Knowledge management is one of AHI's four outputs/projects in its Medium Term Plans of the CGIAR and ASARECA. The aim of this project is an "increased knowledge base of R&D actors at national, regional and global levels on INRM principles, methods and impacts through improved information capture, packaging and sharing." Current knowledge management activities within AHI are funded by IDRC, and emphasize two main areas of activity: 1) improved knowledge capture within AHI pilot sites and programs; and 2) synthesis, writing and publication of knowledge products for diverse end users.

Improved knowledge capture is aimed at enhancing learning from innovations being tested in pilot sites. They include mechanisms for improved learning by site team members and target beneficiaries. The first includes strategies for improving process documentation, which enables site teams to better capture the lessons and effects of their own intervention processes on different social groups and on targeted outcomes. It also includes improved monitoring and assessment of impacts through annual reporting mechanisms and ex-post impact assessment. Strategies to strengthen learning among beneficiary groups and communities focus on participatory monitoring and evaluation among participating and non-participating farmers.

Synthesis, writing and publication within AHI are organized by key products within the AHI Publication Series. These include AHI Briefs targeting policy makers, researchers and development actors; AHI Working Papers targeting the scientific community as well as practitioners; AHI Project Documents which document workshop and conference papers and deliberations; and AHI Methods Guides which capture AHI's primary International Public Goods in the form of methodologies and "best practices" for INRM. These products are produced by individual or teams of researchers at site and regional level who have been directly involved in site-level innovations and regional syntheses. AHI is experimenting with new strategies for synthesizing key outputs, including conferences, competitions and writing workshops at site and regional level.