Agricultural Extension

Extension, Field Day, IITA, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Vegetables

Lead farmers drive adoption of farming technologies in Tanzania

Africa RISING 's farmer-to-farmer trainers' approach paying huge dividends in enhancing the adoption of improved agricultural practices and technologies in Tanzania's Karatu District.

By Africa RISING communications OnAugust 5, 2022

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CIAT, Crops, Extension, Maize, Malawi, Mobile, Presentation, Scaling, Southern Africa

Disseminating maize agronomy technologies using interactive voice response in Malawi–the opportunities and pitfalls

In 2018, the Africa RISING team in Malawi initiated a pilot activity to establish the efficacy of interactive voice response (IVR) in disseminating maize agronomy messages to farmers. This blog presents some of the lessons learnt so far from the activity.

By Africa RISING communications OnJanuary 12, 2020

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Agricultural Extension and Participatory Approaches –co-existence approaches in the agricultural advisory service approaches

Million Getnet Gebreyes works at ILRI as a consultant. He is the National Learning facilitator for SAIRLA- NLA in Ethiopia and Innovation Platform facilitator for Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands. Recently (June 30- July 8, 2018), he was at ...

By Simret Yasabu OnJanuary 3, 2019

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