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Learn how SIMLESA’s work is among this contributing to gender sensitive agricultural research for development.
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.
Agricultural Systems Volume 121, Pages 96-105
Authors: Moti Jaleta, Menale Kassie, Bekele Shiferaw
World Development Volume 56, Pages 153-171
Authors: Menale Kassie, Simon Wagura Ndiritu, Jesper Stage
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.
Read about the technology packages implemented by SIMLESA in Malawi to aid the scaling out of CASI.
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
Rwanda’s Crop Intensification Program (CIP) recommends the integration of CA-based technologies and agroforestry in efforts to enhance crop productivity in the country.
