TY  - JOUR
N2  - Ecoregional research has the potential to help address some of the huge challenges facing agriculture in developing countries by developing technologies that work under different agro-ecological conditions, and the processes by which these technologies can be adapted to work in other areas with similar conditions. The CGIAR system has been developing ecoregional research as a new paradigm for over a decade. In this paper we evaluate one of the most ambitious of these initiatives called the Benchmark Area Approach (BAA) pioneered by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. We evaluate the BAA against nine good practice criteria for ecoregional research, finding that the approach is delivering, or has the potential to deliver, on all nine. Many of the lessons learnt from this evaluation will be relevant to current and future attempts to undertake co-ordinated multi-locational research for development
AV  - restricted
A1  - Douthwaite, B
A1  - Baker, D
A1  - Weise, S
A1  - Gockowski, J
A1  - Manyong, V M
A1  - Keatinge, J D H
TI  - Ecoregional research in Africa: learning lessons from IITA's Benchmark Area Approach
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0014479705002681 
JF  - Experimental Agriculture
SP  - 271
Y1  - 2005///
ID  - icrisat3191
EP  - 298
SN  - 0014-4797
VL  - 41
PB  - Cambridge University Press
IS  - 3
ER  -