Click on the link below to view the 1000FARMS webinar by Stephen Angudubo from the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, Uganda, on 11 June entitled Budgeting Tricot Trials: Using the 1000FARMS Costing Template.
Presenter Bio: Stephen Angudubo is an Agricultural Economist working at the interface of crop research, farmer participation, and decentralized experimentation. He has extensive experience in on-farm variety testing using the tricot approach across grain, root, and tuber crops. Before joining the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT, he supported tricot-based trials for cassava, sweetpotato, and rice within Uganda’s national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES). At the Alliance, he coordinates on-farm trial networks for CGIAR-mandated crops in East and Southern Africa and also supports decentralized, on-farm testing of opportunity crops and neglected and underutilized species (NUS) using the tricot approach.
You can contact Stephen at s.angudubo@cgiar.org
Summary of presentation: Stephen introduced the tricot costing template and guidelines as practical tools for planning and budgeting tricot trials within CGIAR–NARES networks. He explained why costing matters for transparent resource allocation, efficient trial design, and cost comparisons across countries and implementation models. He also demonstrated when to use the template and how to enter key information such as trial dimensions, seed requirements, material costs, labor time, travel expenses, and communication costs, along with how to interpret the sensitivity and scenario analysis it generates. The webinar highlighted how the template helps identify major cost drivers, test cost-saving options, and produce a concise synthesis report to support evidence-based planning and decision-making for scalable on-farm testing.
