UPWARD Newsletter

Volume 10, Numbers 1 & 2, June - December 2001
Edition focus: Cultural and Biological Diversity
Articles in this Issue (Download the e-file version: pdf format: 665 kb):
	Patricia L. Howard. Women in Local Plant Genetic Resource Management and Conservation.
	Coordinator's Comments: UPWARD in 2001.
	Rolinda T. Sanico (Excerpts from workshop proceedings). Experts' Consultation on Agrobiodiversity Conservation and the Role of Women.
	Julian Gonsalves and Raul Boncodin. Developing a Sourcebook on Agrobiodiversity Conservation.
	Gordon D. Prain. In Situ Conservation of Agrobiodiversity: Lessons from the Field.
	Raul Boncodin and Algerico Mariscal. Exploring Potentials of On-Farm Conservation of Sweetpotato Genetic Resources in Asia: Highlights of the 3^rd ANSWER International Workshop.
	Mike Nichols, Patricio Malagamba and Gisella Canessa. International Symposium on Sweetpotato.
	Dindo M. Campilan. PM&E for Integrated Crop Management: Highlights of a Regional Learning Workshop.
	Trinh Dinh Thau, Thai Thi Minh, Virginia Visconti and Dai Peters. Assessing the Impact of Sweetpotato-Pigfeed Research.
	Cherry Leah P. Bagalanon and Lorna E. Sister. UPWARD Course on Participatory R&D: Bringing Together Principles, Practices and People.
	Constancio C. de Guzman. Sampaguita Garland Making in Peri-Urban Manila: A String of Livelihoods.
	Nerlie Manalili and Locel Tumlos. Agro-Enterprise Development Course for Southeast Asia.
	Witono Adiyoga, Keith O. Fuglie and Rachman Suherman. Potato Marketing in North Sumatra: An Assessment of Indonesian Potato Trade.
	Jocelyn C. Perez. Revisiting Lowland Potato Production.
	Rhodora Gonzales. Developing a GIS-assisted Local Watershed Monitoring Tool.
	Lorna E. Sister. The Use of Wealth Rank as an Explanatory Variable in Modeling Farm Cultivation Decisions.
	Rolinda L. Talatala-Sanico. UPWARD Holds In-country Writeshop for Philippine Collaborators.
	CIP-ESEAP and UPWARD Partner: The National Institute of Animal Husbandry, Vietnam.
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Volume 9, Number 2, December 2000
Edition focus: Interfacing Agro-Enterprise Development with Natural Resource Management
Articles in this Issue:
	Chris Wheatley and Rupert Best. Generating Enterprises and Sustaining Resources.
	Coordinator's Comments: New Millennium, New Initiatives.
	Dai Peters, Do Duc Ngai and Dang Thi An. Increasing Income, Increasing Wastes: Rootcrop Processing Enterprises in Vietnam.
	Nerlie Masajo-Manalili. Industrial Waste as Agricultural Input: Potential Use of Distillery Wastes in the Philippines.
	Ralph Roothaert. Forages for Smallholders in Asia: CIAT Project Begins New Phase.
	Lorna E. Sister and Frank A. Hidalgo. At the TPS Village: Changing Crops, Changing Lives.
	Julieta R. Roa. Policy Reforms to Support Small-Scale Food Processing Enterprises in the Philippines.
	Dindo M. Campilan, Oscar A. Hidalgo and Tara L. Lama. Potato Farmers as Seed Managers: Learning Through Field Schools in Nepal.
	CIP-ESEAP and UPWARD Partner: SEARCA's Agro-Industrial Development Program.
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Volume 9, Number 1, June 2000
Edition focus: Capacity Development for Participatory Research
Articles in this Issue:
	Patricio Malagamba. CIP Training: New Priorities and Strategies.
	Coordinator's Comments: Training Partnerships.
	Carlos Basilio. What Makes the UPWARD Approach Participatory? Workshop Reexamines Evidence from the Field.
	Gelia T. Castillo. Participatory Research: Acquiring Its Credentials and Ethics.
	Doug Horton, Gerdien Meijerink and Dindo Campilan. Evaluating Capacity Development in Research and Development Organizations.
