This video presents the outcomes of the SIMLESA project, featuring interviews with women and men farmers and scientists from four of the seven SIMLESA partner countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Prepared by: Frédéric Baudron and Elias Berta, International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)
Co-authors/ contributors/ collaborators: Girma Moges, Pascal Kaumbutho,
Wilfried Mariki, Raymond Nazare, Moti Jaleta, Michael Misiko, John Blackwell, Saidi Mkomwa
Agricultural Systems Volume 121, Pages 96-105
Authors: Moti Jaleta, Menale Kassie, Bekele Shiferaw
Jelle Van Loon, Lennart Woltering , Timothy J. Krupnik , Frédéric Baudron , and Bram Govaerts
M. Misiko, M. Tsegaye, B. Teshome, B. Getnet, G. Moges, F. Baudron, D. Tirfessa, E. Berta
(R. A. Jat and J. Graziano de Silva eds.). pp. 263-292. CABI: ISBN-13: 9781780642598. Cambridge.
Authors: Thierfelder C.; Ngwira A. M. ; Govaerts B.; Nyagumbo I.; and Baudron F.
-ACIAR FOOD SECURITY AND POVERTY REDUCTION MAGAZINES
Climate variability significantly affects cropping productivity around the world, but perhaps nowhere more so than in eastern and southern African countries…
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.
This poster (written in both English and Chewa) highlights the importance of mulching in improving soil yield.
-CIMMYT.ORG
By mid-2017, SIMLESA had helped over 235,000 farming households adopt more sustainable practices to cope with the effects of climate change and declining soil fertility. “The work done by SIMLESA has yielded increasing farm-level food security…
