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Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Innovation Systems, Intensification, Knowledge and Information, SLS

Guidelines to establish innovation platforms with Africa RISING partners in Ethiopia

By Simret Yasabu OnFebruary 10, 2015

The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands aims to establish Innovation platforms(IPs) at different levels to better involve many local stakeholders to address common challenges and ...

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Aflatoxins, Crops, East Africa, Food safety, Gender, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Intensification, Interview, Nutrition, Postharvest, Research, Tanzania, Value Chains

Securing the Future: The Story of Chacha Nyangi and how Africa RISING is mentoring the next generation of scientists

By Jonathan Odhong OnFebruary 9, 2015

Growing up in the remote village of Itiryo near the Kenya-Tanzania border, Chacha Nyangi could not have imagined his present life as a young Tanzanian scientist who ...

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Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, Interview, SLS

In Ethiopia, ‘our research approach must be problem solving’ – Kindu Mekonnen

By Simret Yasabu OnJanuary 28, 2015

Africa RISING's Kindu Mekonnen works for the International Livestock Research Institute in Ethiopia as a Crop and Livestock System Scientist. He was recently interviewed by the Ethiopian ...

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Crops, East Africa, Ethiopia, Event, Extension, HUMIDTROPICS, ICARDA, ILRI, Intensification, Knowledge and Information, Participation, Research

Farmer research groups central to Africa RISING approach in Ethiopia

By Zelalem Lema OnJanuary 26, 2015

On 13 December 2014, members of the Sinana innovation platform (IP) members and technical group (TG) held a farmers field day that attracted many farmers and others ...

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HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification, Knowledge and Information

Africa RISING most popular online products and resources in 2014

By Ewen Le Borgne OnJanuary 22, 2015

Find out what were the most popular website articles, outputs of all kinds and other statistics about Africa RISING research.

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Amhara, East Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, IWMI, NRM, Photofilm, SLS, SNNPR, Tigray, Trip Report, Water

Africa RISING partners with local governments to support integrated watershed management in Ethiopia

By Simret Yasabu OnJanuary 20, 2015

Africa RISING in Ethiopia has started to work with partners and farmers to identify and work on model watersheds in three of its research sites: Lemo, Basona ...

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