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By Michael Kinyua and Job Kihara The Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) is a project supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to create opportunities for smallholder farm households to provide pathways out of hunger and poverty through sustainably intensified farming systems. Farmers in Babati District of Northern Tanzania are among

By: Anne Rietveld ‘Achieving impact’ is what motivates many researchers working in and with the CGIAR. And so, we develop innovations that have the potential to contribute to development outcomes such as food security or climate adaptation. Once successfully tested and perhaps adopted on a small scale, such innovations need to go ‘to scale’ to achieve the desired impact(s). Scaling

By Alex Reep, UC Berkeley What food flows in the Galería El Porvenir Market reveal about Cali & Colombia. On a typical day in a traditional Colombian food market, the “Galería,” a shopper can go from having a chat with a campesino (farmer) about the land they steward to enjoying a filling meal based on a family recipe. They can

Mr. Sugebo Forsido, and Mr. Tamire Wangore are both successful wheat farmers at Haysie Kebele in Lemo district Ethiopia.  They happily explain the dynamics they both go through. Compared to the neighboring farmers, the two have adopted use of fertilize, and work with development agents through various training sessions. Mr. Tamire Wangore, expects a yield increase of close to 50%

Scientists in Colombia show that well managed pasture can store more soil carbon while reducing nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions to offset the climate impact of livestock. An improved variety of grass combined with a rotational grazing system can boost levels of soil carbon on tropical savannas by 15 per cent compared to degraded pasture, a new study performed by

The virtual panel “Co-creating responsible innovation ecosystems that enable systemic change of food systems” during the side events of the 2022 FAO Science & Innovations engaged panelists and participants to generate new insights and connect for strengthening and building between complementary initiatives. On Wednesday October 12th, the 2022 FAO Science & Innovation Forum side event “Co-creating responsible innovation ecosystems that enable systemic change

A study in sweet potato value chain in Kenya revealed key strategies to reduce postharvest losses to improve food and nutrition security. How many times have you thought about the processes the food you buy or that is on your plate has gone through to arrive healthy, nutritious and good looking? Have you ever imagined that what is waste, damage

Jacob van Etten, Principal Scientist and Director for Digital Inclusion, explains that the idea for tricot (an abbreviation for triadic comparison of technologies), came from a frustration that he felt years ago, when participating in formalized experimental plots designed to test crop varieties that are conventionally bred for selected traits. “In the 1990s, some felt the role of the scientists