Ecological Economics Volume 120, Pages 164-174;
Authors: Yohannis Tessema, John Asafu-Adjaye, Daniel Rodriguez, Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Bekele Shiferaw
Agricultural Innovation Platforms create strong support systems for climate-smart agriculture in Tanzania.
Policy lessons for sustainable intensification: At a recent policy forum in Mozambique scientists, agricultural leaders and farmers discussed the implications of 8-years of SIMLESA’s results. The forum highlighted several opportunities and lessons learned from SIMLESA on how to improve farmers’ yields while protecting the environment,
link them to markets and to stimulate the scaling of new farming techniques. Listen to scientists and farmers explain their experiences in the SIMLESA project.
Simple, affordable and impactful: Two wheel tractors drive sustainable intensification in
Tanzania
Crop Protection Volume 78, Pages 54-62
Authors: Isaiah Nyagumbo, Muchaneta Munamati, Eleanor F. Mutsamba, Christian Thierfelder, Angelo Cumbane, Domingos Dias
This manual in Swahili contains instructions for farmers to implement conservation agriculture in Tanzania.
Learn how the CASI approach to scaling is key to innovation adoption in Tanzania.
prepared by Rahel Assefa and Frédéric Baudron, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)
co-authors/ John Blackwell, David Kahan, Moti Jaleta, Saidi Mkomwa, Bisrat
contributors/ collaborators Getnet, Pascal Kaumbutho, John Sariah, Raymond Nazare, Djalalie Itana, Ephrem Tadesse