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Africa, Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, ICRISAT, Intensification

Tackling sustainable intensification in Ethiopia – No one institution can do it alone

By Peter Ballantyne OnMarch 31, 2012

Speaking at the recent workshop t design a new research project on the sustainable intensification of crop-livestock farming systems in Ethiopia, Tsedeke Abate (ICRISAT) emphasized the collaboration ...

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Africa, Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Research, Southern Africa, Tanzania, West Africa

Designing the Africa RISING Feed the Future program to sustainably intensify farming systems

By Ewen Le Borgne OnMarch 27, 2012

In the past few months, the new ‘Africa RISING’ (Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation) program has emerged from  a process of discussion and ...

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Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Intensification, Malawi, Mali, Research, Southern Africa, Tanzania, West Africa, Zambia

Monitoring and evaluation: IFPRI seeks post-doctoral fellow to work on Africa RISING M&E strategy

By Ewen Le Borgne OnMarch 16, 2012

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks a Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) for its HarvestChoice team in the Environment and Production Technology Division. The PDF will work closely ...

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Africa, DRYLANDSCRP, East Africa, HUMIDTROPICS, Intensification, Malawi, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Zambia

Sustainable intensification of cereal-based farming systems in East and Southern Africa

By Peter Ballantyne OnFebruary 13, 2012

Last week, 80 people from Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi met in Dar es Salaam to design a new ‘Feed the Future‘ project (supported by the United States ...

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Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, Humid Tropics, HUMIDTROPICS, ICARDA, IFPRI, ILRI, Intensification, IWMI, NRM, Research, Soils, Water

Sustainable intensification in the Ethiopian highlands agricultural systems: Designing the project

By ILRI Communications OnFebruary 1, 2012

Around 60 experts are gathered this week at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for a four-day project design workshop on an exciting ...

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Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, HUMIDTROPICS

Preparing the Ethiopia Highlands crop-livestock intensification project – Help needed

By ILRI Communications OnJanuary 17, 2012

We at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) have led a small consortium of CGIAR, USAID and Ethiopian research partners in drafting a concept note for the ...

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