Catherine Njuguna

RISING voices: Victor Manyong, chair Africa RISING ESA steering committee and director for IITA Eastern Africa Hub

Victor Manyong, is the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Project Steering Committee Chair. He is also the Director for Eastern Africa and Leader of the social science research group at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA). In this interview ...

By Catherine Njuguna OnOctober 9, 2015

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RISING voices: Anthony Kimaro, scientist and ICRAF Tanzania country representative

This RISING voices article features an interview with Anthony Kimaro, a scientist with Africa RISING and country representative for ICRAF in Tanzania.

By Catherine Njuguna OnJanuary 15, 2015

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RISING voices: Mateete Bekunda, chief scientist East and Southern Africa (ESA) project

This RISING voices article features an interview with Mateete Bekunda, chief scientist in the East and Southern Africa (ESA) project of the Africa RISING Program and a farming systems agronomist with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).

By Catherine Njuguna OnOctober 28, 2014

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USAID–Tanzania invests USD 2.2 million to support Africa RISING scale out technologies to increase productivity of smallholders

Africa RISING has received additional support from the USAID mission in Tanzania to scale out appropriate technologies to smallholder farmers in the maize- and rice-farming systems in the country.

By Catherine Njuguna OnOctober 27, 2014

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Participatory research proves effective in changing farmers misconception on fertilizers in Tanzania

The strongly held but wrong perception among farmers in Babati District that use of mineral fertilizers destroys the soil is a major cause of the low crop yield in the district.

By Catherine Njuguna OnOctober 13, 2014

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High levels of mycotoxins detected in Babati pose health risk to human and livestock health in Tanzania

Communities in Tanzania and the region could unknowingly be exposing themselves to potential health problems as a result of consuming foods that are contaminated with high levels of mycotoxins – poisonous chemicals that are produced by certain types of fungi and ...

By Catherine Njuguna OnOctober 6, 2014

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Fodder and feed, a key to sustainable intensification of crop livestock system in Babati, Tanzania

Farmers lack of information on fodder, feeds and feeding; inadequate availability of feeds in terms of quantity and quality especially during the dry season; and poor storage, processing and utilization of crop residues in livestock management are the major ...

By Catherine Njuguna OnOctober 6, 2014

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Africa RISING’s integrated technologies doubling smallholder farmers’ yields in East and Southern Africa

The Africa RISING program, now in its third year, has made significant progress in getting the different researchers from different backgrounds and institutions to work together in a truly integrated way to develop science-based solutions to the challenges faced by smallholder ...

By Catherine Njuguna OnOctober 5, 2014

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Promoting dietary and income diversification through vegetable integration into maize/legume systems in Babati, Tanzania

Nearly half of the farmers in the Africa RISING action sites in Tanzania integrate vegetables into their maize-based farming systems as a strategy to increase and diversify their income and diet according to a household socioeconomic characterization survey conducted by Africa ...

By Catherine Njuguna OnOctober 2, 2014

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RISING voices: Festo Salehe Ngulu, consultant agronomist, Tanzania

In this interview, Festo Salehe Ngulu introduces himself and his work with Africa RISING. It is one of a series of portraits of key people in the project.

By Catherine Njuguna OnAugust 21, 2014

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