Monthly Archive: February 2017

Diversification with cowpea provides new opportunities for smallholders in Zambia

Drought-tolerant cowpea has become an attractive crop among rural Zambian farmers, thanks to USAID’s Feed the Future initiative in Eastern Province. Cowpea is now more frequently used as both a food and cash crop in the Eastern Province, due to its ...

By Jonathan Odhong OnFebruary 16, 2017

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Good agriculture practices―low hanging fruits for Zambian farmers

Good agriculture practices (GAPs) are the low-hanging fruits for extension of new technologies. They are easily adoptable, give farmers an immediate benefit, and help in the gradual shift from traditional plough or hoe-based systems with maize monocropping to more sustainable and ...

By Jonathan Odhong OnFebruary 14, 2017

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Conservation agriculture – a system to adapt to climate variability and declining soil fertility in Zambia

Remarkable results are emerging from Africa RISING project activities in Eastern Province of Zambia. More than 20,000 farmers have been exposed to CA by SIMLEZA-Africa RISING, the predecessor project of Africa RISING, which continues to sensitize and train more farmers. Farmers ...

By Jonathan Odhong OnFebruary 9, 2017

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Improved manure management – getting more from a limited resource

In the cropping season of 2015/2016, Africa RISING expanded its work in Zambia under the Sustainable Intensification theme to trials on improved manure handling.

By Jonathan Odhong OnFebruary 7, 2017

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Gender-based constraints and opportunities to agricultural intensification in Ethiopia

This literature review employs a community capital’s framework to provide a holistic perspective of the stock and interaction between the capitals required by men and women farmers for effective engagement in agricultural intensification. The review was was validated by male and ...

By Annet Mulema OnFebruary 3, 2017

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Connecting research-in-development dots and investing in dynamic scaling pathways – Africa RISING phase2 kicks off with science for impact event

What’s new in Africa RISING? What are the intrinsic changes to the DNA of the program? How will the project achieve these high impact developmental objectives? Does the project completely shift its focus from research to development?

By Jonathan Odhong OnFebruary 3, 2017

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Africa RISING aims to move from common conversations to communities of practice

One of the main 'program-wide' changes in the second phase of Africa RISING is the institutionalisation of 'communities of practice' (CoPs). Five initial pilot CoPs were officially launched at the first science meeting of Africa RISING phase 2, in Dar es ...

By Ewen Le Borgne OnFebruary 2, 2017

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