Tags: crop-livestock

ILRI News on crop-livestock

23 Jul 2019

In pictures: the 2019 Africa RISING Tanzania monitoring visit

The Africa RISING East and Southern Africa (ESA) project management team led by the project manager, Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon; the ESA project chief scientist, Mateete Bekunda and implementing partners visited different project sites in Tanzania on 18–31 March. The three-day visit reviewed the...

ILRI clippings

12 Jul 2019

Paul Karaimu

Inoculating legume plants with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria improves yields in Ethiopia and could save USD28 million annually in fertilizer costs

A legume farming demonstration plot by the N2Africa project in Pawe, Benshangul Gumuz, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). A five-year project that promoted nitrogen fixation through the use of rhizobia bacteria in grain legumes in Ethiopia has helped participating smallholder farmers...

Africa RISING feed

25 Jun 2019

Africa RISING communications

Adopting good agricultural practises was the game changer I needed!

Method Magoda and his family outside their house at Utengule village in Kilolo District, Tanzania (photo credit: Frednand Japhet/IITA). The scene is Kilolo District in Tanzania’s Iringa region. Utengule is one of the 37 villages where the Africa RISING–NAFAKA project is demonstrating various...

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Publications on crop-livestock

Presentation

Published2019

Feeds and forage research and development under SIMLESA project: Achievements and lessons

Poster

Published2019

Opportunities from mobile NIRS

Brief

Published2019

Sustainable Rangeland Management project Tanzania

Journal Article

Published2019

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

Journal Article

Published2019

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

Journal Article

Published2019

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

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ILRI Projects on crop-livestock

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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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Cereal System Initiative South Asia (CSISA)

The Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) was established in 2009 to promote durable change at scale in South Asia’s cereal-based cropping systems. CSISA supports regional and national efforts to improve cereal production growth in South Asia’s Indo-Gangetic Plains, home to the region’s...

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