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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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Video

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.

Policy brief

Agricultural Mechanization
Forum of Ethiopia
Technical Brief

Presentation

CA-based technologies have had the greatest impact on yield regardless of climate.

Farmer and extension manual

GUIDELINES FOR A SUB-SECTOR ANALYSIS OF THE 2WT MECHANIZATION SUB-SECTOR

Policy brief

Brief about the scaling out efforts of CASI technologies from just a few to many subsistence farmers in Malawi.

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.

Farmer and extension manual

This is a manual guide for soil testing in remote areas, with specific tailoring to the Eastern and Southern Africa.

Working paper

This report describes the concepts of scaling employed in SIMLESA (and which can be replicated with modifications) to similar projects and programs in the region.

Infographic/Factsheet

A guide to optimal intercropping patterns for maize and beans in Uganda.

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