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Animal Feeding, Brief, East Africa, Ethiopia, Faba bean, Fodder, Forages, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, SLS

Low productivity of staple crops is often attributed to the poor management practices of smallholder farmers. ‘Improved’ crop management ...

Brief, CIAT, East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, Research, SLS, Value Chains, Wheat

Ethiopia is the second largest wheat producing country in Africa after South Africa. Wheat is a major grain crop ...

Brief, East Africa, Enset, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, SARI, SLS, SNNPR

Enset (Enset ventricosum also known as ‘false banana’) is a source of food, cash, animal feed, medicine, sources of ...

Brief, East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, Research, SLS

Conventional monitoring and evaluation tools set predefined indicators of outcomes. This is usually just a quantitative process. They count ...

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

So what factors influence whether farmers will adopt new sustainable intensification practices? And what is their impact ? A ...

Groundnuts, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Intensification, Legumes, Malawi, MSU, Nutrition, Research, Southern Africa

A newly published research brief by Africa RISING offers tips on how farmers can get more yields when they ...