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Crop-Livestock, Crops, East Africa, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification, Research, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Africa RISING charts strategic roadmap to boost productivity of smallholder mixed-farming growers in East and Southern Africa

By ILRI Communications OnOctober 9, 2012

Mixed-farming smallholder growers in East and Southern Africa are slated to see a boost in their production and productivity resulting from a strategy that will see agricultural ...

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East Africa, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Malawi, Research, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Zambia

Looking back at the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa review and planning meeting: Interviewing Mateete Bekunda

By Ewen Le Borgne OnOctober 6, 2012

Mateete Bekunda joined Africa RISING in April this year as the Farming Systems Agronomist for the East and Southern Africa region. He kindly accepted to share his views about the recent ...

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Agroforestry, Animal Feeding, CIAT, Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, ICARDA, ICRAF, IFPRI, ILRI, Intensification, IWMI, LIVESTOCK-FISH, NRM, Research, Trees, Water

Ethiopian Highlands review and planning meeting: consultation, reflection and action!

By Ewen Le Borgne OnSeptember 24, 2012

The inception phase of Africa RISING is coming to an end on 30 September. All ‘jumpstart activities’ and ‘early win’ projects from this phase have to be ...

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Africa, Animal Feeding, Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ICARDA, ILRI, Intensification

Project implementation lessons from the feed and fodder ‘early win’ project

By Peter Ballantyne OnSeptember 24, 2012

The Africa RISING ‘early win‘ projects were an experiment in quick project development. Participants at the recent synthesis meeting of the QuickFeed project reflected on some of ...

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