	Doug Horton. Evaluating Capacity Development in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation: A Case from Latin America.
	Raul Boncodin. PhilRootcrops Researchers Lay Groundwork for SP ICM in the Philippines.
	Elske van de Fliert and Dindo Campilan. Integrated Crop Management: Conceptualization and Implication for Research and Development.
	Gordon Prain. Action Plan Developed for Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam.
	Li Xiaoyun. Training Support to Farmer-Centered R&D in China: Challenges and Insights.
	CIP-ESEAP and UPWARD Partner (by Zhou Shengkun): College of Rural Development (CORD) China Agricultural University.
	Lilia Collado. SP Starch Evaluation and Market System Analysis: Highlights of China Training Workshop.
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Volume 8, Number 1, June 1999
Edition focus: Users as Sustainable Crop Managers
Articles in this Issue:
	Elske van de Fliert. Integrated Crop Management for Sweetpotato: A Mellow Blend of Science and Farmer Pratice.
	Coordinator's Comments: Rootcrops as Livelihood Crops.
	Raul Boncodin. Facing Up to New Challenges: UPWARD Planning Meeting '99.
	Upali Jayasinghe and Lilibeth B. Laranang. Etiology of "Camote Kulot" Disease in Central Luzon, Philippines.
	Anabella Tulin, Victor Asio, Jose Pardales, Jr. and Dindo Campilan. Establishing Nutrient Deficiency Symptoms in Sweetpotato.
	Xie Conghua, Dindo Campilan, Enrique Chujoy and Wang Yi. Assessing Farmer Management of Potato Diseases in Southwest China.
	Rini Asmunati. Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation of Sweetpotato ICM Farmer Field Schools in Indonesia.
	Cherry Leah P. Bagalanon. CIP-UPWARD Holds Vietnam Training on Participatory Research Methodology.
	Carlos S. Basilio. International Workshop Tackles Partnerships in Agricultural R&D: CIP-UPWARD Case Project Presented.
	Oscar A. Hidalgo and Sarath Ilangantileke. Potato Seed Systems in South West Asia.
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Volume 7, Number 2, December 1998
Edition focus: Sweetpotato Utilization: Asian Trends and Opportunities
Articles in this Issue:
	Christopher Oates. Global Starch - Opportunity for Sweetpotato?
	Coordinator's Comments: Transition Processes.
	Keith O. Fuglie. Raw Materials for Starch in Asia: Some Economic Considerations.
	Katsumi Komaki. Breeding for High Starch Content in Japan.
	Ma Daifu and Li Hongmin. Sweetpotato Starch Processing and Development of High Starch Varieties in China.
	Siti Dewi Indrassari. Utilizing Sweetpotato the Indonesian Way.
	Gregory Scott. Sweetpotato Facts Around the World.
	Lilia S. Collado. Pasting Properties of Industrial Sweetpotato Starch Produced in the Philippines.
	Raul Boncodin and Betty Gayao. Alternative Livelihood for Urban and Peri-Urban Households: Sweetpotato-Based Snack Food Enterprise Development in Baguio City.
	Julieta Roa. Of Models and Realities: Sweetpotato Starch in the Philippines?
	Xiaoyong Zhang. Sweetpotato Marketing System in Sichuan, China.
	CIP-ESEAP and UPWARD Partner (by Frederique Vogel): Snack Food Company Secures Farmers' Potato Outlet: Universal Robina Corporation.
	Zhang Liming and Wang Yi. Sweetpotato Processing in Shandong, China.
	UPWARD's PMC Contact Group Meets in South Korea.
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Volume 7, Number 1, June 1998
Edition focus: Genetic Resources, Biodiversity and Users
Articles in this Issue:
	Jaap J. Hardon. Sweetpotato: A Conservationist's Perspective.
	Coordinator's Comments: Contact.
	Gordon Prain and Caecilia A. Widyastuti. Sweetpotato Conservation Means Survival for Irian Jaya Families.
	Il Gin Mok, Tjintokohadi and Lisna Ningsih. Collecting, Characterizing and Maintaining Sweetpotato Germplasm in Indonesia.
