Compiled by Simret Yasabu, Hossana, SNNPR, 4-6 April 2017

1. Photo report of the Training of Trainers on Scaling of Africa
RISING project validated technologies/innovations in the
Ethiopian Highlands, Hossana, SNNPR, 4-6 April 2017

2. Partial view of the ToT participants

3. Kindu Mekonnen, Africa RISING crop-livestock systems scientist, accepting questions from
participants

4. Annet Mulema, Gender scientist, presenting gender integration in Africa RISING innovations scaling

5. Training on-going with crop group

6. Training on-going with Natural Resource Management (NRM) group

7. Annet Mulema (left) and Teklu Kidane (right) from ILRI

8. Melkamu Bezabih from ILRI presenting feed trough technology

9. Wachemo university team plans their engagement with Africa RISING

10. Send a Cow team plans their engagement with Africa RISING

11. Daniel, Wachemo University, presents his team plan on Africa RISING collaboration

12. Muluneh Tesfaye, Ethiopian Catholic Church-Hosanna, presents his team plan
on Africa RISING collaboration

13. Workneh Dubale, Africa RISING Site coordinator, briefing participants ahead of the field visit

14. Hadia Seid, ICRAF, Leading her group to visit the avocado technology trial

15. Participants moving to the next technology visit

16. Africa RISING introduced avocado and potato technologies

17. Bekelech Belachew and her husband, accepting thank you messages from the
visitors for their dedication to test the technologies and show the results

18. Participants walking to their next field visit destination

19. Trainees witnessing the functionality of the Multi-Purpose tractor

20. Asheber Kifle (right), CIP and Rabi Yahya (left),CIMMYT

21. Participants visiting the feed trough technology that Africa RISING introduced

22. Solar pump is one of the technologies that IWMI/Africa RISING introduced to support farmers easily
access and utilize water resources in their surroundings

23. Participants moving to the next technology visit

24. Final session of the ToT- General discussion

25. Simret Yasabu , Research Communication Specialist, facilitating the general discussion
session

26. Coffee being serves to the participants

27. Discussing on the way forward

28. Results of the improved avocado variety ICRAF/Africa RISING introduced

29. Closing remark by Wachemo university

30. Wachemo university compound

31. Group picture of participants at the Training of Trainers in Hossana

32. Africa RISING CGIAR partners in Ethiopia

33. Africa RISING local partners in Ethiopia
• Academic institutions:
• Wachemo, Mekelle, Madawolabu, Debre Berhan and Hawassa universities; Maichew
Agricultural College
• Regional research organizations:
• Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute, Southern Agricultural Research
Institute, Tigray Agricultural Research Institute, Oromia Agricultural Research Institute
• Federal research organizations:
• Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research, Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research
Institute
• Offices of Agriculture:
• Endamekoni (Tigray), Basona Worena (Amhara), Lemo (SNNRP) and Sinana (Oromia)
• Agricultural Transformation Agency

34. Credits
Produced by Africa RISING Project in Ethiopia
Compiled by Simret Yasabu
Photos: ILRI/ Simret Yasabu and Wachemo
University

35. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
africa-rising.net
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