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East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Innovation Systems, Intensification, Oromia, Potato, SLS

Africa RISING Ethiopia local partners join hands to scale farmer-preferred technologies

Since 2013, the Africa RISING project in Sinana district (woreda) has engaged local partners in its research for development interventions in two villages (kebeles) to test and ...

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Brief, DRYLANDSCRP, IITA, Intensification, Legumes, Malawi, Pigeonpea, Research, Southern Africa

Doubled-up legume technology in Malawi boosts land productivity

A newly published brief by Africa RISING explains how the doubled-up legume technology works and how to get optimum yields using the technology.

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Brief, CIAT, CIP, Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ICRISAT, ILRI, Intensification, SLS

Briefs document emerging results from Africa RISING projects

The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands recently organized a writeshop to heklp researchers document and generate results and evidence from their work. As well as ...

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Crop-Livestock, Ghana, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Impact Assessment, Intensification, West Africa

Africa RISING technologies offer Ghana farmers opportunity to earn three times more

Results from an indicative cost-benefit-analysis in northern Ghana show that farmers are getting three times more (300%), over and above their total expenditures when using the Africa ...

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