	Lorna Sister. A Look at the People in the Park.
	Helen Dayo. Conserving Rootcrop Genetic Resources in Batanes Islands.
	Raul Boncodin and Belita Vega. Local Views on Genetic Resources Conservation.
	CIP-Lima Intranet. Lost Crops: The Lesser-Known Andean Root and Tuber Crops.
	Ric Armonia. International Workshop Tackles PM&E Issues: UPWARD Joins Global Steering Committee.
	CIP-ESEAP and UPWARD Partner (by Guo Xiaoding): The Xuzhou Sweetpotato Research Center.
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Volume 6, Number 2, December 1997
Edition focus: Sustainable Livelihood for Rural Households
Articles in this Issue:
	Gelia Castillo. Changes in Concept and Practice of Rootcrop R&D: Revisiting UPWARD Field Projects.
	Coordinator's Comments
	Anke Niehof. Households and the Food Chain: How Do They Relate?
	Julian Gonsalves. Priorities for a Food Security-Driven Sustainable Agriculture in Asia.
	Clarita Aganon and Anabella Bautista-Tulin. Participatory Approaches Toward SP Integrated Nutrient Management in the Philippines.
	Tek Gurung and Sita Ram Ghimere. Scaling Up and Institutionalization: Bacterial Wilt Management in Nepal.
	Lin Zhibin, Zhou Shengkun and Li Xiao Yun. Interweaving the Traditional and the Modern in Northern China: Another Look at Indigenous Concepts.
	Contact Groups: Getting to Know the Facilitators.
	Highlights: UPWARD Program Review.
	Tom Walker. UPWARD and the R&D Networks in CIP.
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Volume 6, Number 1, June 1997
Edition focus: Better Methods, Better Results
Articles in this Issue:
	Coordinator's Comments: A Fond Farewell.
	UPWARD '97 Annual Meeting in Vietnam: Sustainable Livelihood from Rootcrops.
	Dean Holland. Science, Empowerment and Uncertainty in Participatory Research.
	Derkie T. Alfonso and Reigh P. Monreal. Sustaining Root Crop Production in Central Philippines Through Farmers' Field School.
	Johan E. Brons and Lorena V. Duna. Environmental Issues in Potato Technology Development.
	Dindo Campilan and Cherry Leah Bagalanon. Sweetpotato Cultivation on Degraded Soils: Workshop Draws Up Nutrient Management Research Plan.
	Fieldnotes Readership Features.
	Dai Peters. Pragmatic Solutions for Sweetpotato Post-Harvest Problems in Indonesia and Vietnam.
	DSG: Linking UPWARD to Worldwide Experience.
	Raul Boncodin and Cely Velez. Assessing Nutritional Benefits from Homegarden Products.
	Dindo Campilan and Ricardo Armonia. Monitoring and Evaluation in Asia: The Need for Structure and Balance.
	Helen F. Dayo, Jocelyn D. Labios and Amparo M. Wagan. Documenting Rootcrop Production Systems in Batanes.
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Volume 5, Number 2, December 1996
Edition focus: Growing a Healthy Crop
Articles in this Issue:
	Jane N. O'Sullivan. Crop and Soil Health as Seen by Farmers and Scientists.
	Coordinator's Comments.
	Clarita Aganon. Integrated Nutrient Management in Lahar-Laden Farmlands.
	S.R. Ghimire, A.K. Vaidya and T.B. Gurung. Hope for Resuming Bacterial Wilt-Free Potato Production.
	Prakash M. Pradhanang. Setting Priorities to Reduce Bacterial Wilt of Potato in Nepal.
	Zhang Rentian and Wu Jianjua. Rice-Potato Rotation Improves Crop Health in Zhejiang, China.
	Betty Gayao. Potato Seed Tubers: A Compromise Between Quality and Reality.
	Rolinda Talatala-Sanico. Weed Management and Crop Health.
	Johan Brons and Dindo Campilan. Institutionalizing Innovations: Highlights of the 5th Annual UPWARD Conference.
	DSG: Linking UPWARD to Worldwide Experience.
