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Africa, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS

Africa RISING in Ethiopia – first year lays strong foundations

By Peter Ballantyne OnOctober 27, 2012

Feed the Future recently highlighted Africa RISING’s participatory research in Ethiopia to empower farmers to implement sustainable intensification, meaning they will ultimately be able to generate more ...

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Crops, Drylands, DRYLANDSCRP, ICRISAT, Intensification, Mali, Research, West Africa

Africa RISING in Mali: a forward-looking update by Eva Weltzien

By Ewen Le Borgne OnOctober 17, 2012

Eva Weltzien works for the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Mali. In Africa RISING, Eva oversees scientific activities in Mali. In this ...

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Crop-Livestock, Ghana, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Intensification, Mali, Research, West Africa

Preparing for the Africa RISING West Africa review and planning meeting: Interview with Asamoah Larbi

By Ewen Le Borgne OnOctober 15, 2012

Asamoah Larbi is chief scientist for the Guinea Savannah region of Africa RISING in West Africa. He attended the recent East and Southern Africa review and planning ...

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DRYLANDSCRP, HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification

Integration, cross-learning, synergies: Keywords for the next Africa RISING phase in East and Southern Africa

By Ewen Le Borgne OnOctober 11, 2012

Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, coordinator of the East and Southern Africa region for Africa RISING, answered some questions following the recently completed annual review and planning meeting for Africa ...

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Crop-Livestock, Crops, East Africa, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification, Research, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Africa RISING charts strategic roadmap to boost productivity of smallholder mixed-farming growers in East and Southern Africa

By ILRI Communications OnOctober 9, 2012

Mixed-farming smallholder growers in East and Southern Africa are slated to see a boost in their production and productivity resulting from a strategy that will see agricultural ...

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East Africa, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, IITA, Malawi, Research, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Zambia

Looking back at the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa review and planning meeting: Interviewing Mateete Bekunda

By Ewen Le Borgne OnOctober 6, 2012

Mateete Bekunda joined Africa RISING in April this year as the Farming Systems Agronomist for the East and Southern Africa region. He kindly accepted to share his views about the recent ...

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