Monthly Archive: June 2013

Africa RISING Program Coordination Team update

The second Africa RISING program coordination team meeting was held virtually on 24 June 2013. Participants reviewing actions points and progress updates from the three Africa RISING projects in East and Southern Africa, West Africa and the Ethiopian highlands, from USAID, ...

By Simret Yasabu OnJune 27, 2013

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Africa RISING Ethiopia project completes livelihoods survey for eight sites

From 19-25 May 2013, the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands carried out livelihoods survey in the eight research sites/kebeles in four woredas (Goshe Bado, Gudo Beret, Salka, Ilu-Sanbitu, Jawe, Upper-Gana, Emba-Hazti, Tsibet) in Amhara, Tigray, Oromia and SNNPR regions. ...

By Simret Yasabu OnJune 10, 2013

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Identifying scalable agricultural technologies for sustainable intensification

USAID, USDA, CGIAR and other partners are developing ‘inventories’ to help drive widespread adaptation, dissemination, and adoption of critical agricultural technologies. The inventories will provide a technical evidence base to help scale up appropriate technologies to greater numbers of smallholder farmers. ...

By Peter Ballantyne OnJune 2, 2013

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