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NIH Study Record: Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project

NIH’s Study record for the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP)

Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Date: 8/1/2019

Resource Type: Website

East & Southern Africa

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Soil Health Tool Kit Manual

The soil health tool kit assembles simplified methods to assess soil health in the context of projects and networks working with smallholder farmers. The tool kit website describes the protocols for soil pH, permanganate-oxidizable soil carbon (POXC or active carbon), particulate organic matter (POM), soil aggregate stability, and soil available phosphorus. In the downloadable manual […]

Source: https://smallholder-sha.org/

Date: 8/1/2019

Resource Type: Program resource

East & Southern Africa

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Incidence and Severity of Common Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) Pests in Agroecological Zones and Farming Systems of Western Kenya

Source: https://doi.org/10.1080/00128325.2019.1599151

Date: 7/18/2019

Resource Type: Organizational publication or report

East & Southern Africa

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P-efficient Common Bean Lines

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) lines developed through collaboration between the Roots Lab and the Mozambique Institute of Agricultural Research can absorb more phosphorus in low phosphorus soils.

Source: Johnathan Lynch, Roots Lab

Date: 7/3/2019

Resource Type: Video

East & Southern Africa

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Research Highlight: Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project

Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Science highlights the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project

Source: Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Science

Date: 6/13/2019

Resource Type: Website

East & Southern Africa

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Climate Resilient Beans for Mozambique

In Mozambique, new improved varieties of beans are doubling or even tripling crop yields. Roots Lab video highlights the action.

Source: Johnathan Lynch, Roots Lab

Date: 5/16/2019

Resource Type: Video

East & Southern Africa

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New Frontiers in Legume Research

A collection of case studies based on 10 years of research in Malawi, produced by the McKnight Collaborative Crop Research Program’s Southern Africa community of practice.

Source: CCRP

Date: 5/15/2019

Resource Type: Case study

East & Southern Africa

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Phosphorus Efficient Bean Project: Successes, Lessons, and Good Practices in Agroecological Intensification

Source: CCRP

Date: 5/15/2019

Resource Type: Project summary

East & Southern Africa

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Video Set: Managing aflatoxins in groundnuts during drying and storage

The video, Managing aflatoxins in groundnuts during drying and storage, is now available from AccessAgriculture .

Source: AccessAgriculture

Date: 5/15/2019

Resource Type: Video

East & Southern Africa

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From Breeding to Nutrition: Orange-fleshed sweet potatoes

From Breeding to Nutrition: Orange-fleshed sweetpotatoes in farming and food systems of Uganda, Kenya and Burkina Faso. A case study of projects, 1994-2014.

Source: Anja Christinck, Marthe Diarra Doka, Gottfried Horneber, Grace Kagoro Rugunda, Grégoire Palé, and Cory William Whitney

Date: 5/15/2019

Resource Type: Case study

East & Southern Africa, West Africa

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CCRP Thematic Intervention Areas

The CCRP Theory of Change (ToC) describes the broad systems change to which the CCRP contributes. The thematic intervention areas describe the more specific topics the CCRP invests in, as well as shorter-term outcome areas. The thematic areas are present throughout CCRP theoretical frameworks including regional ToCs, thematic ToCs, and project ToCs and are also […]

Source: CCRP

Date: 5/15/2019

Resource Type: Framework

Andes, East & Southern Africa, West Africa

Improving the Living Conditions of Local Communities Through Participatory Innovation Development

Forging a partnership between farmers, agricultural advisers and researchers in order to promote farmer-led innovation in agro-ecological intensification

Source: Assétou KANOUTE, Bourama DIAKITE, Souleymane DIARRA, Samba TRAORE, Dommo TIMBELY and N’Famara SOUMARE

Date: 2/1/2019

Resource Type: Program resource

East & Southern Africa

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Supporting Local Innovation by Means of an Alternative Finance Mechanism

The support fund strengthens the resilience of farmers with meager resources in the Ségou and Mopti regions of Mali

Source: Assétou KANOUTE, Bourama DIAKITE, Souleymane DIARRA, Samba TRAORE, Dommo TIMBELY and M’Famara SOUMARE

Date: 2/1/2019

Resource Type: Case study

East & Southern Africa

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Stimulating Mutual Learning Through Agro-Ecological Experiments

Networking experience based on joint experiments and the support funds for local innovations in the regions of Ségou and Mopti

Source: Assétou KANOUTE, Bourama DIAKITE, Souleymane DIARRA, Samba TRAORE and Dommo TIMBELY

Date: 2/1/2019

Resource Type: Case study

East & Southern Africa

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Facilitating Social Learning through Farmer Research Networks

Building Knowledge together: Designing farm level experimentation with multiple actors learning from multi-environments. A presentation made to the FRN working group on facilitating social learning through FRNs, based on research done in the Best Bets FRN in Malawi.

Source: Frank Tchuwa

Date: 1/22/2019

Resource Type: Learning / story

East & Southern Africa

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How to Prepare and Use Botanical Pesticides

How to prepare and use botanical pesticides (in English). This short video provides details to African farmers and knowledge providers on optimized methods of collection, preparation and application of botanical pesticides in smallholder farming systems.

Source: Professor Steven Belmain, Prof. of Ecology, University of Greenwich, Kent, UK

Date: 9/12/2018

Resource Type: Video

East & Southern Africa

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Farmer Research Networks: Drylands FRN 2014–2018

Date: 5/21/2018

Resource Type: Mini case study

East & Southern Africa

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Farmer Research Networks: FRN-NGO 2013–2018

Date: 5/21/2018

Resource Type: Mini case study

East & Southern Africa

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Breeding pipeline: Groundnut breeding 2007-2017

Date: 2/7/2018

Resource Type: Mini case study

East & Southern Africa

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Breeding pipeline: P-efficient legumes 2006-2017

Date: 2/7/2018

Resource Type: Mini case study

East & Southern Africa

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Agriculture for nutrition: legume diversification 2016-2018

The project team investigated whether a participatory approach to testing agroecological practices and improved nutrition can lead to enhanced legume production and utilization in rural communities in Singida District, Tanzania. Previous CCRP-funded research in Malawi has shown the potential for such an approach which can lead to successful development outcomes and build on this research. […]

Date: 2/7/2018

Resource Type: Mini case study

East & Southern Africa

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