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SIMLESA project leader, Paswel Marenya reflects on 8 years of project learning.
A paper on capitalizing on the role of livestock for a sustainable intensification of the mixed crop-livestock in the SIMLESA sites.
A study on how the practice of CA under SIMLESA promotes aggregation of soil particles which improves overall soil structure.
SIMLESA Conference
Authors: Erin Lynn Wilkus, Caspar Will Roxburgh, Daniel Rodriguez
This video on SIMLESA project highlights the importance of gender equity and social inclusion to achieving project impacts and outcomes, helping to drive transformative change towards securing a food secure future for Africa. Case studies and interviews with women and men farmers – including young people – detail how SIMLESA’s approach has re-shaped their maize-based farming lives.
Brief on the advantages of conservation agriculture technology adoption for Kenyan farmers.
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment Volume 197, Pages 137-146
Authors: Jessica Bellarby, Clare Stirling, Sylvia HelgaVetter, Menale Kassie, Fred Kanampiu, Kai Sonder, Pete Smith, Jon Hillier
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
Brief about the scaling out efforts of CASI technologies from just a few to many subsistence farmers in Malawi.
2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 211838, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
Authors: Kassie, Menale; Teklewolde, Hailemariam; Erenstein, Olaf; Jaleta, Moti; Marenya, Paswel; Mekurai, Mulugetta