TECA Technology and Agriculture directory

This is a selection of electronic decision support tools for planners, researchers and extension agents, to enable them to make informed decisions and interventions regarding technology assessment, transfer, validation, adaptation and adoption.

Labor Saving Technologies and Practices Decision Support Tool
(http://www.fao.org/sd/teca/tools/lst/index_en.html)

This tool classifies the technologies in five sections that cover areas where a shortage of labour or other sources of power is undermining household food and nutrition security, and the sustainability of rural livelihoods: land preparation and cultivation, harvesting, post-harvest operations, household tasks, rural transport.

Labor Saving Technologies, TOOL

Rice Doctor
(http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/ riceDoctor_MX/default.htm)

Rice Doctor is the field diagnostic tool of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for identifying factors limiting rice crop growth in the Tropics. It is on-line in Rice Knowledge Bank Web site and offers a list of possible diagnostics by symptoms in the plant, in the crop or in the seed.

Doctor Arroz

The Livestock and Environment Toolbox
( http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/dec/ toolbox/homepage.htm)

The toolbox consists of pages of information on livestock production systems and the way in which they interact with the environment. Access to these pages has been structured such that the reader can use the information, either to evaluate the impact of existing livestock systems on the environment, or to identify appropriate technology, policy and/or institutional management options, to alter the way in which livestock affect the environment under a given set of conditions.

The Livestock and Environment Toolbox

Financial Tool for Bamboo and Rattan Business
(http://www.inbar.int/totem/ INBAR tool zero.xls)

This simple financial tool has been prepared for making studies on the viability of a small industry.

(financial tool.xls 538KB)

Financial Tool for Bamboo and Rattan Business

Dynamic Research Evaluation for Management (DREAM)
(http://www.ifpri.org/dream.htm)

The Dynamic Research Evaluation for Managers (DREAM) software system is an impact assessment tool that enables analysts to readily calculate the size and distribution of the economic benefits from agricultural research and development activities using a range of market model options.

(Download Size: 6.1MB)

Dynamic Research Evaluation for Management DREAM

Management of Agricultural Research: A Training Manual

This practical manual includes case studies and covers the following areas: research planning, organizational principles and design, leadership, motivation, team building and conflict management, managing human resources, management information systems, computers and network techniques, financial management, research-extension linkage, information services and documentation and institute evaluation.

(On-Line)

Management of Agricultural Research: A Training Manual

Community Environmental Assessment Toolbox: The idea, methods and tools for participatory assessment, monitoring and evaluation in community forestry

Community Environmental Assessment is used to gather information in order to analyze the environmental effects of planned and/or completed activities. The tool provides a framework in which insiders can make observations and judge the value of the change. The value is determined by giving a number value to each environmental factor. In this way an environmental score is established.

Community Environmental Assessment Toolbox

Productivity

Africa: Four women work together to promote production of cassava and encourage better farming policy. (panel discussion -- 16:38)

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Research

Latin America: Experts are improving cassava production both by creating disease-resistant varieties and by lobbying for better farming policies. (panel discussion -- 10:27)

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Trade

Asia: Cassava is not a traditional crop in South Asia. Yet it is now boosting agricultural trade in Thailand. (interview --10:54)

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