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Sustainable intensification: Is a systems perspective essential for integrated crop-livestock systems?
January 16, 2020 Editor 0
This blog highlights the key messages of a presentation by the Africa RISING Ethiopian highlands project manager, Peter Thorne (International Livestock Research Institute) and Sieg Snapp (Michigan State University) on 12 November 2019 at the 2019 ASA-CSSA-SSSA International Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Approximately 4,000 scientists, professionals, educators, and students attended the meeting whose theme […]
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Disseminating maize agronomy technologies using interactive voice response in Malawi–the opportunities and pitfalls
January 12, 2020 Editor 0
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 International Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Approximately 4,000 scientists, professionals, educators and students attended the meeting whose theme was ‘Embracing the digital environment’. Key messages Interactive […]
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Africa RISING field days showcase enhancements in crop and forage yields in the Ethiopian highlands
December 23, 2019 Editor 0
In the last quarter of each year, an Africa RISING project being conducted in the highlands of Ethiopia, holds series of field days there. This project is conducting research-for-development activities to narrow gaps in farmer yields of crops and livestock feeds. These field days, which included ‘experience sharing programs’, were held in four of Ethiopia’s […]
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Ethiopia training develops partnerships and capacity for feed and forage farming
December 9, 2019 Editor 0
The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian Highlands recently held a series of training sessions for farmers and project partners from the extension and the national research systems on forage production, feed management, and utilization. More than 70 participants from various project locations in Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and the SNNP regions took part in the […]
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Best of both worlds: Intercropping Napier grass with legumes boosts food and livestock productivity in Ghana
December 2, 2019 Editor 0
Happy women! Ongoing Napier grass and pigeon pea trials/demos in the Duko Community of northern Ghana is enabling farmers to get both food for their families and feed for their livestock (photo credit: Wilhelmina Ofori-Duah/IITA). Livestock contribute substantially to smallholder farmers’ livelihoods and the sustenance of households in northern Ghana. For many families, farm animals […]
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Pulses, cobs and a healthy soil prove the success of a rural innovator
October 20, 2019 Editor 0
Mary Twaya with pigeon peas and maize harvested from her farm in southern Malawi (photo credit: Shiela Chikulo/CIMMYT). Mary Twaya is an exemplary farmer in Lemu, a rural drought-prone community in southern Malawi, near Lake Malombe. On her one-hectare farm she grows cotton, maize, and legumes like groundnut and cowpea, which she just picked from […]
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