THEME INFO PACKS: SCALING UP

WEBSITES

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MYRADA
www.myrada.org

Organisation MYRADA is active in South Asia supporting and initiating self help affinity groups and micro finance activities. The website provides access to reports with experiences and manuals about these activities.

 

The Learning for Sustainability web portal
www.learningforsustainability.net

This portal is supporting dialogue, collective action and reflection. It is designed for those wanting to improve collaboration within a range of governance initiatives. It is aimed at supporting adaptation and resilience within a decision-making environment characterized by change, complexity and uncertainty. The site highlights the wide range of networks, forums, processes and social skills available internationally to support constructive collaboration. The site structure shows how these elements can work together, and collectively brings links to several hundred annotated on-line resources together in one easy to access site.

 

BRAC: Alleviation of poverty and empowering the poor
www.brac.net

BRAC is working in Asian and African countries with people whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, disease and other disadvantages. They aim at livelihood and health improvement by education and agriculture programmes and a lot more. BRAC is based in Bangalore, India and the website provides information about the organisation and access to resources like publications and videos.

 

PROSHIKA: centre for Human development
www.proshika.org

Based in Bangladesh this organisation aims at poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor and reaches a large group of beneficiaries through this website.

 

Global Farmer Field School Network
www.farmerfieldschool.info

With the global expansion, institutionalisation and scaling-up of the FFS approach, a need has risen to establish a decentralised network and resource centre to cater for strategies and mechanisms for institutionalisation and scaling-up, quality control mechanisms, low cost implementation strategies and mechanisms, a discussion forum, exchange of experiences, and quick access to resource and training materials, trainers, experts and documentation: the Global Farmer Field School Network and resource Centre FFSNet.

 

SRI System of Rice Intensification
www.ciifad.cornell.edu/sri

This website is a collaborative effort of Association Tefy Saina, Antanarivo, Madagascar and the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD). SRI is a methodology for increasing the productivity of irrigated rice cultivation by changing the management of plants, soil, water and nutrients. SRI practices lead to healthier, more productive soil and plants by supporting greater root growth and by nurturing the abundance and diversity of soil organisms. SRI concepts and methods have been successfully adapted to upland unirrigated rice, and they are now being extrapolated to other crops like millet, wheat and sugar cane.

 

e-agriculture
www.e-agriculture.org

e-agriculture is a global initiative to enhance sustainable agricultural development and food security by improving the use of information, communication, and associated technologies in the sector. The aim is to enable members to exchange opinions, experiences, good practices and resources related to e-agriculture, and to ensure that the knowledge created is effectively shared and used worldwide. (In English, French and Spanish)

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