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and partners in Africa and Latin America will collectively
contribute to testing the central hypothesis: "that conservation
and efficiency of use of soil and other natural resources
will be optimised under conditions of market- and/or policy-
and institution-driven productivity." The TSBF-CIAT strategy
proposes that a dynamic market-oriented process be used for
identifying research questions, based on the resource-to-consumption
(R-to-C) framework developed by the Rural Innovation Institute
of CIAT. The R-to-C framework extends the commodity chain
to include investment in NRM, and will specifically link ISFM
technologies to market opportunities.
The R-to-C approach is an iterative process that responds
to crop production opportunities and constraints and NRM concerns
identified by farmer groups. The first activity in this framework
is a participatory diagnosis to identify potential market
opportunities for individuals and communities. This approach
develops and implements a "demand-driven" research
agenda based on farmers' needs, market demand, and the needs
of NARES and NGO partners. We believe this approach will provide
an effective process for identifying research targets and
for locating the research in the most relevant extrapolation
domain.
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