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Agricultural credit and start-up funding for small-scale irrigation cooperatives — approaches

Agricultural credit and start-up funding for small-scale irrigation … [Mali]

Providing lowland farmer cooperatives with self-managed, self-renewing financial resources for the purpose of facilitating members’ access to farming inputs.

Compiler: Dieter Nill
09/24/2014 middernag

Locally sourced farming trainers: the farmer resource persons system — approaches

Locally sourced farming trainers: the farmer resource persons … [Mali]

A network of farmer resource persons (FRPs) is built up to provide advice and training according to the on-the-ground needs of farmers

Compiler: Dieter Nill
09/24/2014 middernag

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Meeting the differing needs of farmers in a … [Mali]

This practice makes it possible to bring actors with differing interests around the same table to discuss the ways in which the scheme’s facilities and lands will be accessed and exploited.

Compiler: Dieter Nill
09/24/2014 middernag

Public audits as a civil oversight mechanism for project implementation — approaches

Public audits as a civil oversight mechanism for … [Mali]

Periodic public discussion meetings where elected members of the commune, local organisation managers and the community can publically discuss the implementation and management of a project.

Compiler: Dieter Nill
09/24/2014 middernag

Local agreements on the management of small-scale irrigation facilities — approaches

Local agreements on the management of small-scale irrigation … [Mali]

Local agreements aim to prevent and consensually manage conflicts on a site and to manage natural resources to ensure they are used rationally and sustainably.

Compiler: Dieter Nill
09/24/2014 middernag

Participatory Learning and Action Research for Integrated Rice Management (PLAR-IRM) — approaches

Participatory Learning and Action Research for Integrated Rice … [Mali]

An approach to develop farmers’ capacities to observe and analyse their rice management and growing practices; and to identify major constraints, then test, adapt and innovate with ways to improve integrated rice management.

Compiler: Dieter Nill
09/24/2014 middernag

Diversifying women’s income streams through market gardening [Mali]

Establishing vegetable plots for women enables them to increase their incomes and improve their health by increasing and diversifying agricultural production and improving the nutritional quality of their food.

Compiler: Dieter Nill
09/24/2014 middernag

Identifying and prioritizing scheme sites using a territorial, multi-stakeholder approach — approaches

Identifying and prioritizing scheme sites using a territorial, … [Mali]

The desired objectives are to identify the priority actions for investment that have been agreed by local actors within the framework of the pastoral scheme, and to develop lowland areas.

Compiler: Dieter Nill
09/24/2014 middernag

Delegating the management of facilities to users [Mali]

Promote the sustainability and cost effectiveness of schemes by setting up management delegation systems that enable local authorities to entrust infrastructure owned by the territorial community to groups of local farmers.

Compiler: Dieter Nill
09/24/2014 middernag

Creating scale models for the development of lowland areas and the participation of the farming community — approaches

Creating scale models for the development of lowland … [Mali]

Creating models when developing lowland areas encourages the different actors involved to enter into negotiations and participate in decision-making on the design and farming of a lowland area.

Compiler: Dieter Nill
09/24/2014 middernag

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