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Photo report on the Africa RISING Program Learning Event 2019

By Africa RISING communications OnMarch 8, 2019

In more than a thousand words, this collection of elegant photos taken during the Africa RISING Program Learning Event provides a summary of how the whole meeting ...

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Event, IITA, LIVESTOCKCRP, MAIZECRP, Malawi, PCT, Southern Africa

What’s in a name? Africa RISING partners aim for common understanding of terminologies

By Jonathan Odhong OnMarch 8, 2019

What do words like 'innovation', 'spillover', 'adoption', and 'technology' mean to you? At the Africa RISING Program Learning Event on 5-8 February 2019, implementing partners had a ...

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Crop-Livestock, Event, IITA, Interview, LIVESTOCKCRP, MAIZECRP, Malawi, PCT, Southern Africa

Operationalizing the Sustainable Intensification Assessment Framework: An interview with Vara Prasad

By Jonathan Odhong OnMarch 5, 2019

Vara Prasad, director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Sustainable Intensification (SIIL) talks about the Sustainable Intensification Assessment Framework, its applications, lessons learnt since it ...

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IITA, Intensification, Maize, MAIZECRP, Postharvest, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Exploring farmers’ willingness to pay for small-scale maize shelling machines in Tanzania

By Jonathan Odhong OnMarch 4, 2019

This poster presents the findings of a study that explored Tanzanian smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for small-scale maize shelling machines and identified factors affecting willingness ...

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