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ILRI News on crop-livestock

09 May 2019

Not just technology dissemination: the multiple dimensions of scaling initiatives of Africa RISING in sustainable intensification

Written by Million Gebreyes, Kindu Mekonnen, Peter Thorne, Abera Adie A word cloud of Africa RISING partners in Ethiopia (photo credit: authors). The Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands operates in four regions of Ethiopia. The project, in the first phase, focused more on action...

Africa RISING feed

30 Apr 2019

Jonathan Odhong

Anecdotes of sustainable intensification (video)

Supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of the US government’s Feed the Future initiative, the Africa RISING project is working to create opportunities for smallholder farm households to move out of hunger and poverty through sustainable intensified...

Africa RISING feed

23 Apr 2019

Jonathan Odhong

Next generation RISING (video)

For 21-year old Olais Lukumay, agriculture is a well-paying and fulltime job. Born in Bermi Village, Babati District in northern Tanzania; Lukumay’s interest to carve out a successful farming enterprise has seen him opt to engage in farming despite being a holder of a diploma in accounting. In this...

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Publications on crop-livestock

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Sustainable Rangeland Management project Tanzania

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Genotyping by sequencing provides new insights into the diversity of Napier grass (Cenchrus purpureus) and reveals variation in genome-wide LD patterns between collections

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A large-scale metabolomics study to harness chemical diversity and explore biochemical mechanisms in ryegrass

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Modelling biological N fixation and grass-legume dynamics with process-based biogeochemical models of varying complexity

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Inoculation and phosphorus fertilizer improve food-feed traits of grain legumes in mixed crop-livestock systems of Ethiopia

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Prioritizing options for multi-objective agricultural development through the Positive Deviance approach

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ILRI Projects on crop-livestock

Dec 2014Jan 2019

Surveillance and early-warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases in Vietnam and Laos (Pestforecast)

A warmer, wetter world is likely to be sicker. The Mekong is a hotspot for human, animal and plant disease, and some of the most important are highly sensitive to climate and climate changes. These diseases impose enormous burdens on human health and the agricultural sector and hinder broader...

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Enhanced community resilience to drought through innovative market based systems approaches

Project goal The overall goal of the project is to improve pastoral livelihoods through sustainable market systems. The project aims to promote pastoral livelihoods diversification, facilitate robust markets for livestock and livestock products and enhance consolidation of knowledge base to enhance...

Using system analysis and modeling tools to develop improved feeding strategies for small-scale crop-livestock farmers in Southeast Asia

Project Objectives/Goals: The project will aim at enhancing farm feed resources by optimizing the contribution of sweet potato, legumes and other feed sources to year-round feed availability, livestock productivity and household income. Outputs: 1.Novel pig feeding systems based on sweet potato, forage legumes and other feed sources toincrease feed availability, livestock productivity and household income, under the environmental and economic constraints in the project area.

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