SIMLESA is a unique partnership-based regional programme. It is sustainably improving the lives of more than 650,000 households in ESA through research-led efforts in CA-based SI, institutional arrangements, and adaptive ...

Smallholder mechanization is part of the recent agricultural transformation agenda that most African countries have embarked on, with the aim of improving agricultural productivity, bringing new farmland into production ...

In-depth case research among 5 successful AIPs illustrate how research and development continuum can be achieved seamlessly. Through a competitive grant scheme (CGS), 13 development organisations applied innovative ...

The sustainable intensification of dryland agricultural systems in high- and low-income countries faces different, though equally challenging, and complex problems requiring new science and the application of more integrative ...

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 ...

SIMLESA case research (see Stake 1995) illustrate AIPs are an effective mechanism for gender mainstreaming and addressing strategic interests. This realisation bolstered SIMLESA’s resolve to establish 58 AIPs. Findings ...