Extension of Sustainable Natural Resource Management

This component focuses on helping partners to foster improved, integrated soil, water, nutrient, vegetation, and livestock management. This helps them achieve greater productivity, enhance food security, and increase ecosystem resilience.

This component also enhances the capacity of national agricultural research systems to collaborate with farmers in identifying natural resource management strategies, methods and technologies to promote conservation, restoration, and the sustainable use of degraded ecosystems.

A major recent example of this Component is a participatory research workshop related to soil fertility management organized by TSBF-CIAT in 2004 through the AfNET network of national research system partners across the continent.