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RESOURCES FROM SIMLESA

The section below contains links to 12 different categories of resources from SIMLESA including publications, multi-media, datasheets, media reports and factsheets among others…

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Farmer and extension manual

This is a manual guide for soil testing in remote areas, with specific tailoring to the Eastern and Southern Africa.

Journal Article

PNAS 113 (2) 458-463;

Authors: Romain Frelat, Santiago Lopez-Ridaura, Ken E. Giller, Mario Herrero, Sabine Douxchamps, Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Olaf Erenstein, Ben Henderson, Menale Kassie, Birthe K. Paul, Cyrille Rigolot, Randall S. Ritzema, Daniel Rodriguez, Piet J. A. van Asten, and Mark T. van Wijk

Policy brief

Minimum Tillage Package(MTP) helps save labour requirements for smallholder farmers in Ethiopia.

Presentation

Presentation on SIMLESA’s summary of achievements by the program’s Objectives.

Video

This 15-minute video provides insights into the SIMLESA multi-partner initiative being implemented in five African countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania

Working paper

Michael Misiko, Ephrem Tadesse, Alice Woodhead, Frédéric Baudron.
1 International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Kenya
2 International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Ethiopia
3 The University of Southern Queensland, Australia
4 International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Zimbabwe

Policy brief

Learn how collective institutions strengthen the social capital of communities.

Working paper

This report describes the concepts of scaling employed in SIMLESA (and which can be replicated with modifications) to similar projects and programs in the region.

Journal Article

Moti Jaleta, Frédéric Baudron, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko and Olaf Erenstein

social media