Peter Thorne

Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, Faba bean, ILRI, Legumes, Research

Podcast: Optimizing food-feed production in smallholder systems

In a recent interview with Field, Lab, Earth, the American Society of Agronomy podcast, Dr. Peter Throne shared about a recent study by the Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands project.

By Haimanot Seifu OnJuly 12, 2022

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Crop-Livestock, East Africa, Ethiopia, Groundnuts, ILRI, Intensification, Malawi, MSU, Presentation, Southern Africa

Sustainable intensification: Is a systems perspective essential for integrated crop-livestock systems?

Intensification of production can take many forms, for example, the one that underpinned the Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s helped humanity keep food production at pace with population growth. However, the present context has changed and ensuring sustainability is ...

By Africa RISING communications OnJanuary 16, 2020

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What sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems looks like in Ethiopia—case of the Africa RISING project

IIn this video, Peter Thorne, the Africa RISING project coordinator in Ethiopia, and Melkamu Bezabih, a postdoctoral livestock feeds and nutrition researcher, talk about sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems in Ethiopia in the Africa RISING project.

By Simret Yasabu OnApril 19, 2018

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