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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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Media Report

-ALL AFRICA
In 2017, climate and man-made disasters sent shockwaves across the world. For the first time in a decade, world hunger has also risen once more to affect an estimated 815 million people. Regions facing conflict in combination with the impact of droughts and floods fared the worst in parts of Africa and Asia

Policy brief

An evaluation of key agricultural output markets in Ethiopia and Kenya to determine the neccesity of value chains.

Video

This four-minute overview video describes in brief, the activities of the SIMLESA project. Its approach to smallholder farming is transforming maize-legume crop production in Eastern and Southern Africa. The project is helping smallholder, maize-based farmers double or quadruple their yields and income through good agricultural practices.

Policy brief

CASI technologies have helped in developing resilience through paradigm shifts in smallholder farming systems (written in Portuguese).

Working paper

An analysis of socio-economic characteristics of households that affect husbands’ and wives’ decision-making intensity on the use of income derived from crop and livestock sale.

Journal Article

African International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology 
Authors: Alfred Micheni, David Mburu, Fred Kanampiu, Njue Mugai, Francis Kihanda

Journal Article

African Journal of Agricultural Research;Vol. 8; iss. 1; pp. 1 – 19 
Authors: Ramaekers, Lara Micheni, A Mbogo, P Vanderleyden, Jos Maertens, Miet

Journal Article

Agricultural Systems Volume 151, Pages 217-224 
Authors: C. Rigolota, P. de Voil, S. Douxchamps D. Prestwidge, M. Van Wijk, P.K. Thornton, D. Rodriguez, B. Henderson, D. Medina, M. Herrero.

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