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Agricultural Extension and Participatory Approaches –co-existence 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...
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Not just technology dissemination: the multiple dimensions of scaling...
Written by Million Gebreyes, Kindu Mekonnen, Peter Thorne, Abera Adie A word cloud of Africa RISING partners in Ethiopia (photo credit: authors). The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands...
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This blog highlights the key messages of a presentation by the Africa RISING Malawi program coordinator, Regis Chikowo (Michigan State University) on 13 November 2019 at the 2019 ASA-CSSA-SSSA...
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Disseminating livestock extension information using text messages in Tanzania
A Maasai pastoralist checks his mobile phone (photo credit: Sven Torfinn/OXFAM blogs). Digital tools and platforms have become a fixture in disseminating knowledge about agricultural technologies to...
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Improving soil carbon measurements to empower African smallholders
The amount of carbon in farm soils is important to farmers. Soils with high carbon contents tend to provide better yields. They also tend to be more resilient to weather-related crop failure. But...
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No technician? No problem: Africa RISING releases 35 vernacular DIY videos on...
It is estimated that smallholder farmers in northern Ghana face postharvest losses ranging between 30–50% of the yields obtained in each cropping cycle. While northern Ghana has a great potential to...
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Francis Muthoni talks to Radio IITA about the value of applying GIS tools in...
Sustainable intensification (SI) technological options are suited for specific biophysical and socio-economic contexts, and therefore, knowledge on the spatial distribution of optimal conditions for...
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Africa RISING Program technology parks in Mali: End of an era, start of a new...
Entrance to the Africa RISING technology park in Flola Community, Southern Mali. Photo credit: Jonathan Odhong/IITA. On 11 and 12 November 2021, Africa RISING project partners, farmers and...
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Farmers lead adoption of agroforestry practices in Dodoma, Tanzania
Loti Philemon Malekela is a farmer in Nghumbi Kongwa in Dodoma, Tanzania. He is married and has six children. Though Malekela depends on small-scale farming to sustain his family, it has not been easy...
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Lead farmers drive adoption of farming technologies in Tanzania
Farmer learning activities at a training session in Karatu, Tanzania (photo credit: Inviolate Dominick/WorldVeg). Martin Nicodemus is a farmer trainer from Bashay village and a Jitambue Farmers’ Group...
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