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Creating space for multi-stakeholder engagement for sustainable agricultural intensification

By Simret Yasabu OnJanuary 3, 2019

The third International Learning Alliance (ILA) for sustainable intensification meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, in July 2018, opened up the space for a multi-stakeholder engagement and process in ...

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Ethiopia, ILRI, Intensification, Scaling

Africa RISING technologies are Reaching out to more Farmers through Development Partnership

By Simret Yasabu OnJanuary 3, 2019

In its second phase, the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands is working with several development partners to scale validated technologies to wider areas. Graduation with ...

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CIMMYT, Conservation agriculture, Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, ILRI, Intensification, Postharvest, Scaling

Changing Lives through Service Provision- the Story of Beyene’s Abebe

By Simret Yasabu OnJanuary 3, 2019

Beyene Abebe is a 24-year-old small mechanization service provider in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. Among the different service providers working in the small mechanization project, Beyene ...

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Ethiopia, Extension, ILRI, Innovation Systems, Intensification, Knowledge and Information, Oromia, Participation, SAIRLA, Trip Report

Agricultural Extension and Participatory Approaches –co-existence approaches in the agricultural advisory service approaches

By Simret Yasabu OnJanuary 3, 2019

Million Getnet Gebreyes works at ILRI as a consultant. He is the National Learning facilitator for SAIRLA- NLA in Ethiopia and Innovation Platform facilitator for Africa RISING ...

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Crop Residues, Ethiopia, SAIRLA, Sheep, Small Ruminants, Tigray

Atsbi decision makers exploring the future of their livestock value chain : You can’t have your sheep and eat it

By Simret Yasabu OnJanuary 3, 2019

With the increasing population and wealth, demand for animal source food such as milk and meat is expected to almost double in the next 10 years in ...

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Crop-Livestock, Fodder, ICRISAT, IITA, Intensification, MAIZECRP, Mali, Scaling, Sorghum, West Africa

Dual-purpose sorghum varieties improving food and feed security for crop-livestock farmers in southern Mali

By Jonathan Odhong OnDecember 3, 2018

Over the past two years, the Africa RISING program has been working with various partners in southern Mali to introduce high yielding, farmer (and livestock) preferred dual-purpose ...

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