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09

Jan

Capacity strengthening, Geodata, IITA, Research, Soils, Southern Africa, Tanzania

GIS modelling reveals hotspots of soil erosion in Kongwa, Tanzania

Soil erosion by water and wind is a major threat to agriculture in communities living in semi-arid areas in central Tanzania. Despite the significant efforts by private ...

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02

Jan

Capacity strengthening, East Africa, Fertilizer, Intensification, Participation, Tanzania

Highlights of Africa RISING closing meetings in Tanzania

Michael Kinyua and Job Kihara As curtains come down on the implementation of Africa RISING Project activities in Tanzania; many smallholder farmers and project partners are taking ...

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23

Dec

Capacity strengthening, Gender

Africa RISING launches manual on participatory tools for gender-transformative decision making

A new manual outlining how extensionists, development partners and policymakers can promote gender-transformative decision making by smallholders when introducing new technologies has been launched by the Africa ...

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25

Oct

Crop-Livestock, Ghana, IITA, Intensification, Research, West Africa

How conditional incentives like farmer inputs affect adoption of sustainable intensification

A recent study by scientists from the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) on ‘Stimulating innovations for sustainable ...

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