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Key takeaways and call to action on the 6th world food safety day commemoration
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Unlocking the cassava treasure: a path to elevate export revenues in Tanzania
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2024)Over the past 15 years, Tanzania has implemented the Agricultural Marketing Policy (2008), which provides legal and regulatory guidance to the government and private sector actors in enhancing the quality standards and competitive prices of agricultural commodities. Nevertheless, there exists a gap in understanding how this policy guideline is implemented by market actors at the local level. These knowledge gaps underscore the necessity for a rapid market survey carried out in July 2023, with ... -
West Africa rice agronomy platform scaling strategy
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2023) -
Communique from the Food Convergence Innovation (FCI) stakeholder convention
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Performances des techniques d'association mais-pois d'angole efficientes contre la Chenille Legionnaire Automne
(Entomological Society of the Republic of Benin, 2022-11)Au Bénin, la chenille légionnaire d’Automne (CLA), Spodoptera frugiperda est la principale contrainte à la production de maïs car ils peuvent entraîner une perte totale de rendement. L’association Maïs (M) /Pois d’Angole (PA) permettrait d’optimiser le service écosystémique et la gestion de ce ravageur. La présente recherche vise à évaluer les performances de cette association sur la réduction de l’infestation, et sur les dégâts de S. frugiperda. Ainsi, dans les trois catégories d’association (S0 ... -
Biological observations of Meromacroides meromacriformis (Bezzi, 1915) (Diptera: Syrphidae) in South Africa
(2022-09)Meromacroides meromacriformis (Bezzi, 1915) is an enigmatic hoverfly, first collected in South Africa in the 1850s, but not again until 2020. A further collection in 2022 was also made in the country. While widespread in Africa, the species is rarely encountered and information about its biology is scarce. The recent collections in South Africa were associated with colonies of Schedorhinotermes lamanianus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) found in rot-holes within the trunk of a standing living trees ... -
Blazing the trail: people first
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2020) -
Development initiative for northern Uganda: building resilience to enhance food and nutrition security, income and health in northern Uganda
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2021) -
Redefining agricultural education through vocational training: Start Them Early Program in Kenya
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2022-04) -
Cocoa farmer's segmentation in Ghana
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The farmer segmentation tool: understanding the diversity of coffee farmers
(2019)The farmer segmentation approach was developed by the IITA research team in collaboration with partners. The approach combines quantitative and qualitative aspects to understanding the diversity of farmers within a community. On-farm resources are identified as well as a farmers’ level of entrepreneurship and willingness to invest in their priority crop. The farmer segmentation process identifies differences in farmers’ ability to invest in Good Agricultural Practices (GAPS) and Climate Smart ... -
The stepwise smartphone application: co-creation of innovative agricultural extension support tools
(2019)To support the roll-out of the Stepwise approach a Smartphone application was developed as a tool for use by impact partner extension workers. IITA partnered with Mango Tree, an educational, communication and design company based in Uganda (https://mangotreeuganda.org/) combining research and technical knowledge with creative expertise to develop an appealing and innovative application. IITA impact partners, Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung and Olam contributed insight on information delivery and field-based ... -
Middlemen: threat or opportunity for the Ugandan coffee value chain?
(International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 2019) -
Cracking patterns in big data saves Colombian rice farmers’ huge losses
(2016-02-29)In 2014, 170 Colombian rice farmers avoided massive losses by taking the advice of their producers’ federation, FEDEARROZ, not to plant in the first of the two annual growing seasons. The farmers who took the advice avoided economic losses estimated at USD 3.6 million. FEDEARROZ acted on a forecast by a team of young CCAFS scientists based at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). The scientists had mined 10 years of weather and crop data to understand how climatic variation ... -
Integrated Soil Fertility Management: Contributions of framework and practices to climate-smart agriculture
(2015-11-26)Updated on 13/09/2016. Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) is a set of practices related to cropping, fertilizers, organic resources and other amendments on smallholder farms to increase production and input use efficiency. ISFM delivers productivity gains, increased resilience, and mitigation benefits. ISFM benefits food security and incomes enhances yield stability in rainfed systems, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions from soils and fertilizers making it of value to climate-smart ... -
Coffee-Banana Intercropping: Implementation guidance for policymakers and investors
(2015-11-26)Coffee-Banana Intercropping (VBI) addresses all 3 pillars of CSA in a multifaceted way. CBI in both Arabica nad Robusta generates 50% more revenue then either coffee or banana monocrop. Farmers' risk is reduced by practising CBI, making them more resilient to climate change impacts. Transformational changes are needed in the attitude towards CBI, to support scaling up of the practice. -
Soybean: A versatile grain legume for smallholder farmers in Malawi
(International Livestock Research Institute, 2015-09-01) -
Intensifying maize production in integrated crop-livestock farming systems in northern Ghana
(International Livestock Research Institute, 2015-06-30)
