Homestead Gardening

A Manual for Program Managers, Implementers, and Practitioners

This manual includes helpful programming and gardening tips to improve the performance implementation of homestead gardens. These are designed to provide insight into some of the lessons learned from implementing homestead gardening activities in Lesotho and to suggest possible adaptations or replacement materials.

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A Market Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Agroenterprise Development

A product of the experiences and lessons learned while implementing agroenterprise projects in eastern and southern Africa. A Market Facilitator’s Guide is based on a resource-to-consumption framework, which is the central theme of the “enabling rural innovation” (ERI) approach for rural development. This approach seeks to empower farmer groups with the necessary skills to make informed decisions for their economic development, based on an analysis of their surroundings, assets and skills. The methodology also aims for outcomes that are equitable, gender focused and participatory. Reprint of a document previously published by CIAT.

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Participatory Market Chain Analysis for Smallholder Producers

Another in a series of good practice guides describing the components of the participatory and area-based approach to rural agroenterprise development. Participatory Market Chain Analysis is based on the principles of developing market-led interventions that go beyond single intervention projects. The aim of this guide is to enable service providers to work with a range of actors in selected market chains and design interventions that initiate systemic changes in the marketplace. It leads practitioners to select market chains, conduct rapid market surveys, create business plans, conduct participatory market chain analyses, and negotiate strategies to increase competitiveness. This is a reprint of a document previously published by CIAT.

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Identifying Market Opportunities for Rural Smallholder Producers

Provides a simple and systematic participatory method for gathering market information to identify products and services for agroenterprise development.

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Agriculture and Environment Interventions in Support of HIV and AIDS Programming

Practical ideas for integrating agriculture and environment programming with HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation efforts.

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