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Plantwise: A new CABI product to help poor farmers

Published on 28th Oct 2011

Plantwise,  conceived and led by CABI, is a global alliance oPlantwisef donors and other partners ready to provide either content support for the knowledge bank (content partners) or diagnostic services support (clinical partners). 

The aim of Plantwise is to provide poor farmers in developing countries with better access to the advice and information needed to help them increase food security and improve their livelihoods by losing less of what they grow due to plant health problems. This will be achieved through expansion of the existing plant clinic network established by CABI and supported by the creation of a global knowledge bank of information on plant health, pests and diseases. Plantwise is a global programme, comprised of an integrated set of projects and activities. 

The strategy of using plant clinics, supported by a global knowledge bank will be implemented alongside programmes of stakeholder engagement, which seek to strengthen plant health systems in target countries. The approach aims to be scalable within and across countries. Over the coming 5 years it will seek to develop approaches to ensure the sustainability of plant clinics as integral parts of national plant health systems, funded within the countries where they operate.

Successful implementation of the Plantwise strategy will:

● Improve farmer livelihoods and food security, reducing pre-and post-harvest crop losses
● Deliver improved crop health, quality and yields
● Build capacity and local knowledge
● Create a unique global public good in the knowledge bank
● Enable existing extension services to meet farmer needs more effectively
● Improve extension materials, to offer valid, environmentally-sustainable, impartial advice
● Publish validated data, captured to agreed standards and approved for publication
● Provide reliable, consolidated and geo-specific, value-added data

In order to ensure the success of  Plantwise , collaboration with a wide-range of stakeholders and partners is required, to include: the donors investing in Plantwise; organizations implementing clinics on the ground and the staff trained as plant doctors; researchers and policy makers working in plant protection agencies, ministries of agriculture, academia and business; and partners providing content for the knowledge bank. The development and management of these relationships will form a key part of its strategy to develop fully integrated systems of plant health, incorporating the plant clinics that are established.

AVRDC's "Feedback from the Field" Facebook page offers new vegetable knowledge source

Published on 10th Jan 2011

On AVRDC’s Feedback from the Field Facebook page, hosted by the GlobalTechnology Dissemination group, you can see how farmers are using and adapting different technologies for their specific needs, from growing sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea) as a barrier to keep whitefly away from chili pepper in Indonesia to sun-drying tomatoes in Uzbekistan.

"Feedback from the Field" provides information of vegetable production and consumption constraints from the farmers and researchers around the world. Everybody to share with us news of anything urgent or interesting from the field.

Global Map of Horticultural Development Projects

Horticulture CRSP and The Global Horticulture Initiative are mapping horticultural development projects in order to populate an online resource that enables funding agencies and project creators to learn about existing projects, find potential linkages and identify areas of need.

The maps of current projects will enable donors, researchers and development workers to find out who is active, build collaborations and create complementary projects. The maps of completed projects will provide a better understanding of what work has been done in a given country or region. The intent is not only to provide an overview, but also to enable users to access detailed information on individual projects, seek out past project implementers and learn about what worked and what did not.

Please help us improve this resource by sending us information about your horticultural projects in the developing world. Please visit http://hortcrsp.ucdavis.edu/main/projectsurvey.html and fill out our short survey for each of your horticultural projects.

HortCRSP Global Horticulture Knowledge Bank provides practical crop information

HortCRSP Global Horticulture Knowledge Bank provides practical crop information - to help extension and development workers - improve the lives of people in lesser developed countries. This site

  • is developed to provide people working on Horticulture in lesser developed countries with practical information.
  • links to existing materials and develops new materials as needed.
  • is a project of International Programs of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at UC Davis.

Pollination Information Management System (PIMS)

Published on 2nd Sep 2011

The Pollination Information Management System, (PIMS) is being developed through a collaboration between FAO and a number of national level organizations concerned with the conservation and sustainable use of pollination services for sustainable agriculture. The PIMS serves to organize and deliver accurate information on managing pollination services of key crops, globally, to farmers, farm advisors and land managers.

The system is designed to help users to answer the following questions:

  • What are the pollination needs of a particular crop?
  • What is the current understanding of managing the pollination of a particular crop?
  • What studies have been carried out on the pollination of this crop?
  • What is known about the pollinators of this crop?

African Crop Calendar Database Launched by FAO

Published on 10th Jan 2011

FAO has launched an online Crop Calendar for Africa (database) that advises which crops to plant when, according to the type of agricultural zone from drylands to highlands at http://www.fao.org/agriculture/seed/cropcalendar/welcome.do  . It covers 43 major African countries.  The Crop Calendar provides information about sowing and planting seasons and agronomic practices of the crops grown by farmers in a particular agro-ecological zone.  It is a tool developed to assist farmers, extension workers, civil society and the private sector to be able to access and make available quality seeds of specific crop varieties for a particular agro-ecological zone at the appropriate sowing/planting season. It can be used by development-aid workers in the planning and implementation of seed relief and rehabilitation activities following natural or human-led disasters. Furthermore, the Crop Calendar can serve as a quick reference tool in selecting crop varieties to adapt to changing weather patterns accelerated by climate change. 

The Crop Calendar database is being maintained at a regional level and is based on inputs from member countries.

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