Southern Africa

CIAT, Crop-Livestock, IITA, ILRI, Intensification, M&E, Maize, Malawi, Partners, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Filling the missing pieces: ESA partners set targets for collating sustainable intensification data

During the 2019 review and planning meeting held on 10-11 September, Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Project partners set their sights on consolidating systems research outputs from the project and getting the right measure of the sustainable intensification qualities of ...

By Africa RISING communications OnSeptember 27, 2019

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AVRDC, CIAT, CIMMYT, Crop-Livestock, ICRISAT, IITA, ILRI, Intensification, MAIZECRP, nafaka, SARI, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Trip Report

In pictures: the 2019 Africa RISING Tanzania monitoring visit

This is a collection of select photos taken during a recent monitoring visit to project sites in Tanzania. Have a look to see what Africa RISING has been up to in Tanzania lately.

By Africa RISING communications OnJuly 23, 2019

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Crop-Livestock, IITA, Intensification, Maize, MAIZECRP, nafaka, Postharvest, Scaling, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Adopting good agricultural practises was the game changer I needed!

Embracing good agricultural practices in lessons from the project has turned around the fortunes of Method Magoda, a 39-year-old farmer from Utengule Village in Kilolo District, Tanzania.

By Africa RISING communications OnJune 25, 2019

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IITA, Intensification, Maize, MAIZECRP, nafaka, Postharvest, Scaling, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Mechanized maize shelling transforms lives in rural Tanzania

Farmer Kassim Lebora has transformed a technology introduced by the Africa RISING project into a thriving maize shelling business that is creating jobs for the youth in Dahinda village, Mvomero District in Morogoro Tanzania.

By Africa RISING communications OnJune 18, 2019

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Crop-Livestock, IITA, ILRI, Intensification, Livestock, MAIZECRP, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Video

Next generation RISING (video)

In this video 21-year old Olais Lukumay shares why he opted not to seek formal employment unlike most of his age mates. This is the story of youth engagement and technology transfer from one generation to the next within the Africa ...

By Jonathan Odhong OnApril 23, 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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Event, IITA, Intensification, LIVESTOCKCRP, MAIZECRP, Malawi, Southern Africa

Africa RISING Learning Event 2019 – participants reflections and takeaways

Partners from six Africa RISING project countries reflect on the Africa RISING Program Learning Event held on 5–8 February in Malawi.

By Africa RISING communications OnMarch 11, 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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IITA, Intensification, Maize, MAIZECRP, Postharvest, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Exploring farmers’ willingness to pay for small-scale maize shelling machines in Tanzania

This poster presents the findings of a study that explored Tanzanian smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for small-scale maize shelling machines and identified factors affecting willingness to pay among farmers.

By Jonathan Odhong OnMarch 4, 2019

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