ACIAR FACASI
The aim of the ‘Farm Mechanisation and Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Intensification’ (FACASI) project, implemented from 2013 to 2017 in Kenya and in Tanzania, and from 2014 to 2019 in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, was to identify appropriate small-scale machines (in particular two-wheel tractors and their ancillary equipment) to improve farming practices (in particular crop establishment through direct seeding), and the commercial mechanisms needed to deliver these to smallholder farmers.
Frédéric Baudron
Systems Agronomist
My research interests include farming system research, sustainable intenification, agriculture-biodiversity nexus, appropriate mechanization, participatory innovation development, agronomy-to-scale, and roots and tubers.