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Climate change, Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification, Irrigation, IWMI, Report, SNNPR, Vegetables, Water, WLE

Water management knowledge key in small-scale irrigation development

By Simret Yasabu OnAugust 28, 2017

This report shares findings from a study by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Africa RISING program team which evaluated suitable water lifting and on-farm ...

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Africa, Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, ILRI, Intensification, Irrigation, Livestock, LIVESTOCKCRP, Report, Value Chains

Report of first six months of Africa RISING Phase II in Ethiopia

By Simret Yasabu OnAugust 25, 2017

A report on the first six months (1 October 2016–30 March 2017) of the second phase of the Africa RISING program activities in southern Ethiopia is now available.

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CIP, Crops, IITA, Intensification, MAIZECRP, Nutrition, Potato, Southern Africa, Value Chains, Women, Zambia, ZARI

Farmer finds a sweet spot producing orange-fleshed sweet potato vines and roots during the dry season in Zambia

By Jonathan Odhong OnAugust 22, 2017

Farmer finds a sweet spot producing orange-fleshed sweetpotato vines and roots during the dry season in Zambia.

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Capacity strengthening, CIAT, Extension, Gender, IITA, Intensification, Knowledge and Information, MAIZECRP, SARI, Scaling, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Empowering agricultural extension agents to deliver improved farming technologies

By Jonathan Odhong OnAugust 15, 2017

The Africa RISING project team is taking improved technologies to scale targeting thousands of farmers beyond the communities where the validation was done. This wider focus is ...

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Crops, Event, IITA, Intensification, Maize, MAIZECRP, nafaka, Scaling, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Value Chains

Africa RISING–NAFAKA project legacy under the lens in end-of-phase one review

By Jonathan Odhong OnAugust 10, 2017

On 3-4 July 2017, partners involved in the Africa RISING – NAFAKA project implementation came together to review achievements made during a largely successful run of the ...

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Africa, Crop-Livestock, Crops, East Africa, Gender, Intensification, Livestock, MAIZECRP, Report, Research, Southern Africa, West Africa, Women

Africa RISING 2017 gender action plan published

By Jonathan Odhong OnAugust 3, 2017

The 2017 gender action plan for the two International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)-led Africa RISING projects in West Africa and East/Southern Africa is now available.

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