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Africa, Animal Feeding, Crop-Livestock, Dairying, East Africa, Forages, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, Livestock, Research, SLS, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Africa RISING making a FEAST for cattle in Babati District, Northern Tanzania

By Peter Ballantyne OnDecember 21, 2016

Originally published in Forages for the Future Newsletter, issue 3, December 2016 Livestock in Tanzania are largely underfed with farmers meeting only 65% of feed needs in ...

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CIAT, CIMMYT, CIP, Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ICARDA, ICRAF, ICRISAT, ILRI, Intensification, IWMI, Research, SLS, SNNPR

Ethiopian farmers are intensifying and integrating Africa RISING interventions in a stepwise fashion

By Simret Yasabu OnDecember 12, 2016

Seventeen core action-oriented interventions have been introduced by the Africa RISING project in Ethiopia and validated under diverse socioeconomic and agro-ecological conditions. Over the years, researchers engaged ...

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Africa, Geodata, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Intensification, poster, Scaling, Tanzania

Africa RISING ESA posters on scaling techniques win top honours

By Jonathan Odhong OnDecember 8, 2016

Two posters on scaling techniques applied by the Africa RISING project in Tanzania were recently ranked 2nd and 3rd at a poster competition featuring over 50 entries ...

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East Africa, Ethiopia, Fruit, HUMIDTROPICS, ICRAF, ILRI, Intensification, SLS, SNNPR, Trees

Beyond adoption – fruit farmers in Ethiopia are innovating with their Africa RISING technologies

By Simret Yasabu OnDecember 7, 2016

The Africa RISING project in Ethiopia has been promoting improved high-value fruit trees, such as improved avocado and apple varieties. Take up has been good, but ...

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Climate change, East Africa, HUMIDTROPICS, ICRISAT, IITA, Intensification, Scaling, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Kongwa District Council and Africa RISING rally to fight hunger in rural Tanzania

By Jonathan Odhong OnNovember 17, 2016

The Africa RISING project in Tanzania recently got merited recognition by the Kongwa District Council as a project that provides farmers with practical improved agricultural technologies that ...

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Agroforestry, East Africa, Ethiopia, Forestry, HUMIDTROPICS, ICRAF, Intensification, Trees

Intensifying with high value trees in Africa RISING Ethiopia – some reflections from the first phase

By Simret Yasabu OnNovember 7, 2016

As I write this piece to share the progress of high value trees research protocol, several circumstances, mostly the first Africa RISING project inception meeting in 2012, ...

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