	Charles Crissman. Pesticides: Human Health Costs in Equador.
	Baukje Vrieswijk. A Closer Look at Human Health in Agriculture.
	Dindo Campilan, Lorna Sister and Jeffrey van de Locht. PM&E Tools and Tales: Highlights of a Recent Workshop.
	Johan Brons, Chris Wheatley and Dai Peters. Not Always the Same Sweetpotato: Impressions of a Workshop on Rootcrop Processing.
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Volume 5, Number 1, June 1996
Edition focus: Networking for Participatory R&D
Articles in this Issue:
	Dindo M. Campilan. User Paricipatory R&D: Does It Really Work?
	Coordinator's Comments.
	C. Wheatley and R. Best. Latin American Lessons in Root Crop Enterprise Development.
	Johan Brons. True Potato Seed: So What's New?
	Gordon Prain. Production Systems Training in Vietnam: Focus on Farmers and Fields.
	Betty Gayao and Dindo Campilan. Sweetpotato Gardens Promote Health and Biodiversity.
	Gelia T. Castillo. Research Partnerships: Who Pays and Who Benefits?
	Julieta Roa. Processing/Marketing Contact Group.
	Josephine Kintanar-Calag. Reaching the Poor through Village Networks.
	DSG: Linking UPWARD to Worldwide Experience.
	UPWARD's Annual Conference 1996 to Tackle Institutionalization Issues.
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Volume 4, Number 2, December 1995
Edition focus: Food and Feed Processing, Marketing Issues.
Articles in this Issue:
	Gordon Prain, Christopher Wheatley and Nguyen Duy Duc. Household Processing of Rootcrops: Key to Rural Growth in Vietnam.
	Coordinator's Comments.
	Sunardi and Dindo Campilan. Institution Building for Rootcrop R&D in Indonesia.
	Lin Liping. Chinese Farmers Discover New Markets for Simple SP Snack.
	Siti Dewi Indrasari and B.A. Susila Santosa. Local Sweetpotato Flour Can Replace Imported Wheat in Indonesia.
	Dindo Campilan. Sharing Evaluation Experiences in Participatory User-Oriented R&D.
	Cherry Leah P. Bagalanon. Workshop Stirs Up Proposals on Processing Enterprise Devt in Indonesia.
	Liborio S. Cabanilla. What's in Store for Sweetpotato in the Philippines?
	SAPPRAD Annual Report. Bicol SP Industry Development Program Spreads Its Wings Over the Philippines.
	Cherry Leah P. Bagalanon. Fine-tuning the Targets of PRA: Highlights of the First Consultative Meeting of Philippines PRA Practitioners.
	Irene Adion. SP Festival Eyed in Tarlac, Philippines.
	Julieta Roa. The Processing/Marketing Contact Group is Born.
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Volume 4, Number 1, June 1995
Articles in this Issue:
	Prakash Pradhanang. Beating Potato Wilt in Nepal Hills with Community-Based IPM.
	Coordinator's Notes.
	Network Notes. UPWARD Takes Root.
	Anke Niehof. Dutch Support Group to UPWARD: Who Supports Whom?
	Gelia Castillo. Reflections on UPWARD's Past and Future.
	Gordon Prain and Maricel Piniero. Lifescapes in the Landscape: UPWARD and SANREM-CRSP in Southern Philippines.
	Belita Vega. Sweetpotato Information Drive for Muslim Mindanao.
	Julie Roa. Participatory Research Methods Training Held in the Philippines.
	Towards IK as an Applied Development Tool.
	Research Notes. Participation, Institutional Partnership at Heart of New Vietnamese Research Initiative.
	Cherry Leah P. Bagalanon. Building Bridges for Collaborative Development.
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Volume 3, Number 2, December 1993
Articles in this Issue:
	Local Expertise, Partnership, Keys to UPWARD Second Phase.
	Gordon Prain. The Trials of Participation.
	M.K. Palomar, J.R. Roa, R.T. Sanico, E.A. Vasquez, C.S. del Rosario and P.M. Tan. Understanding IPK: A Necessary First Step in IPM Programs.
