What's New ?

New Research Projects with the ‘Bright Spots’ approach

Quesungual slash and mulch agroforestry system (QSMAS): Improving crop water productivity, food security and resource quality in the sub-humid tropics. This project funded by the Challenge Program on Water and Food, began in 2004.


Project partners

  • CIAT
  • Berlin University of Technology
  • National School for Forestry Service (ESNACIFOR)
  • INTA/CENIA
  • MIS (Integrated Soil Management)
  • Consortium Universidad Nacional Agraria (UNA)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
  • CIPASLA Consortium
  • African Soil Fertility Network (AfNet)


The main objective

The main objective of this project is to determine the key principles behind the social acceptance and biophysical resilience of the QSMAS “Bright Spot.” for more details…click here



Enabling Communities in the Aral Sea Basin to Combat Land and Water Resource Degradation Through the Creation of ‘Bright’ Spots.
This is an ADB funded project that gets underway in 2005


Project partners:

  • IWMI
  • ICARDA
  • ICBA
  • SANIIRI Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, Uzbekistan
  • Soil Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture of Turkmenistan
  • Institute of Water Economy, Kazakhstan
The main objective

The main objective of this project is to identify and promote the expansion of community based innovations termed “Bright Spots” that prevent further land and water degradation and enhance the livelihoods of agrarian communities in the target countries. For more details…..

 

 

 

 

 

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