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Capacity strengthening, Geodata, IITA, Research, Soils, Southern Africa, Tanzania

GIS modelling reveals hotspots of soil erosion in Kongwa, Tanzania

By Africa RISING communications OnJanuary 9, 2023

Soil erosion by water and wind is a major threat to agriculture in communities living in semi-arid areas in central Tanzania. Despite the significant efforts by private ...

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Capacity strengthening, East Africa, Fertilizer, Intensification, Participation, Tanzania

Highlights of Africa RISING closing meetings in Tanzania

By Africa RISING communications OnJanuary 2, 2023

Michael Kinyua and Job Kihara As curtains come down on the implementation of Africa RISING Project activities in Tanzania; many smallholder farmers and project partners are taking ...

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Capacity strengthening, Gender

Africa RISING launches manual on participatory tools for gender-transformative decision making

By Africa RISING communications OnDecember 23, 2022

A new manual outlining how extensionists, development partners and policymakers can promote gender-transformative decision making by smallholders when introducing new technologies has been launched by the Africa ...

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

How conditional incentives like farmer inputs affect adoption of sustainable intensification

By Africa RISING communications OnOctober 25, 2022

A recent study by scientists from the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) on ‘Stimulating innovations for sustainable ...

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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

By Africa RISING communications OnSeptember 5, 2022

The Africa RISING East and Southern Africa (ESA) project has launched the ‘Sustainable agricultural intensification: A handbook for practitioners in east and southern Africa’ for extension service ...

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Ghana, IFPRI, market, West Africa

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

By Africa RISING communications OnAugust 23, 2022

Increasingly unpredictable weather, low yields, and poor access to input markets and agricultural advisory services have been severely challenging farming communities in North Ghana. Confirming this anecdotal evidence, a ...

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