Decision support tools for farm-level fertilizer recommendation in Ethiopiaafrica-rising
This document summarizes research on developing site-specific fertilizer recommendations for Ethiopia. The research identified nutrient management zones within wheat farming systems based on factors like elevation, soil properties, and crop yields. Testing various fertilizer blends in farmers' fields within these zones showed that crop response depended on location. Footslope areas did well with no fertilizer effect, while midslope saw distinct differences between treatments. Hillslope areas showed no difference, indicating non-responsive soils. The results suggest fertilizer recommendations need to consider entire farming systems rather than individual administrative areas. Next steps include validating the approach in other cropping systems and developing farmer-friendly decision tools.
Africa RISING in the Ethiopian highlands: Research for development driving su...africa-rising
The Africa RISING project in Ethiopia's highlands is a five-year research initiative nearing completion. It aims to sustainably intensify mixed crop-livestock farming through 17 action research protocols. This involves improving yields, closing seasonal feed gaps, enhancing water management, reducing soil loss, and fine-tuning fertilizer recommendations. Key outcomes include doubled wheat yields, increased fodder production, expanded irrigation, and restored landscapes. Capacity building activities have engaged thousands of farmers, students, and local partners in knowledge exchange. Continued support may scale proven innovations to millions of households through development partnerships.
Key challenges in smallholder cereal-legume-livestock systems in the Guinea s...africa-rising
Presented by S.S. Buah (CSIR-SARI) and N. Karbo (CSIR-ARI) at the Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting Tamale, Ghana, 23-25 October 2012
The document summarizes the work of the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT (TSBF) on Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM). It discusses TSBF's goals, definition of ISFM, impact zones, activities, progress against outputs in different crop systems, collaboration with CRPs, statistics on funding and challenges, and future plans. The overall aim is to improve livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa through sustainable agricultural production systems based on ISFM principles.
Soil Degradation,Factors that Contribute to Soil Fertility Depletion,Implementation of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM).Previous Research Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Africa RISING: Status of research planning in East and Southern Africaafrica-rising
Presented by Mateete Bekunda (IITA) and Regis Chikowo (MSU) at the Africa RISING Monitoring & Evaluation Expert Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 5-7 September 2012
Integrated soil fertility management: definition and impact on productivity a...SIANI
This document discusses integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) in sub-Saharan Africa. It defines ISFM as the application of soil fertility practices adapted to local conditions, including the use of fertilizer, organic inputs, and improved crops, to maximize nutrient use efficiency and productivity. The paper explores: (1) expected fertilizer responses under different soil types; (2) combining organic resources with fertilizer; and (3) adapting practices to local conditions like soil acidity or drought. Examples are provided for sorghum, millet, legume-maize, and cassava systems. Both crop yields and soil carbon impacts of ISFM are examined.
Decision support tools for farm-level fertilizer recommendation in Ethiopiaafrica-rising
This document summarizes research on developing site-specific fertilizer recommendations for Ethiopia. The research identified nutrient management zones within wheat farming systems based on factors like elevation, soil properties, and crop yields. Testing various fertilizer blends in farmers' fields within these zones showed that crop response depended on location. Footslope areas did well with no fertilizer effect, while midslope saw distinct differences between treatments. Hillslope areas showed no difference, indicating non-responsive soils. The results suggest fertilizer recommendations need to consider entire farming systems rather than individual administrative areas. Next steps include validating the approach in other cropping systems and developing farmer-friendly decision tools.
Africa RISING in the Ethiopian highlands: Research for development driving su...africa-rising
The Africa RISING project in Ethiopia's highlands is a five-year research initiative nearing completion. It aims to sustainably intensify mixed crop-livestock farming through 17 action research protocols. This involves improving yields, closing seasonal feed gaps, enhancing water management, reducing soil loss, and fine-tuning fertilizer recommendations. Key outcomes include doubled wheat yields, increased fodder production, expanded irrigation, and restored landscapes. Capacity building activities have engaged thousands of farmers, students, and local partners in knowledge exchange. Continued support may scale proven innovations to millions of households through development partnerships.
Key challenges in smallholder cereal-legume-livestock systems in the Guinea s...africa-rising
Presented by S.S. Buah (CSIR-SARI) and N. Karbo (CSIR-ARI) at the Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting Tamale, Ghana, 23-25 October 2012
The document summarizes the work of the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT (TSBF) on Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM). It discusses TSBF's goals, definition of ISFM, impact zones, activities, progress against outputs in different crop systems, collaboration with CRPs, statistics on funding and challenges, and future plans. The overall aim is to improve livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa through sustainable agricultural production systems based on ISFM principles.
Soil Degradation,Factors that Contribute to Soil Fertility Depletion,Implementation of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM).Previous Research Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Africa RISING: Status of research planning in East and Southern Africaafrica-rising
Presented by Mateete Bekunda (IITA) and Regis Chikowo (MSU) at the Africa RISING Monitoring & Evaluation Expert Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 5-7 September 2012
Integrated soil fertility management: definition and impact on productivity a...SIANI
This document discusses integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) in sub-Saharan Africa. It defines ISFM as the application of soil fertility practices adapted to local conditions, including the use of fertilizer, organic inputs, and improved crops, to maximize nutrient use efficiency and productivity. The paper explores: (1) expected fertilizer responses under different soil types; (2) combining organic resources with fertilizer; and (3) adapting practices to local conditions like soil acidity or drought. Examples are provided for sorghum, millet, legume-maize, and cassava systems. Both crop yields and soil carbon impacts of ISFM are examined.
