Intensification

Climate change, Drylands, ICRISAT, MAIZECRP, Mali, WLE

How contour bunding and other technologies can reduce soil erosion and raise productivity in African watersheds

Constructing contour bunding helps to retain soil and nutrients, reduce land degradation and increase crop productivity. Significantly, implementing contour bunding reduces soil loss by 163%, and the majority of farmers (78%) perceive that they earned a higher income from crops sown ...

By Africa RISING communications OnOctober 14, 2020

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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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The level of women farmers’ participation in five stages of the agricultural research process and implications for food security in Ethiopia

Empowerment is central to women’s participation in agricultural research and to boost their role in agriculture and contribution to food security. To do so it is important to understand the current level of their participation and the factors that influence their ...

By Simret Yasabu OnJanuary 17, 2018

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Farmers get guidelines for managing and using fodder in Ethiopia

The project team used the preliminary results of this research to develop guidelines for training farmers on how to manage fodder varieties in order to maximize benefits from them.

By Simret Yasabu OnDecember 19, 2017

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Kongwa District Council and Africa RISING rally to fight hunger in rural Tanzania

The Africa RISING project in Tanzania recently got merited recognition by the Kongwa District Council as a project that provides farmers with practical improved agricultural technologies that can be applied to fight hunger in the District.

By Jonathan Odhong OnNovember 17, 2016

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Monica Paschal: portrait of a successful vegetable and poultry farmer

Monica Paschal is a 48-year-old farmer and a mother of five. She has been involved in small-scale farming for 27 years and refers to herself as ‘mkulima wa kujikimu’ (Swahili for smallholder/subsistence farmer). ‘The past three years have been the most satisfying ...

By Jonathan Odhong OnAugust 30, 2016

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Intensifying maize production in integrated crop-livestock farming systems in northern Ghana

An Africa RISING research brief explains the effect of sheep and goat stocking density (SSD) on grain yield and soil properties in small-scale mixed farming systems.

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 21, 2015

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Rural pig rearing survey unlocks intensification pathways in northern Ghana

Researchers from the University for Development Studies and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology conducted a baseline survey to identify key factors that affect pig rearing and prospects for intensification and integration with crop production.

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 17, 2015

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New Africa RISING geospatial maps show cropping patterns and land use changes in Mali

Africa RISING and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT) geospatial unit in India have developed land use maps of Africa RISING project intervention sites in southern Mali.

By Jonathan Odhong OnSeptember 16, 2015

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