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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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Journal Article

Technological Forecasting and Social Change Volume 103, Pages 240-248 
Authors: Munyaradzi Mutenje, Henry Kankwamba, Julius Mangisonib, Menale Kassie

Media Report

Title:Powering smallholder agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa: how 2-wheel tractors increase farm power among smallholders

Author:Bastemeijer, E.Year:2015

Video

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.

Policy brief

Conservation farming practices have built climate-resilient and productive farming systems in Malawi.

Journal Article

Jelle Van Loon, Lennart Woltering , Timothy J. Krupnik , Frédéric Baudron , and Bram Govaerts

Journal Article

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 113–131, 
Authors: Jonas Kathage, Menale Kassie, Bekele Shiferaw, Matin Qaim

Farmer and extension manual

Guide into inter-cropping under CA in the high potential sub-humid western agro-ecology of Ethiopia.

Farmer and extension manual

This is a step-by-step guide to conservation farming by use of rip-lines.

Policy brief

In this series of 8 briefs , find information on policy action points to support sustainable intensification in eastern and southern Africa. Topics covered include scaling conservation agriculture practices, Tracing the process from research phase to the farm and actions for strengthening seed value chains, among other topic…

Working paper

A study on how the practice of CA under SIMLESA promotes aggregation of soil particles which improves overall soil structure.

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