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CIP, Ethiopia, Intensification, Interview, Nutrition, Staff

RISING voices: Mariama Fofanah, nutrition specialist at the International Potato Center (CIP)

By Ewen Le Borgne OnSeptember 29, 2015

Mariama Fofanah, nutrition specialist at the International Potato Center (CIP), introduces herself and her work with the program. It is one of a series of portraits of ...

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East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, ILRIComms, Innovation Systems, Intensification, Knowledge and Information, NRM, Research, Social Learning

Social learning for farming systems – Insights from Africa RISING in Ethiopia

By Ewen Le Borgne OnSeptember 28, 2015

Addressing the question of how to sustainably intensify farming systems can benefit from collaborative and iterative social learning processes. This post reflects on what Africa RISING is ...

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East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Innovation Systems, Intensification, Oromia, Potato, SLS

Africa RISING Ethiopia local partners join hands to scale farmer-preferred technologies

By Zelalem Lema OnSeptember 25, 2015

Since 2013, the Africa RISING project in Sinana district (woreda) has engaged local partners in its research for development interventions in two villages (kebeles) to test and ...

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Brief, DRYLANDSCRP, IITA, Intensification, Legumes, Malawi, Pigeonpea, Research, Southern Africa

Doubled-up legume technology in Malawi boosts land productivity

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 25, 2015

A newly published brief by Africa RISING explains how the doubled-up legume technology works and how to get optimum yields using the technology.

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Brief, CIAT, CIP, Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ICRISAT, ILRI, Intensification, SLS

Briefs document emerging results from Africa RISING projects

By Simret Yasabu OnSeptember 24, 2015

The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands recently organized a writeshop to heklp researchers document and generate results and evidence from their work. As well as ...

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Crop-Livestock, Ghana, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Impact Assessment, Intensification, West Africa

Africa RISING technologies offer Ghana farmers opportunity to earn three times more

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 23, 2015

Results from an indicative cost-benefit-analysis in northern Ghana show that farmers are getting three times more (300%), over and above their total expenditures when using the Africa ...

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