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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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In pictures: the 2019 Africa RISING Tanzania monitoring visit
August 30, 2019 Editor 0
The Africa RISING East and Southern Africa (ESA) project management team led by the project manager, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon; the ESA project chief scientist, Mateete Bekunda and implementing partners visited different project sites in Tanzania on 18–31 March. The three-day visit reviewed the ongoing implementation of project activities in Babati, Kiteto, Kongwa, Mbozi and Mbeya districts. […]
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Active Internationalization of Software Enterprises: Scale Development and Validation
August 30, 2019 Editor 0
A 34-item scale was developed to measure the attributes that contribute to success in the active internationalization processes of small and medium enterprises of software. Data from 103 companies was analysed. The scale was developed and available online in 4 languages. Based on established scale development procedures, such as exploratory and confirmatory factorial analysis, a […]
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The Manager’s Guide to Leveraging Disruption
August 30, 2019 Editor 0
Clayton M. Christensen’s seminal book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, helped ignite the idea of innovative disruption. His Harvard Business School colleagues have been adding to innovation research ever since. Go to Source
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