The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective

K de Sousa, J van Etten, R Manners, E Abidin… - Agronomy for …, 2024 - Springer
Matching crop varieties to their target use context and user preferences is a challenge faced
by many plant breeding programs serving smallholder agriculture. Numerous participatory …

[HTML][HTML] Participatory design of digital innovation in agricultural research-for-development: insights from practice

J Steinke, B Ortiz-Crespo, J van Etten, A Müller - Agricultural Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Innovation based on information and communication technology (ICT) plays an
increasingly important role in agricultural research-for-development efforts. It has been …

[HTML][HTML] Fostering social inclusion in development-oriented digital food system interventions

J Steinke, C Schumann, S Langan, A Müller… - Agricultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Digital innovations can enhance the participation of often-marginalized social
groups–including women and resource-poor farmers in low-and middle-income countries–in …

Participatory research at scale: A comparative analysis of four approaches to large-scale agricultural technology testing with farmers

N Oberson, HO Moussa, AM Aminou… - Outlook on …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Tailoring agricultural technology options to the diverse conditions of smallholder farmers
requires innovative approaches for testing these technologies with farmers across varied …

Group‐based and citizen science on‐farm variety selection approaches for bean growers in Central America

M Occelli, J Sellare, KD Sousa… - Agricultural …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Participatory approaches for crop variety testing can help breeding teams to incorporate
traditional knowledge and consider site‐specific sociocultural complexities. However …

gosset: An R package for analysis and synthesis of ranking data in agricultural experimentation

K de Sousa, D Brown, J Steinke, J van Etten - SoftwareX, 2023 - Elsevier
To derive insights from data, researchers working on agricultural experiments need
appropriate data management and analysis tools. To ensure that workflows are reproducible …

[HTML][HTML] Guidance on farmer participation in the design, testing and scaling of agricultural innovations

L Pawera, R Manickam, C Wangungu, U Bonnarith… - Agricultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Despite accelerated developments in agricultural innovations, there has been a
limited progress in their adoption by smallholder farmers, especially in the Global South …

On‐farm evaluation of cassava clones using the triadic comparison of technology options approach

AR Nanyonjo, S Angudubo, P Iragaba, D Brown… - Crop …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The triadic comparison of technology options (tricot) approach to participatory varietal
selection has been demonstrated to scale out the on‐farm testing of elite candidate crop …

Accuracy of farmer-generated yield estimations of common bean in decentralised on-farm trials

M Nabateregga, H Dorado, SØ Solberg… - Available at SSRN …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa must triple by 2050 to meet the projected food
demand. Achieving this will necessitate the development of high-yielding crop varieties to …