Agricultural Mechanization
Forum of Ethiopia
Technical Brief
Prepared by: Frédéric Baudron, David Kahan, and Elias Berta, International
Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)
Co-authors/ contributors/ collaborator: Girma Moges, Pascal Kaumbutho, John Sariah, Raymond Nazare, Moti Jaleta, John Blackwell, Saidi Mkomwa
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.
Climate Change Adaptation in Africa pp 185-203.
Authors: Kindie Tesfaye, Menale Kassie, Jill E. Cairns, Misiko Michael, Clare Stirling, Tsedeke Abate, B. M. Prasanna, Mulugetta Mekuria, Habtamu Hailu, Dil Bahadur Rahut, Olaf Erenstein, Bruno Gerard
Rwanda’s Crop Intensification Program (CIP) recommends the integration of CA-based technologies and agroforestry in efforts to enhance crop productivity in the country.
-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…
Crop Protection Volume 78, Pages 54-62
Authors: Isaiah Nyagumbo, Muchaneta Munamati, Eleanor F. Mutsamba, Christian Thierfelder, Angelo Cumbane, Domingos Dias
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.
