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Research helps parents ‘give milk’ to improve nutrition and livelihoods in Rwanda
May 28, 2019 Editor 0
This blog was originally posted on the Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems website. by Judy Kimani, International Livestock Research Institute Gabura Amata Mubyeyi, translated from Kinyarwanda, means “Parents, Give Milk.” This phrase communicates one of the core messages resulting from an ongoing research project in Rwanda. Many parents and other farmers are learning how to […]
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Nurturing a network of policy analysts in Kenyan agriculture
May 28, 2019 Editor 0
A new initiative, dubbed ‘Nurturing a network of policy analysts for enhanced agricultural development and food and nutrition security in Kenya’ is seeking to empower scientists to be better translators of their research, with the aim of making agricultural policies and practices more science-based. Led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in collaboration with […]
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Africa RISING takes part in preseason agribusiness networking forum in Tamale, Ghana
May 28, 2019 Editor 0
Africa RISING partners at the 9th Annual Preseason Agribusiness Networking and Exhibition Forum in Tamale, northern Ghana (photo credit: Wilhelmina Ofori-Duah/IITA). Partners of the Africa RISING project in northern Ghana recently took part in the Annual Preseason Agribusiness Networking and Exhibition Forum. The event took place on 4 April 2019 in Ghana’s northern region capital […]
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Not just technology dissemination: the multiple dimensions of scaling initiatives of Africa RISING in sustainable intensification
May 28, 2019 Editor 0
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 operates in four regions of Ethiopia. The project, in the first phase, focused more on action research and implemented interventions in four woredas (districts) – […]
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Prize-winning projects promote healthier eating, smarter crop investments
June 28, 2018 Editor 0
The winners of this year’s Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize were a team from Harvard University that’s bringing healthier meal options to low-income communities and an MIT team that’s crowdsourcing and crunching crop-price data for smarter investing. EatWell, a team of students from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and outside experts, won […]
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A regional enterprise to commercialize an integrated technology for waste water treatment and biowaste conversion in eastern Africa
May 27, 2018 Editor 0
Preamble In the wake of urbanization and rapidly expanding agro-process businesses [such as slaughterhouses, tanneries, breweries, and others], environmental pollution, increased greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), and contamination of water sources due to inadequate waste management have become the norm. There is generally little awareness on the environmental and socio-economic consequences of polluting the environment, since […]
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