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Crops, Ghana, Humid Tropics, IITA, West Africa

Enabling Ghanaian communities to analyse their own situations to find better solutions

Rural livelihoods in West Africa are mainly agro-based and depend on crop and livestock production, processing, and subsequent marketing. Farmers produce cereals, legumes, vegetables and fruit trees ...

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Africa, CIMMYT, Crop-Livestock, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification, Malawi, Research, Southern Africa

Sustainable intensification and diversification of maize-based farming systems in Malawi – early win project report

This Africa RISING supported project aims to analyze  the impact of three agricultural production systems –conservation agriculture, continuous no-till maize and conventional tillage — on food production, ...

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Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, Gender, ILRI, Intensification, Interview, Women

“I really like to plough, though I get tired afterwards” – Worknesh Gurmesa

This is the story of Worknesh Gurmesa a farmer in Chelanko Kebele. I met her during our April 2013 field work to test the use of SLATE ...

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Africa, Ethiopia, ILRI, Intensification

Africa RISING trainers in Ethiopia learn to use the SLATE sustainable livelihoods asset evaluation tool

In April, the Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) and Nile Basin Development Challenge (NBDC) jointly organised a Training of Trainers workshop ...

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