Multiple Skills for Farmer Groups

Providing farmer groups with the skill sets they need – rather than just one – is different from the usual development approaches, and vital for empowering farmers to stimulate development for themselves at the local level. This poster looks at how combining skills sets can help farmers engage with markets and pull themselves out of poverty. This poster was presented at CRS’ Holistic Innovations in Agriculture Programming Symposium, held in Washington D.C. on April 20, 2009.

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Working Together, Learning Together

Documents CRS’ experience with an agroenterprise “learning alliance”—a participatory approach to learning that aims to accelerate institutional change and deepen the level of impact.

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Agriculture and Environment Strategy, 2009–2014

Lays out the principles that will guide CRS’ support to poor, rural, agricultural communities over the next five years and sets new goals for our work in urban and peri-urban areas.

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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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Project LISTEN, CRS Malawi

Case study and evaluation of a project designed to increase resilience to food security shocks in drought prone areas in Malawi and Zambia and reduce dependency on external food aid.

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