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Capacity strengthening, Ethiopia, Fruit, ICRAF, Intensification, Trees

Apple tree management focus for training in three Africa RISING Ethiopia sites

By Simret Yasabu OnApril 27, 2015

In January and February this year, ICRAF and partners from the Africa RISING Ethiopia project ran training in apple tree management at three sites (Endamehoni, Sinana and ...

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CIMMYT, East Africa, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Maize, Tanzania, Video

In pursuit of a solution for maize lethal necrosis disease in East Africa

By Jonathan Odhong OnApril 23, 2015

In this five-minute video, Bright Jumbo, the Africa RISING research lead on the management of maize lethal necrosis disease, explains the progress made by the team as ...

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HUMIDTROPICS, ICRISAT, IITA, Mali, Nutrition, Participation, Research, West Africa, Women

Women ‘nutrition leaders’ changing the fate of children in Mali

By Jonathan Odhong OnApril 16, 2015

Africa RISING is contributing to changing the fates of children in Koutiala city in the Sikasso region of Mali by supporting an initiative to educate young mothers ...

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Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Impact Assessment, Innovation Systems, Intensification, Knowledge and Information, Participation, SLS

Measuring innovation platform contributions through participatory monitoring and evaluation

By Elias Damtew OnApril 15, 2015

It has not easy to measure innovation platforms (IPs) contribution to research and development outcomes. From ILRI’s experience, the complex nature of issues that IPs try to ...

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HUMIDTROPICS, ICRISAT, IITA, Intensification, Legumes, Maize, Mali, Seeds, West Africa

‘A good farmer produces their own seeds’: Raising food yields in Mali

By Jonathan Odhong OnApril 13, 2015

Souleman Ballo and his fellow farmers in the seed cooperative know only too well how important good seeds are for a farmer’s wealth. To address the challenge ...

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Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification

Africa RISING Ethiopia project trains survey enumerators

By Simret Yasabu OnApril 10, 2015

To prepare a household survey on sustainable intensification in Ethiopia, the project held a training workshop for enumerators and supervisors on 2 and 3 April 2015.

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