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Ethiopian Highlands review and planning meeting: consultation, reflection and action!

By Ewen Le Borgne OnSeptember 24, 2012

The inception phase of Africa RISING is coming to an end on 30 September. All ‘jumpstart activities’ and ‘early win’ projects from this phase have to be ...

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Africa, Animal Feeding, Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ICARDA, ILRI, Intensification

Project implementation lessons from the feed and fodder ‘early win’ project

By Peter Ballantyne OnSeptember 24, 2012

The Africa RISING ‘early win‘ projects were an experiment in quick project development. Participants at the recent synthesis meeting of the QuickFeed project reflected on some of ...

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Africa, Agroforestry, Crop-Livestock, Crops, HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification, Malawi, NRM, Research, Soils, Southern Africa, Trees, Water

Integrating perennials with food crops could restore soil health and increase staple yields

By Peter Ballantyne OnSeptember 20, 2012

Today’s edition of Naturehas an article by Jerry Glover, John Reganold and Cindy Cox in which they explain, with examples from Malawi harmer Rhoda Mang’yana, how planting ...

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Africa, Animal Feeding, Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS, ICARDA, ILRI, Intensification, Participation

Feed and fodder ‘early win’ project synthesis shows potential of assessment tools

By Peter Ballantyne OnSeptember 18, 2012

The Africa RISING QuickFeed ‘early win’ project held its synthesis meeting on 3 and 4 September 2012. The project was led by ILRI and ICARDA with the ...

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CIMMYT, ILRI, Intensification, Participation, Research

Participatory agricultural research for development – whose participation, whose research, whose development?

By Ewen Le Borgne OnSeptember 17, 2012

Compared with other Ethiopian Highland early win projects, the  ‘Research for Development‘ project focused on the research process so as to propose a flexible and generic approach to ...

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Africa, CIMMYT, Crop-Livestock, HUMIDTROPICS, ILRI, Intensification, Participation

Participatory research for development in Africa RISING – an email exchange

By Ewen Le Borgne OnSeptember 13, 2012

Over the last few days, in relation with an upcoming final workshop for the ‘farm scale research design‘ early win project, an interesting e-mail exchange took place between Prof. ...

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