field building

The Dance of Mapping and Facilitation – Field Building at a Global Agricultural Conference

Aldo de Moor & Nancy White

When Nancy White and I stepped onto the stage at the KM Triversary Forum 2025, a global online conference on Knowledge Management for Development, this year focused on bridging the research-practice gap, we weren’t just presenting another conference paper. We were sharing a story eight years in the making, one that began in a conference hall in Lusaka, Zambia, and that challenges conventional wisdom about how we navigate complexity.

The Zambia Conference Experiment: Where It All Began

Picture this: January 2017, Lusaka, Zambia. Practitioners and researchers from across the globe gathered for the INGENAES Global Symposium and Learning Exchange—a USAID-funded initiative designed to bridge three seemingly disparate worlds: gender equity, nutrition, and agricultural extension services.… Read more...

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Mapping the World: the INGENAES Global Symposium and Learning Exchange

It all started with mapping the local: the Tilburg Urban Farming community. This January, however, I ended up mapping the global end of the agricultural spectrum: the INGENAES Global Symposium and Learning Exchange, held in Lusaka, Zambia. It was a wonderful meeting of minds of people from all over the world working on and passionate about the intersection of Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Extension.

Knowledge and learning exchanges as well as network building are key components of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services (INGENAES) project. The project aims to stimulate the intersection between the sub-domains of gender, nutrition and agricultural extension services so that not only are farmers maximizing their participation in the agricultural value chain, but the nutrition needs of themselves, their families and communities are also served with the additional aspect of the pivotal role of women in this field.… Read more...

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