	E.T. Rasco, Jr. On-Farm Trials: Playing with the Farmers' Fortunes or "Empowering the Farmers"
	Maricel C. Piniero. Modernization in Mindanao Hits Crop Varietal Diversity, Increases Species Diversity.
	Dang Thi Lan. Noodle-Making Project Taps Local Experts as Trainer-Partners.
	J.M. Sim and B.T. Gayao. Achieving Homegardening Impact Through Inter-Agency Cooperation: Training Course Sets the Agenda.
	Cherry Leah P. Bagalanon. Users Take the Lead in Soil Fertility Experiments.
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Volume 3, Number 1, March 1993
Articles in this Issue:
	Dindo M. Campilan. Indigenous Management of Upland Sweetpotato Sets Example for Conventional R&D.
	Gordon D. Prain. Interdisciplinary Research: The Need for a Fundamental Change of Perspective.
	Women Home Gardeners Set a New Research Agenda.
	Hilda L. Quindara. Acceptability of Sweetpotato Among School Children.
	Maricel C. Piniero. International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Teamwork in Sweetpotato Research and Development Projects.
	Alexander G. Flor. Ethnovideography: The Ultimate User's Perspective?
	Edna Garzon. Suki: The Myth and the Reality.
	Maricel C. Piniero. Farmer Curators Begin First Replanting of In Situ Rootcrop Genebank in Southern Philippines.
	Loida E. Mojica. The Potential of Sweetpotato as a Nutritious Snack Food.
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Volume 1, Number 2, October 1991
Articles in this Issue:
	V.N. Sandoval. UPWARD Moves On!
	C.P. Bagalanon. Echo-Trainings Sponsored.
	Incomings and Outgoings at CIP and UPWARD.
	M.C. Piniero. First Harvest from the Local Germplasm Collection.
	Robert E. Rhoades. An Open Farewell Letter to UPWARD Researchers and Supporters.
	F.G. Villamayor, Jr. Barangay Salvacion: Source of Tacloban City's Camote Tops.
	B.T. Gayao. Evolution of Indigenous Farming Practices.
	C.P. Bagalanon. PRA Training in India: An Experience.

Volume 11, Numbers 1 & 2, June - December 2002
Edition focus: R&D Partnerships with Local Institutions
Articles in this Issue (Download the e-file version: pdf format: 647 kb):
	Carlos S. Basilio, Lilibeth B. Laranang, Perfecto U. Bartolini and Jocelyn C. Perez. Engaging Local Government: Sweetpotato R&D in the Philippines.
	Coordinator's Comments: Preserving the core, stimulating progress.
	Dindo M. Campilan. International Workshop Tackles Issues on FFS as Platform for Farmer Learning and Empowerment.
	Dindo M. Campilan. Participatory Research for and with Multiple Users: Sharing Experiences at the UPWARD 2002 Meeting.
	Lilibeth B. Laranang and Carlos S. Basilio. Strengthening Local Systems for Producing Sweetpotato Plating Materials.
	Rofik Sinung-Basuki. Multi-User Evaluation of Processing-type Potatoes in Indonesia.
	Gelia T. Castillo. Taking Multiple-Users' Perspectives: Reflections on Value Added to Agricultural R&D.
	Hidelisa de Ramos de Chavez. Development of a Sourcebook on Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Use.
	Wayne G. Ganpat and Vyjayanthi Francis Lopez. Exploring Participatory Research in the Caribbean.
	Danilo A. Pezo, G. Douglas Gray and Somkiat Saithanoo. Improving Small-scale Crop/Livestock Systems in Southeast Asia Through the CASREN Network.
	Julian A. Lapitan and Mark A. Bell. Building Local R&D Partnership: IRRI's DAPITSAKA Project.
	Lorna E. Sister and Cherry Leah P. Bagalano. 2002 International Course on Participatory R&D.
	SEARICE, Jose Travero, Marina Labonite and Jose Labonite. Academe-NGO Research Collaboration: Strengthening Community-based Rice Genetic Resources Management.
	CIP-ESEAP and UPWARD Partner: VECO Indonesia.
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