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Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Eastern and Southern Africa: evidence, lessons and imperatives for scaling up and out.
(CIMMYT; ACIAR, 2016)
Both field experiments and household analysis show that conservation agriculture (CA) can have a strong value proposition for farmers in terms of cost reduction, yield enhancement and risk mitigation. CA can contribute to ...
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Are structured value chains possible or necessary? some highlights from Ethiopian and Kenyan maize and legume markets
(CIMMYT; EIAR; KALRO; ACIAR, 2016)
A core pillar of sustainable agricultural intensification is the farm level financial viability of such intensification. This will (almost surely) be mediated by well-functioning agricultural markets and value chains. This ...
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Combating drought in southern Africa: from relief to resilience
(CIMMYT, [2016?])
A different, more sustainable response strategy is needed to increase the resilience of farming systems to acute climate change-induced drought and heat stress in sub-Saharan Africa. Governments need a comprehensive action ...
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CIMMYT Southern Africa: enhancing income, food and nutritional security through science and partnerships since 1985
(CIMMYT, [2016?])
“Maize is life” to many of southern Africa’s most vulnerable. While in the last 50 years the production of cereal crops in the developing world has tripled, with only a 30% increase in cultivated land area, the impact of ...
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CIMMYT in Southern Africa: Improving food and nutritional security through science and partnerships
(CIMMYT, [2016?])
CIMMYT-SARO is focused on the development and deployment of climateresilient technologies to sustainably increase productivity and profitability, reduce yield variability and lower the impact on the environment. As part ...
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Achieving sustainable agricultural intensification in Eastern and Southern Africa: what is needed?
(ACIAR; SIMLESA; CIMMYT, [2017?])
The twin goals of achieving food and nutrition security in Eastern and Southern Africa remains urgent. These goals are particularly challenging now because they must be achieved at a time of unprecedented global changes ...