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CIMMYT, Climate change, Crop-Livestock, ICRAF, ICRISAT, IITA, Intensification, Interview, Maize, MAIZECRP, Scaling, Southern Africa, Tanzania

What sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems looks like in Tanzania

By Jonathan Odhong OnAugust 27, 2018

This video highlights how through Africa RISING program interventions, a group of farmers at Mlali Village in central Tanzania are today making choices that will ensure they ...

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ARI Dakawa, IITA, Intensification, MAIZECRP, nafaka, Rice, Scaling, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Growing an improved rice variety without applying good agricultural practices is like having a bicycle with a flat tire

By Jonathan Odhong OnAugust 6, 2018

How Neema Hussein, a rice farmer from Mbarali District in the southern highlands of Tanzania improved her rice yields.

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AVRDC, Crops, IITA, Intensification, MAIZECRP, Mali, Research, Vegetables, West Africa

Rio Grande tomato variety captures the affection of women farmers in southern Mali

By Jonathan Odhong OnJuly 16, 2018

Over the past six years, Sitan Coulibaly has been one of the 114 women farmers involved in validating high-performing, dry season-adapted and farmer-preferred vegetable varieties as a ...

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Animal Feeding, Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, Feeds, Fodder, Forages, ILRI, Intensification, Livestock

Desho and Napier grasses help Ethiopian smallholders produce year-round forage

By Simret Yasabu OnJuly 12, 2018

The seventh edition of the Forages for the Future newsletter published in June 2018 recognized the contributions of Africa RISING program in promoting Desho grass as a source ...

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Capacity strengthening, Crop-Livestock, Crops, East Africa, Ethiopia, Faba bean, Ghana, IITA, ILRI, Intensification, Legumes, Livestock, LIVESTOCKCRP, MAIZECRP, Report, Research, Soils, Tigray

The value of systems research—reflections from Africa RISING partners

By Simret Yasabu OnJune 11, 2018

In this blog post, some of the key Africa RISING partners share their views on the value of a farming systems research approach and Africa RISING's contribution ...

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Africa, CIMMYT, Crop-Livestock, Crops, Ethiopia, Extension, Fertilizer, Ghana, ICARDA, ICRISAT, IITA, ILRI, Impact Assessment, Intensification, Livestock, LIVESTOCKCRP, MAIZECRP, Mali, NRM, Report, Scaling, Tanzania, Value Chains, Zambia

Africa RISING Phase I—what it took, what it gave, our proudest achievements

By Jonathan Odhong OnJune 6, 2018

Through the voices of seven Africa RISING implementing partners from Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Tanzania and Zambia; we get insights about what it took to implement Africa RISING ...

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