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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

This is a step-by-step guide to conservation farming using permanent Planting Basins.

Farmer and extension manual

This is a manual for policy makers to guide in the scaling out of CASI technologies in Mozambique.

Working paper

This article examines the participation and involvement of men, women and children, from the production to the selling and processing of maize.

Video

Researchers from CIMMYT’s Sustainable Intensification of Maize and Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) meet recently at the Second African Congress on Conservation Agriculture in Johannesburg to discuss conservation agriculture systems as the sustainable basis for regional food security. This video provides background on the project which is now in its ninth year.

Working paper

Joseph Mutua and Pascal Kaumbutho

Media Report

-ADDIS STANDARD
Learn how has trained model farmers to apply the sustainable conservtion agriculture practices.

Journal Article

-Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 113 (2) pg 458-463
Authors: Romain Frelat, Santiago Lopez-Ridaura, Ken E. Giller, Mario Herrero, Sabine Douxchamps, Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt, Olaf Erenstein, Ben Henderson, Menale Kassie, Birthe K. Paul, Cyrille Rigolot, Randall S. Ritzema, Daniel Rodriguez, Piet J. A. van Asten, and Mark T. van Wijk

Policy brief

Research done under SIMLESA in dryland agricultural systems in high- and low-income countries has had great benefits for Australian farmers.

Media Report

-CIMMYT
SIMLESA project leader, Paswel Marenya reflects on 8 years of project learning.

social media