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East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, SLS

Africa RISING in Ethiopia – How are we doing?

By Simret Yasabu OnApril 10, 2015

It is some time since I have been able to visit our field sites in Ethiopia. The Christmas break and our jaunts in India and California seem ...

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Capacity strengthening, Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, SLS

Capacity building strategies and approaches for the Africa RISING Ethiopia project

By Simret Yasabu OnApril 8, 2015

The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian Highlands promotes capacity building for human resources development and strengthening local partner organizations in a range of ways, all of ...

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Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Innovation Systems, Intensification, Knowledge and Information, Scaling, SLS

Innovation platforms – scaling research findings in Lemo, Ethiopia

By Zelalem Lema OnApril 6, 2015

The 2nd Lemo woreda Innovation platform (IP) meeting was held on 19th Feb 2015 in Hosanna, the capital of the woreda. The focus of the meeting was ...

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Ghana, HUMIDTROPICS, ICRISAT, IFPRI, IITA, ILRI, Intensification, Mali, Research, West Africa

Time to prioritize: West Africa partners make plans for 2015 field season activities

By Jonathan Odhong OnApril 2, 2015

The review and planning meeting of the Africa RISING West Africa project ended on 25 March 2015 with partners committing to take integration of research activities a ...

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Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification, Scaling

Africa RISING Ethiopia project scaling plan

By Simret Yasabu OnMarch 20, 2015

The current phase of the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian Highlands is being implemented over the five years from 2012-2016. To date, the project has implemented ...

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East Africa, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, IFPRI, IITA, Impact Assessment, Innovation Systems, Intensification, Malawi, MSU, Report, Research, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Africa RISING ESA external review team praises research work, calls for improved efforts to ensure technologies are adopted by small holder farmers

By Jonathan Odhong OnMarch 18, 2015

The IITA commissioned external review of Africa RISING East and Southern Africa project concluded on 16 March after nearly five weeks of literature review, project stakeholder ...

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