Blog Style Three

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 ...

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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; ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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05

Sep

Crop-Livestock, East Africa, IITA, Intensification, Malawi, Report, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Zambia

Africa RISING launches handbook of validated farming technologies from 11-years’ of research in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia

The Africa RISING East and Southern Africa (ESA) project has launched the ‘Sustainable agricultural intensification: A handbook for practitioners ...

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23

Aug

Ghana, IFPRI, market, West Africa

How does access to agricultural markets relate to yield, food security, and poverty in northern Ghana?

Increasingly unpredictable weather, low yields, and poor access to input markets and agricultural advisory services have been severely challenging farming communities ...

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