Global Food Discussion Papers 131756
Authors: Kathage, Jonas & Qaim, Matin & Kassie, Menale & Shiferaw, Bekele A.
Agricultural Innovation Platforms create strong support systems for climate-smart agriculture in Tanzania.
Learn how CASI practices had good impacts on soil moisture, reduced erosion and increased yields in Ethiopian farms.
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.
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This report written in Swahili, explains the important of writing agricultural documents in local languages.
TUMUHUFIDZE ZEBEDAYO MVENA
This ACIAR brief highlights the need to support integrated approaches to technology development, extension and adoption.
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.
Benesta Titus, John Sariah, and Moti Jaleta