochure, 2017) CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and EcosystemsFacts about Fortifer • It has been demonstrated to be an effective, safe and potentially sought after fertilizer for a wide range of agricultural activities (based on scientific analysis, extensive field trials and farmer engagement). • It is a reliable source of nutrients and organic matter for improving farmer’s soils. • It is a reliable source of nutrients and organic matter for improving farmer’s soils. • It is already approved for use by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and is a registered trademark in Ghana. • It is produced through a process that safely handles • and disposes of both human waste, collected from both household and public toilets (fecal sludge), and organic waste. • It is enriched with minerals, and is free of live microorganisms (pathogens) that could otherwise cause disease. • Production and sale of Fortifer can be a profitable business. It is now being produced at a large, purpose-built fecal sludge recycling plant in Tema, through a public-private partnership.Item Results of study of genetic diversity of pistachio and replenishment of its breeding genepool in Central Asia(Conference Paper, 2016) Turdieva, M.K.Item Local diversity of fruit, nut trees and grapevine as basis of organic horticulture development in Uzbekistan(Conference Paper, 2016) Turdieva, M.K.; Baymetov, K.I.; Kayimov, A.This paper (in Russian) discusses the possibility of development of organic fruit growing in Uzbekistan using rich varietal diversity of local fruit crops.Item Rice farming system management for pest and disease control in Yuanyang Hani terrace(Conference Paper, 2016) Shan, Z.; Wang, Y.; Jarvis, Devra I.; Bai, K.; Colangel, P.; Holzinger, M.; Lu, C.Item Conservation and utilization of crop germplasm resources in ethnic communities of China(Conference Paper, 2016) Huang, W.; Jarvis, D.; Bai, K.; Long, C.Item Can commercialization save rare landraces in small ethnic communities?(Conference Paper, 2016) Long, C.; Bai, K.; Jarvis, D.; Wang, Y.; Zhang, Z.; He, Z.Item The use of crop genetic diversity as an alternative solution to pest and disease management and sustainable agriculture in Southwest of China(Conference Paper, 2016) Bai, K.; Jarvis, Devra I.; Wang, Y.; Long, C.; Lu, C.; Zhang, E.; Peng, H.; Wu, J.; Yang, Y.; Zhang, Z.; Murray, T.D.; Colangeloj, P.; Brown, A.H.D.Item GnpIS-Ephesis, the phenotypic data integration platform for INRA networks experimental data – data discovery and dataset building use cases(Conference Paper, 2016) Pommier, C.; Alaux, M.; Letellier, T.; Michotey, Célia; Cornut, Guillaume; Lebreton, A.; Labernadiere, M.; Laine, M.; Arnaud, Elizabeth; Adam-Blondon, Anne-Françoise; Quesneville, H.Phenotype data are collected in trials conducted by experimental facilities including multilocal field networks and high throughput phenotyping facilities in controlled environments or fields. A given germplasm panel can therefore have been phenotyped in very different conditions and using very different protocols. As a result, a collection of phenotype datasets is usually highly heterogeneous and hard to integrate. GnpIS is an integrative information system dedicated to plant and their pathogens. The integration of heterogeneous phenotypic datasets implies identifying common pivot resources like germplasm, observation variables following the Cropontology model, experimental locations and years. GnpIS allows performing data discovery on those data, which can lead to datasets building through the GnpIS-Ephesis application. GnpIS-Ephesis allows creating datasets to study the relations between yield, including its components, stress and disease tolerance from public provided by the INRA Wheat Network Phenotypic. It includes fifteen years of observations on eleven experimental sites. Those study datasets can be narrowed from a maximum number of observations on several years and locations to a minimal dataset on comparable locations/years pairs to reduce the environmental variability. This variability can be evaluated thanks to reference germplasms. Quercus, Populus or Vitis public data available in GnpIS-Ephesis allows to study adaptation to climate change. For instance, a dataset including phenology variables like budbreak or flowering can be extracted and used as input for statistical analysis tools or model to evaluate adaptability of several hundreds of vitis variety.Item Reusing the NCBO BioPortal technology for agronomy to build AgroPortal(Conference Paper, 2016) Jonquet, C.; Toulet, A.; Arnaud, Elizabeth; Aubin, S.; Dzale-Yeumo, E.; Emonet, V.; Graybeal, J.; Musen, M.A.; Pommier, C.; Larmande, PierreMany vocabularies and ontologies are produced to represent and annotate agronomic data. By reusing the NCBO BioPortal technology, we have already designed and implemented an advanced prototype ontology repository for the agronomy domain. We plan to turn that prototype into a real service to the community. The AgroPortal project aims at reusing the scientific outcomes and experience of the biomedical domain in the context of plant, agronomic, food, environment (perhaps animal) sciences. We offer an ontology portal which features ontology hosting, search, versioning, visualization, comment, recommendation, enables semantic annotation, as well as storing and exploiting ontology alignments. All of these within a fully semantic web compliant infrastructure. The AgroPortal specifically pays attention to respect the requirements of the agronomic community in terms of ontology formats (e.g., SKOS, trait dictionaries) or supported features. In this paper, we present our prototype as well as preliminary outputs of four driving agronomic use cases. With the experience acquired in the biomedical domain and building atop of an already existing technology, we think that AgroPortal offers a robust and stable reference repository that will become highly valuable for the agronomic domain.Item AgroPortal: a proposition for ontology-based services in the agronomic domain(Poster, 2016) Jonquet, C.; Dzale-Yeumo, E.; Arnaud, Elizabeth; Larmande, Pierre; Toulet, A.; Laporte, Marie-AngéliqueItem Seed systems of rice and finger millet in Nepal, between formality and informality(Poster, 2016) Wyss, R.; Guenat, D.V.; López Noriega, Isabel; Gauchan, D.; Upadhya, D.In Nepal, more than 90% of cereal seed flows from informal systems and there are regions and groups of