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Item Strides in sustainable agricultural intensification: Contributions of the Africa RISING Program (2011–2023)(Report, 2024) Odhong, Jonathan; Manners, GuysItem Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation: Sustainable intensification of key farming systems in the Sudan and Guinea Savannas of West Africa: Technical report, 1 April 2022 – 31 September 2022(Report, 2022-09-30) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation: Sustainable intensification of key farming systems in the Sudan and Guinea Savannas of West Africa: Technical report, 1 October 2021 – 31 March 2022(Report, 2023-05-30) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation: Sustainable intensification of key farming systems in the Sudan and Guinea Savannas of West Africa: Technical report, 1 October 2022 – 31 March 2023 [No Cost Extension Period](Report, 2023-05-30) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation: Sustainable intensification of key farming systems in East and Southern Africa: Technical Report, 1 October 2021– 31 March 2022(Report, 2022-05-30) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation: Sustainable intensification of key farming systems in East and Southern Africa: Technical Report, 1 April 2022 – 30 September 2022(Report, 2022-11-30) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Evaluation of radio broadcasts on livestock feed and forage technologies(Report, 2022-11) Mesfin, Hailemariam; Mekonnen, Kindu; Bezabih, Melkamu; Adie, Aberra; Gebreyes, Million; Assefa, Getnet; Seifu, HaimanotThe International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) works for better lives through livestock in developing countries. ILRI is co-hosted by Kenya and Ethiopia and has 14 offices across Asia and Africa. The institute is one of the CGIAR research centres, a global research partnership for a food-secure future. CGIAR science is dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources and ecosystem services. Its research is carried out by 15 CGIAR centres in close collaboration with hundreds of partners, including national and regional research institutes, civil society organizations, academia, development organizations and the private sector. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) is a program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and operates in six African countries (Mali, Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Ethiopia). The program aims to contribute to Feed the Future goals of reducing hunger, poverty and under-nutrition by delivering high quality research outputs that are relevant to these goals. Through action research and development partnerships, Africa RISING is creating opportunities for smallholder farm households to move out of hunger and poverty through sustainably intensified farming systems that improve food, nutrition and income security, particularly for women and children, and conserve or enhance the natural resource base. In Ethiopia, the main aim of the project is to identify and validate solutions to the problems experienced by smallholder crop–livestock farmers. Some problems arise from the difficulties facing farmers in managing natural resources and achieving efficiencies from managing crops, trees, water and livestock together. These efficiencies are often influenced by other factors such as access to inputs and reliability of markets. To address this complexity, Africa RISING takes an integrated approach to strengthening farming systems. It conducts participatory research that identifies technologies and management practices that work for farmers and takes account of contextual issues like markets for inputs and outputs, community and other institutions and policy environments that influence farm households. The project in Ethiopia facilitates wider scaling of validated crop-livestock-natural resource management technologies to reach and benefit more smallholder farmers. Accelerating the Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) is a three-year (2021–2023) project that operates in six African countries, including Ethiopia. The project is supported by a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank and will enhance the research and capacity-building activities of CGIAR and its partners. AICCRA in Ethiopia aims to strengthen the capacity of targeted national partners and stakeholders of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa to access and implement at scale validated climate-smart agriculture technologies, climate information services and climate-informed digital ag-advisories to build the resilience of agri-food systems. The value chains considered for AICCRA’s project in Ethiopia include beans, wheat, small ruminants and livestock feed and forage options. The AICCRA project in Ethiopia has eight research activities, four of which the livestock feed and forage options value chain contributes to. These four are capacity building to support the implementation of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technology packages; identification of climate, gender and social inclusion-smartness of CSA packages; prioritization and awareness increase of best-bet CSA options and approaches for key value chains; and integration of climate-smart options and tailored climate-smart innovation (CSI) advisory systems for specific value chains. The Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems (SIMFS) initiative aims to provide equitable, transformative pathways for improved