Monthly Archive: June 2012

Africa RISING pulse project holds inception workshop in the Bale highlands of Ethiopia

On 31 May 2012, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the Sinana Agricultural Research Center (SARC) hosted an inception workshop for the Africa RISING ‘early win’ project on the integration of pulses in crop-livestock production ...

By Tsehay Gashaw OnJune 20, 2012

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Africa RISING: Update on West Africa project

Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, Africa RISING Project Coordinator at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture writes: I would like to give you an update on the status of the USAID funded project on Sustainable Intensification of Key Farming Systems in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone ...

By Peter Ballantyne OnJune 13, 2012

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Africa RISING initiative to ensure safe vegetables in Tanzania launched

From May 10-12, a project was launched in Morogoro (Tanzania) to determine the prevalence of harmful vegetable contaminants in Tanzania. For the first time ever, researchers will collect quantitative data on pesticide residues, heavy metals, human diseases, and plant pathogens on ...

By Peter Ballantyne OnJune 6, 2012

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Mateete Bekunda joins IITA to work on Africa RISING

Dr. Mateete Bekunda has joined IITA as a Consultant Systems Agronomist for the USAID funded project on Sustainable Intensification of Key African Farming Systems. His more than 30 years of research and outreach interests have been directed at improving smallholder livelihoods ...

By Peter Ballantyne OnJune 5, 2012

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Africa RISING trainees to document local knowledge on trees and farms in Ethiopia

In June 2012, the ICRAF-led early win project on ‘Sustainable tree-crop-livestock intensification as a pillar for the Ethiopian climate resilient green economy initiative‘ will hold a training workshop on local knowledge acquisition. Part of the project’s ‘output 1’, the training will ...

By Peter Ballantyne OnJune 5, 2012

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