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Crop-Livestock, DRYLANDSCRP, HUMIDTROPICS, IFPRI, Impact Assessment, Intensification, Interview, Staff

RISING voices: Mélanie Bacou, data management specialist (IFPRI)

By Ewen Le Borgne OnOctober 27, 2014

In this interview, Mélanie Bacou - agro-economist consultant at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and data management specialist in Africa RISING - introduces herself and ...

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East Africa, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Intensification, Southern Africa, Tanzania

USAID–Tanzania invests USD 2.2 million to support Africa RISING scale out technologies to increase productivity of smallholders

By Catherine Njuguna OnOctober 27, 2014

Africa RISING has received additional support from the USAID mission in Tanzania to scale out appropriate technologies to smallholder farmers in the maize- and rice-farming systems in ...

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DRYLANDSCRP, Ghana, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Impact Assessment, Intensification, Mali, Research, West Africa

Africa RISING West Africa project undergoes external review

By Jonathan Odhong OnOctober 22, 2014

The West Africa component of the Africa RISING program recently underwent an IITA-commissioned external review of its activities in Mali and Ghana.

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East Africa, Ethiopia, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, IFPRI, ILRI, Impact Assessment, Intensification, Research, SLS

Africa RISING Ethiopia researchers trained on IFPRI project monitoring and mapping tool

By Simret Yasabu OnOctober 22, 2014

This week, IFPRI and Africa RISING/ILRI organized a one day training for Africa RISING Ethiopia researchers on a Project Monitoring and Mapping Tool (PMMT).

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Crop-Livestock, Crops, Fertilizer, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Intensification, NRM, SARI, Soils, Tanzania

Participatory research proves effective in changing farmers misconception on fertilizers in Tanzania

By Catherine Njuguna OnOctober 13, 2014

The strongly held but wrong perception among farmers in Babati District that use of mineral fertilizers destroys the soil is a major cause of the low ...

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Amhara, CIMMYT, CIP, Crops, East Africa, Ethiopia, Feeds, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, Pests, Photofilm, Tigray, Trip Report, Weeds

Field visits to Africa RISING Ethiopia research sites in Endamehoni and Basona Worena woredas

By Ewen Le Borgne OnOctober 10, 2014

This photo trip report covers visits by the Africa RISING research teams to Endamehoni woreda in July 2014 and Basona Worena woreda in August 2014. The visits ...

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