Innovation Collaboration Education
- Productivity
- Economics
- Environment
- Nutrition
- Social
- IWMI
- IFPRI
- ILRI
- ILSSI
- Bahir Dar Univ.
- Tufts Univ.
- Africa RISING
- NC&AT
- Farmers
- Youth
- Undergraduates
- Graduates (MS, PhD)
- Scholars and Extension
Information Evaluation Communication
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Natural Resources
- Water Management
- Water Quality
- Soil Health
Cropping Systems
(Vegetable Production)
- Irrigation Systems
- Mulching
- Water Harvesting
Livestock Systems
- Forage Crops
- Nutrition Benefits
- Feed Management
Human Condition
- Human Nutrition
- Human Health
- Human Drudgery
Mechanization
- Solar Power Pumps
- Plough and Planters
- Chopper and Threshers
Geospatial and Models
- Decision Support Tools
- Crop/Field Mapping
- Groundwater Quality
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Impacts:
Number of Technologies: 10
Long-term: 5; Short-term Training: 135
+40%Yield; +100% Income; +45% Water
Saving; + 30% Labor Saving.
Gender • Youth • Environment • Data Management

Natural Resource Management:
Water Management: Developing strategies to improve water use efficiency (e.g. water
productivity); Water Quality: Measuring surface and groundwater quality at the watershed
level for pesticides and nutrient contamination; Soil Health: Measuring impacts of mulching,
legumes and water management on soil health (e.g. soil quality; and soil moisture retention).
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Technologies / Innovations:
Sustainable Intensification and
Systems Approaches
Cropping Systems Management:
Water Lifting and Irrigation Systems: Evaluating benefits of different water lifting and water
application methods to increase water productivity for high value vegetable crops; Mulching:
Using locally available mulch to cover soil, minimize evaporation, and provide soil organic
matter; Water Harvesting: Using in situ water harvesting methods (e.g. raised bed and
furrow system, and tied ridges) to increase water infiltration and soil moisture.
Livestock Systems Management:
Forage Crops: Evaluating use of multipurpose legumes as intercrops with maize to supply
high value forage; Nutritional Benefits: Diversified crops to feed livestock can enhance
productivity; Livestock Feed Management: Harvesting maize biomass to feed livestock will
provide options for improved management of livestock.
Human Condition:
Human Nutrition: Evaluating the opportunities to enhance human nutrition through linkages
between irrigation and nutrition; Human Health: Measuring impact of various interventions
on human health – particularly malaria; Human Drudgery: Developing mechanization
opportunities to minimize human labor and drudgery for major agricultural practices (e.g.
water capture, irrigation, planting, weeding, harvesting, and threshing).
Mechanization:
Water Lifting: Using solar powered pumps for water lifting to store water and link with drip
irrigation systems. Land Preparation: Improving design of local ploughs to be more effective
in land preparation and planting; Forage Chopper: Designing efficient and faster methods to
chop fodder; Threshers: Improving design of local threshers to be more efficient.
Geospatial Tools:
Decision Support Tools: Understanding of potential sustainability of natural resources under
various conditions; Ground Water Quality: Monitoring and mapping water quality in the Lake
Tana region. Crop/Field Mapping: Developing and improving tools to enhance quality of crop
and field-mapping, useful for decision support tools.

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Long-termTraining: 8 Graduate Students
Tadisual Asamin (MS)
Engineering Hydrology
Bahir Dar University
ElsabethTsegaye (MS)
Engineering Hydrology
Bahir Dar University
Ayele Mamo (MS)
Engineering Hydrology
Bahir Dar University
Feleke Kuraz (Ph.D.)
Water Resources Management
Bahir Dar University
Addisu Wondimne (MS)
Chemical Engineering
Bahir Dar University
Sisay Asres (Ph.D.)
Water Resources Management
Bahir Dar University
Daniel Geletaw (MS)
Engineering Hydrology
Bahir Dar University
DagnewYehualie (MS)
Hydraulic Engineering
Bahir Dar University