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CIMMYT, Conservation agriculture, Cowpea, DRYLANDSCRP, Intensification, Research, Southern Africa, Zambia

Drought-tolerant cowpea has become an attractive crop among rural Zambian farmers, thanks to USAID’s Feed the Future initiative in ...

CIMMYT, Conservation agriculture, DRYLANDSCRP, Extension, Intensification, Maize, Research, Southern Africa, Zambia

Good agriculture practices (GAPs) are the low-hanging fruits for extension of new technologies. They are easily adoptable, give farmers ...

CIMMYT, Conservation agriculture, DRYLANDSCRP, Intensification, Research, Southern Africa, Zambia

Remarkable results are emerging from Africa RISING project activities in Eastern Province of Zambia. More than 20,000 farmers have ...

CIMMYT, Conservation agriculture, Crop-Livestock, DRYLANDSCRP, Intensification, Manure, Research, Southern Africa, Zambia

In the cropping season of 2015/2016, Africa RISING expanded its work in Zambia under the Sustainable Intensification theme to ...

Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, Gender, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, LIVESTOCKCRP, PIL, Research, SLS, Women

This literature review employs a community capital’s framework to provide a holistic perspective of the stock and interaction between ...

Africa, Event, IFPRI, IITA, ILRI, Intensification, LIVESTOCKCRP, MAIZECRP, PCT, Research, Scaling

What’s new in Africa RISING? What are the intrinsic changes to the DNA of the program? How will the ...