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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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Farmer and extension manual

Manual guide into how Conservation Agriculture (CA) can help mitigate the reduction in soil quality.

Farmer and extension manual

See the profiles of two champion farmers, Peter Joctor and Dailess Kasawala, who through SIMLESA have adopted CASI technologies and the impact of the adoption in their lives…

Working paper

Michael Misiko and Alice Woodhead
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Kenya
The University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Policy brief

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

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.

Journal Article

Field Crops Research Volume 144, Pages 245-255
Authors: Y.S. Chauhan, K.F. Solomon, D. Rodriguez

Policy brief

Learn about the importance of adaptive research on multifunctional mechanization and business development (Portuguese version).

Journal Article

International Livestock Research Institute 
Authors: Iddo Dror, Jean-Joseph Cadilhon, Marc Schut, Michael Misiko and Shreya Maheshwars

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