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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 manual in Swahili contains instructions for farmers to implement conservation agriculture in Tanzania.

Presentation

Steering committee provides strategic and technical advice and recommendations to enhance the relevance and impact of the SIMLESA.

Policy brief

In this series of 8 briefs , find information on policy action points to support sustainable intensification in eastern and southern Africa. Topics covered include scaling conservation agriculture practices, Tracing the process from research phase to the farm and actions for strengthening seed value chains, among other topic…

Working paper

A paper on capitalizing on the role of livestock for a sustainable intensification of the mixed crop-livestock in the SIMLESA sites.

Journal Article

Frédéric Baudron & Brian Sims & Scott Justice & David G. Kahan & Richard Rose & Saidi Mkomwa & Pascal Kaumbutho & John Sariah & Raymond Nazare & Girma Moges & Bruno Gérard

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

Prepared by Frédéric Baudron & Rahel Assefa, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)
co-authors/contributors/ collaborators
Bisrat Getnet, Raymond Nazare, Ephrem Tadesse, Dorcas Matangi, Michael Misiko, Rabé Yahaya

Journal Article

International Food and Agr Business. Volume 19 
Authors: Tesfaye, K., Sonder, K., Cairns, J., Magorokosho, C., Tarekegn, A., Kassie, G.T., … & Erenstein, O.

Policy brief

Learn how information campaigns drive adoption even under difficult market conditions in Mozambique (written in Portuguese).

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