farmers that are not connected at all to any seed networks with external seed supply. Nepal's agricultural policies and formal institutions are promoting the development of the formal seed system. However, knowledge gaps exist on the opportunities and challenges for smallholder farmers when formal seed systems are becoming accessible. This study identified impacts of different seed systems on agrobiodiversity, seed value chains and livelihood of smallholder farmers in Ghanpokhara, a mid-hill region of Nepal. A survey was conducted in 40 farm households (rice and finger millet), numerous key informants and experts involved in Nepal's seed systems were interviewed and extensive literature review was done. Four different seed systems were identified: the formal system, the intermediary system, the informal system and the no seed supply system (except local seeds). The latter was found in Ghanpokhara for rice and finger millet. Although (seed and crop) markets can be found not too far away, farmers in the study site appear to be locked off from the formal seed system. Their interest to purchase new seed seems to be high, but their awareness about potential benefits of quality seed is low, and they have limited access to information and new seed. The present research also found that varietal diversity along the continuum of seed systems is highest in informal seed systems. Besides numerous benefits, increasingly formal seed systems bear also disadvantages (and risks) for small-holder farmers: higher costs of input, dependency from formal seed sources and changes in crop genetic diversity, among others. The recommendations derived from this study are: extension service should be promoted in remote areas, more resources should be made available for farmers' training on seed production, selection and storage techniques. Furthermore, the organisation in farmer groups for seed production should be facilitated (socially inclusive) in order to produce good quality seed of farmer preferred varieties locally and in sufficient quantity.Item A Guide for participatory mapping of ecosystem services in multiuse agricultural landscapes: How to conduct a rapid spatial assessment of ecosystem services(Manual, 2016) Braslow, Juliet; Cordingley, Justine E.; Snyder, Katherine A.This guide presents a step-by-step approach in using a participatory mapping method with community members to rapidly identify and map ecosystem services and changes in their supply across multiuse agricultural landscapes. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies and researchers can use this approach to learn from communities about how they use and access natural resources. This activity uses a landscape approach to help land management practitioners understand the ways in which people depend on and access ecosystem services and how changes in their availability impact livelihoods across the landscape. The mapping exercise involves using free, high resolution satellite imagery from Google Earth Pro, which presents an aerial view of the community in fine detail. Participants from the community in question identify key features on the map, which help them to understand the extent of the area the map represents. They are then led through a discussion on their resources such as water, livestock, cultivated land and uncultivated land. Through the discussion participants identify: (1) where resources are located on the landscape and how they are used; (2) changes in the supply of resources and how these changes are impacting livelihoods; and (3) restrictions to access, conflicts over use and management of each resource in question. Mapping with different groups, such as men, women and youth can show which resources are most important to different groups as well as differences in access and perceptions of change. The mapping exercise is intended to take between two and a half and three hours: including introductory and concluding discussions can add on another two hours. This guide presents examples and tips from mapping exercises that tested this approach in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania. We outline how this mapping exercise could be used in research, development and planning. Additionally, this guide includes appendices that contain: (1) a detailed explanation of how to create maps for each activity; (2) a set of materials that have been developed to accompany the mapping exercise; (3) steps for digitizing the maps (4) case study examples; and (5) additional sources of information.Item Resource recovery and reuse report series(Brochure, 2016) CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and EcosystemsItem Agriculture 2.0: towards a global revolution for sustainability(Brief, 2015) CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and EcosystemsItem Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability(Journal Article, 2017-02) Rockström, Johan; Williams, J.; Daily, G.; Noble, A.D.; Matthews, Nathaniel; Gordon, L.; Wetterstrand, H.; DeClerck, Fabrice A.J.; Shah, M.; Steduto, P.; Fraiture, Charlotte de; Hatibu, N.; Unver, O.; Bird, J.; Sibanda, Lindiwe Majele; Smith, J.There is an ongoing debate on what constitutes sustainable intensification of agriculture (SIA). In this paper, we propose that a paradigm for sustainable intensification can be defined and translated into an operational framework for agricultural development. We argue that this paradigm must now be defined—at all scales—in the context of rapidly rising global environmental changes in the Anthropocene, while focusing on eradicating poverty and hunger and contributing to human wellbeing. The criteria and approach we propose, for a paradigm shift towards sustainable intensification of agriculture, integrates the dual and interdependent goals of using sustainable practices to meet rising human needs while contributing to resilience and sustainability of landscapes, the biosphere, and the Earth system. Both of these, in turn, are required to sustain the future viability of agriculture. This paradigm shift aims at repositioning world agriculture from its current role as the world’s single largest driver of global environmental change, to becoming a key contributor of a global transition to a sustainable world within a safe operating space on Earth.Item Local community involvement vital in managing watersheds(News Item, 2016) International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics