Monthly Archive: September 2015

Groundnut in Malawi: The cash ‘cow’ and butter that nourishes families

A newly published research brief by Africa RISING offers tips on how farmers can get more yields when they grow groundnuts.

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 30, 2015

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RISING voices: Mariama Fofanah, nutrition specialist at the International Potato Center (CIP)

Mariama Fofanah, nutrition specialist at the International Potato Center (CIP), introduces herself and her work with the program. It is one of a series of portraits of key people in Africa RISING.

By Ewen Le Borgne OnSeptember 29, 2015

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Social learning for farming systems – Insights from Africa RISING in Ethiopia

Addressing the question of how to sustainably intensify farming systems can benefit from collaborative and iterative social learning processes. This post reflects on what Africa RISING is doing and could do to strengthen social learning, based on interviews with program staff.

By Ewen Le Borgne OnSeptember 28, 2015

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Africa RISING Ethiopia local partners join hands to scale farmer-preferred technologies

Since 2013, the Africa RISING project in Sinana district (woreda) has engaged local partners in its research for development interventions in two villages (kebeles) to test and evaluate technologies that work best in the local context, identify innovations preferred by farmers ...

By Zelalem Lema OnSeptember 25, 2015

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Doubled-up legume technology in Malawi boosts land productivity

A newly published brief by Africa RISING explains how the doubled-up legume technology works and how to get optimum yields using the technology.

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 25, 2015

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Briefs document emerging results from Africa RISING projects

The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands recently organized a writeshop to heklp researchers document and generate results and evidence from their work. As well as making progress on several articles, participants produced several 'evidence' briefs.

By Simret Yasabu OnSeptember 24, 2015

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Africa RISING technologies offer Ghana farmers opportunity to earn three times more

Results from an indicative cost-benefit-analysis in northern Ghana show that farmers are getting three times more (300%), over and above their total expenditures when using the Africa RISING technologies.

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 23, 2015

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Intensifying maize production in integrated crop-livestock farming systems in northern Ghana

An Africa RISING research brief explains the effect of sheep and goat stocking density (SSD) on grain yield and soil properties in small-scale mixed farming systems.

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 21, 2015

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Rural pig rearing survey unlocks intensification pathways in northern Ghana

Researchers from the University for Development Studies and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology conducted a baseline survey to identify key factors that affect pig rearing and prospects for intensification and integration with crop production.

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 17, 2015

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New Africa RISING geospatial maps show cropping patterns and land use changes in Mali

Africa RISING and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT) geospatial unit in India have developed land use maps of Africa RISING project intervention sites in southern Mali.

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 16, 2015

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