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Ecoregional research in Africa: learning lessons from IITA's Benchmark Area Approach

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0014479705002681
 
Title Ecoregional research in Africa: learning lessons from IITA's Benchmark Area Approach
 
Creator Douthwaite, B
Baker, D
Weise, S
Gockowski, J
Manyong, V M
Keatinge, J D H
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Ecoregional research has the potential to help address some of the huge challenges facing agriculture in developing countries by developing technologies that work under different agro-ecological conditions, and the processes by which these technologies can be adapted to work in other areas with similar conditions. The CGIAR system has been developing ecoregional research as a new paradigm for over a decade. In this paper we evaluate one of the most ambitious of these initiatives called the Benchmark Area Approach (BAA) pioneered by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. We evaluate the BAA against nine good practice criteria for ecoregional research, finding that the approach is delivering, or has the potential to deliver, on all nine. Many of the lessons learnt from this evaluation will be relevant to current and future attempts to undertake co-ordinated multi-locational research for development
 
Publisher Cambridge University Press
 
Date 2005
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3191/1/ExpAgric_41_3_271%E2%80%93298_2005.pdf
Douthwaite, B and Baker, D and Weise, S and Gockowski, J and Manyong, V M and Keatinge, J D H (2005) Ecoregional research in Africa: learning lessons from IITA's Benchmark Area Approach. Experimental Agriculture, 41 (3). pp. 271-298. ISSN 0014-4797