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Crop-Livestock, Malawi, PCT, Tanzania

External Review Team visit to Africa RISING sites in Malawi and Tanzania – a photo report

Photo report of a visit by Africa RISING external reviewers to project sites in Malawi and Tanzania.

By Africa RISING communications OnApril 3, 2020

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East Africa, Ethiopia, IFPRI, IITA, ILRI, Impact Assessment, PCT, Research

Review team commences visits to Africa RISING activity sites

After two months of document reviews, The scientists carrying out the Africa RISING program external review, Christine Negra, Nancy McCarthy and Mark Powell, are currently visiting intervention communities in the Ethiopian highlands, having already visited activity sites in northern Ghana (15–21 ...

By Africa RISING communications OnOctober 2, 2019

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Crop-Livestock, IFPRI, IITA, ILRI, Intensification, LIVESTOCKCRP, MAIZECRP, Malawi, PCT, poster, Presentation, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Zambia

Missed the Africa RISING Learning Event 2019? You can access all the material here

The Africa RISING Program Learning Event 2019 took place on 5–8 February in Malawi. Below is a list of links to the presentations, discussion and photos from the event.

By Jonathan Odhong OnMarch 13, 2019

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Crop-Livestock, Ethiopia, Event, Ghana, IFPRI, IITA, ILRI, LIVESTOCKCRP, MAIZECRP, Malawi, Mali, PCT, Tanzania, Trip Report, Zambia

Photo report on the Africa RISING Program Learning Event 2019

In more than a thousand words, this collection of elegant photos taken during the Africa RISING Program Learning Event provides a summary of how the whole meeting unfolded.

By Africa RISING communications OnMarch 8, 2019

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Event, IITA, LIVESTOCKCRP, MAIZECRP, Malawi, PCT, Southern Africa

What’s in a name? Africa RISING partners aim for common understanding of terminologies

What do words like 'innovation', 'spillover', 'adoption', and 'technology' mean to you? At the Africa RISING Program Learning Event on 5-8 February 2019, implementing partners had a go at establishing common meanings to words that are frequently used within the program.

By Jonathan Odhong OnMarch 8, 2019

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Crop-Livestock, Event, IITA, Interview, LIVESTOCKCRP, MAIZECRP, Malawi, PCT, Southern Africa

Operationalizing the Sustainable Intensification Assessment Framework: An interview with Vara Prasad

Vara Prasad, director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Sustainable Intensification (SIIL) talks about the Sustainable Intensification Assessment Framework, its applications, lessons learnt since it was unveiled and why it is the go-to tool for assessing systems research interventions.

By Jonathan Odhong OnMarch 5, 2019

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Advisory group re-formed to spearhead science for development in Africa RISING

The newly-formed Science Advisory Group (SAG) was formed for the first time in Africa RISING's phase I at a meeting that brought together SAG members, most of the program coordination team and the people championing four of the Africa RISING communities ...

By Ewen Le Borgne OnJuly 17, 2017

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Connecting research-in-development dots and investing in dynamic scaling pathways – Africa RISING phase2 kicks off with science for impact event

What’s new in Africa RISING? What are the intrinsic changes to the DNA of the program? How will the project achieve these high impact developmental objectives? Does the project completely shift its focus from research to development?

By Jonathan Odhong OnFebruary 3, 2017

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Africa RISING Program Coordination Team update

The second Africa RISING program coordination team meeting was held virtually on 24 June 2013. Participants reviewing actions points and progress updates from the three Africa RISING projects in East and Southern Africa, West Africa and the Ethiopian highlands, from USAID, ...

By Simret Yasabu OnJune 27, 2013

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First Africa RISING Program Coordination Team meeting held in Ghana

Comprising three linked regions projects, Africa RISING has put in place several integration and learning mechanisms at the overall program level. These include a monitoring and evaluation project led by IFPRI and a communication activity led by ILRI. An overall Program ...

By Ewen Le Borgne OnFebruary 4, 2013

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