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  • The listening post: How Africa RISING technologies are improving farmers’ lives in Zambia and Malawi

    May 15, 2017 Editor 0

    Farmers voices from Malawi and Zambia about how different Africa RISING technologies have touched their lives. This feedback and earnest reflections from the grassroots were captured during the recent monitoring visit by the leadership team of the IITA-led Africa RISING project in east and southern Africa. Click on the images and links below to read […]

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  • Getting technologies out to farmers using innovative approaches: the Africa RISING – SIMLEZA project

    January 29, 2016 Editor 0

    In Zambia, The SIMLEZA-Africa RISING Research and Development project tested a range of improved technologies such as conservation agriculture (CA), soybean agronomy, improved and stress-tolerant germplasm, maize-legume systems, inoculum and improved utilization of legume products with farmers. Farmer Agness Phiri has had her first experience with use of herbicides for weed control. She highlighted great […]

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  • On the trail of adoption data: Africa RISING embarks on study to evaluate use of improved technologies in northern Ghana

    September 4, 2015 Editor 0

    Oscar Dong, a local farmers group leader in #northern Ghana. Farming trials were established on his land and he is anticipating excellent yields from improved crop varieties (photo credit: Africa RISING/ Charlie Pye-Smith). In preparation for a study to monitor adoption of Africa RISING #technologies in northern Ghana, the West Africa project team recently trained (from 29 July […]

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  • Open Data in Developing Countries -Monitoring and Evaluation study on Kenyan OD technologies

    May 24, 2013 Editor 0

    By Elly Okutoyi iHub Research   For the past six weeks, iHub Research has been conducting an ongoing Monitoring and Evaluation study on the impact of open data applications and technologies in promoting access to information . The focus for this study include technologies born out of the Code4Kenya (http://www.code4kenya.org/) pre-incubator initiative as well as those […] […]

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  • A Growing Lifeline: Mobile Technologies in Agricultural Development

    November 27, 2012 Editor 0

    Smallholder farmers in the developing world face considerable challenges that keep many of them locked in poverty.  These challenges stem from a lack of access to market information, technical knowledge, inputs, financing and accessible markets where they can sell their products. In a recent survey of 4,000 farmers in Tanzania, more than three-quarters said access […]

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  • ‘Energy democracy’ becomes more real

    October 29, 2012 Editor 0

    Will new technologies democratize energy much the way the Internet did information? Industry movement seems to point in that direction with the rise of the smart grid, time-of-day pricing, distributed solar, and the electric vehicle. Together these technologies offer a vision of a less centralized energy system, one where communities and households ‘vote in’ or […]

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