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Animal Feeding, Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ICRAF, ILRI, Intensification, Research, Trees

Local knowledge training exercise: Unpacking tree-crop-livestock interactions in Tigray

From 11 to 22 June 2012, students from Mekelle University visited the field site of Abreha We Atsbeha in a semi-arid area of the Tigray Region, to unpack tree-crop-livestock interactions ...

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CIMMYT, Crop-Livestock, Crops, HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification, Malawi, Research, Southern Africa

Conservation agriculture in Malawi: “We always have problems with rain here”

Earlier this year, Africa RISING funded an ‘early win’ project in Malawi led by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). A news story from this ...

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Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Intensification, Malawi, Research, Southern Africa, Tanzania, West Africa, Zambia

Africa RISING: Update on Eastern and Southern Africa project

Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, Africa RISING Project Coordinator at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture writes: I would like to give you an update on the status of the ...

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Crop-Livestock, Crops, East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ICARDA, Intensification

Africa RISING pulse project holds inception workshop in the Bale highlands of Ethiopia

On 31 May 2012, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the Sinana Agricultural Research Center (SARC) hosted an inception workshop for ...

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