livelihoods of actors in mixed farming systems through sustainable intensification within target agroecologies and socio-economic settings. Through action research and development partnerships, the initiative will improve smallholder farmers' resilience to weather-induced shocks, provide a more stable income and significant benefits in welfare, and enhance social justice and inclusion for 13 million people by 2030. Activities will be implemented in six focus countries globally, representing diverse mixed farming systems as follows: Ghana (cereal–root crop mixed), Ethiopia (highland mixed), Malawi (maize mixed), Bangladesh (rice mixed), Nepal (highland mixed), and Lao People's Democratic Republic (upland intensive mixed/ highland extensive mixed). Africa RISING, AICCRA projects and SIMFS initiative contracted a consultant to undertake media and communications-related activities. These included media assessment, facilitating media partnership, training radio journalists on livestock feed and forage technologies, and monitoring the radio broadcasts.Item The Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) in the Ethiopian highlands: Scaling scan report(Report, 2021-12-15) Kang'ethe, Edwin; Sartas, Murat; Dror, IddoItem Training need assessment report on livestock feed and forage production and utilization(Report, 2021-11-25) Abdulkadir, Birhan; Gebreyes, Million; Mekonnen, KinduThe capacity development need assessment initiative is part of the feed and forage innovation value chain of the Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research in Africa (AICCRA) project of Ethiopian. AICCRA is a three years (2021-2023) project that operates in six African countries including Ethiopia. The project is supported by a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank and will enhance research and capacity-building activities by CGIAR and its partners. AICCRA in Ethiopia aims to strengthen the capacity of targeted national partners and stakeholders of CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) East Africa to access and implement at scale validated climate-smart agriculture technologies, climate information services, and climate-informed digital ag-advisories to build the resilience of agri-food systems. The value chains considered for AICCRA project in Ethiopia include beans, wheat, small ruminant and livestock feed and forge options. The AICCRA project in Ethiopia has eight research activities. Livestock feed and forage options value chain contributes to four of the eight activities, which include capacity building to support implementation of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technology packages; identification of climate- and gender and social inclusion-smartness of CSA packages; prioritization and awareness increase of best-bet CSA options and approaches for key value chains; and integration of climate-smart options and tailored CSI advisory systems for specific value chains. The current report on capacity need assessment is one of the three deliverables that the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Africa RISING research team promised to produce and submit for AICCRA-Ethiopia project in 2021.Item Africa RISING Annual Progress Report, October 2018 to September 2019(Report, 2020-06-26) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Assessment of economic feasibility and farmers’ perceptions on wetting front detector (WFD) irrigation scheduling tool for dry season vegetable production in the Upper East Region of Ghana(Report, 2020-05-15) Balana, Bedru; Zenebe, A.Item Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Project and Iles de Paix (Islands of Peace) Partnership in Karatu District, Tanzania: Technical report 01 September 2019 – 29 February 2020(Report, 2020-03-15) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Performance evaluation of the Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) program(Report, 2020-04-07) Negra, Christine; Powell, Mark; McCarthy, NancyItem Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation: Sustainable intensification of key farming systems in East and Southern Africa: Technical report, 1 April 2019-30 September 2019(Report, 2019-11-30) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation: Sustainable intensification of key farming systems in the Sudan and Guinea Savannas of West Africa: Technical report, 1 April 2019-30 September 2019(Report, 2019-11-30) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Project and Iles de Paix (Islands of Peace) Partnership in Karatu District, Tanzania: Technical report 19 July 2019–30 September 2019(Report, 2019-10-30) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Enhancing partnership among Africa RISING, NAFAKA and TUBORESHE CHAKULA Programs for fast tracking delivery and scaling of agricultural technologies in Tanzania: Annual Report (1 October 2018–30 September 2019)(Report, 2019-10-28) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Enhancing partnership among Africa RISING, NAFAKA and TUBORESHE CHAKULA Programs for fast tracking delivery and scaling of agricultural technologies in Tanzania: Quarterly Report Quarter (01 June 2019 – 30 September 2019)(Report, 2019-10-28) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Project and Iles de Paix (Islands of Peace) Partnership in Karatu District, Tanzania: Technical report 20 January 2019 – 19 July 2019(Report, 2019-07-19) International Institute of Tropical AgricultureItem Africa RISING web presence report(Report, 2019-04-15) Valentino, S.; Odhong, Jonathan