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CIMMYT, Crop Residues, Crop-Livestock, DRYLANDSCRP, IITA, Intensification, Livestock, Maize, Southern Africa, Zambia

Expanding beyond demonstration plots brings new cattle to the kraal in Zambia

By Jonathan Odhong OnJanuary 14, 2016

In the second year of practicing conservation agriculture (CA) introduced to him through the SIMLEZA-Africa RISING project; Stephen Nyirenda, a 38 year old farmer from Lundazi District ...

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CIMMYT, DRYLANDSCRP, IITA, Intensification, Maize, Southern Africa, Zambia

Quality cowpea seed production offers Zambian women farmers opportunities for quality lives

By Jonathan Odhong OnJanuary 11, 2016

Thanks to an emerging breed of bold farmers who have taken to producing legume seeds for cultivation by their colleagues, the challenge of legume seed availability is ...

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CIMMYT, Climate change, Cowpea, DRYLANDSCRP, IITA, Intensification, Maize, Participation, Southern Africa, Zambia

Conservation agriculture for Zambia – A resilient technology in times of climate change

By Jonathan Odhong OnJanuary 7, 2016

Against the odds stacked against them due to climate change; farmers in Chipata and Katete districts in Zambia where the SIMLEZA-Africa RISING project was being implemented are ...

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CIMMYT, East Africa, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Intensification, Interview, Maize, Southern Africa, Tanzania

RISING Voices: Bright Jumbo, maize molecular breeder at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Kenya

By gloranandibalema OnJanuary 4, 2016

MacDonald Bright Jumbo, Maize Molecular Breeder at International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) in Nairobi , introduces himself and his work in the Africa RISING program. ...

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