This document discusses alternatives to conventional agriculture that are more sustainable and community-focused. It proposes agroecology using multicropping instead of monocropping to preserve biodiversity. Small farmers struggle with the costs of organic certification, so the document suggests trust-based community certification instead. A community/farmer-led approach can identify best agroecological practices and collectively promote local food sovereignty. Strengthening links between producers and consumers through local marketing systems is recommended. Overall it argues for investing in education, identifying best practices, and building connections to strengthen smallholder food producers and diverse rural communities.
Norman Uphoff presented on improving food production in a water-constrained world through agroecological practices like the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). SRI has led to higher rice yields with less water, fewer inputs, and more resilience to stresses. It has now spread to over 50 countries and is being adapted for other crops. SRI achieves more productive plant phenotypes through improved soil conditions and plant establishment techniques. Trials in several countries found SRI uses 22-35% less water but yields are typically 11-25% higher. SRI also reduces costs, increases profits, and has environmental benefits like less greenhouse gas emissions and groundwater pollution. Uphoff argues SRI shows farmers can meet
Africa RISING in the Ethiopian highlands: Some phase I achievementsafrica-rising
This document summarizes achievements from Phase I of the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands. It reports that the project achieved: (1) wheat yields up to 9.4 tons/hectare and faba bean yields up to 6 tons/hectare, (2) improved potato varieties with higher yields, earlier maturity, and blight tolerance, and (3) increased forage crop yields filling feed gaps for livestock. It also discusses improved water management, reduced soil loss, fine-tuned fertilizer recommendations, income diversification through fruit trees, capacity building activities, scaling of validated technologies, and partnerships involved in the project.
van Asten - CIALCA's efforts in farming systems R4DCIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
Conservation Agriculture & SRI for climate change adaptation and food security Sri Lmb
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Visiting Professor, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading;
Convener, Land Husbandry Group of the Tropical Agriculture Association (TAA);
Former Deputy Director General at WARDA (the Africa Rice Centre) and Interim Executive
Secretary, CGIAR Science Council
This document discusses the importance of considering local nutrition, biodiversity, and cultural practices when developing landscape and food system interventions. It addresses the following key points:
1) Putting local people and their knowledge, varieties/breeds, forest foods, and cultural practices at the center of interventions.
2) Taking a "whole of diet" approach that considers the diversity of foods needed, including cereals, tubers, roots, legumes, fruits, vegetables, nuts, meat/fish, and insects, to meet nutritional needs.
3) Bioversity is developing tools to document local food biodiversity, composition, consumption, seasonality, and affordability to identify opportunities to promote production and consumption of local
Implementing the New Strategic Directions: Medium Term Plan 2010-2012CIAT
The document summarizes CIAT's medium term plan from 2010-2012. It outlines CIAT's mission to reduce hunger and poverty through eco-efficient agriculture research. It describes CIAT's programs and research in agrobiodiversity, tropical soils, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. The research focuses on improving crops like beans, cassava, rice and forages to meet environmental, economic and social needs of small farmers.
Jonathan Muriuki gave a presentation on evergreen agriculture in East Africa at the Beating Famine Conference at ICRAF in Nairobi. He discussed how conventional farming is not sustainable and leads to soil degradation. Conservation agriculture and agroforestry techniques like planting trees on cropland can help maintain soil cover, fix nitrogen, improve soil structure and water retention. Evergreen agriculture, a form of intensive farming, integrates trees and annual crops to maintain year-round green cover. Examples of evergreen agriculture systems in East Africa include planting fodder shrubs, mango trees, and Faidherbia albida in maize fields. Successful scaling up of evergreen agriculture requires addressing issues like tree species
Cereals and pulses sustainable agri food systems under climate changeICARDA
Parallel oral thematic sessions II Cereals and pulses sustainable agri food systems under climate change (ICARDA session)
Organiser: Charles Kleinerman, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Contact: C.kleinermann(at)cgiar.org
Date: Thursday, 19.09.2019, 14:00 – 15:30 h
Main purpose of the Parallel oral thematic session:
Presentations in this session will show how current research conducted by ICARDA and its partners in the CWANA region can support a transition towards nutrition-sensitive and climate smart cereal-based agri-food systems under irrigated and rainfed conditions. We will show in particular how plant breeding, agronomy, livestock feeding and systems analysis can be combined to support this diversification and sustainable intensification of cereal-based agri-food systems.
Promotion and adoption of Conservation AgricultureFreddyVHulst
This document summarizes research on the adoption and promotion of conservation agriculture (CA) among smallholder farmers in Laikipia County, Kenya. The researcher found that training farmers through farmer field schools significantly increased farmers' intentions to adopt CA practices by positively influencing their attitudes and perceptions of control over using the practices. However, promoting CA also faces challenges from social norms and gender roles. The researcher concludes that effectively promoting CA requires improving farmers' learning, capabilities, and respecting their independence, using more communicative approaches rather than just providing information.
Title: The System of Tef Intensification (STI): Modifying crop management for greater food security in Ethiopia
Poster by: Tareke Berhe, Ayele G. Ayetenfisu,
Zewdie Gebretsadik, and Norman Uphoff
Date: October 13, 2015
[Poster presented at the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security at Cornell University.]
The document summarizes on-farm trials of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) conducted in Eastern Visayas, Philippines from 2004-2006. Key findings include average SRI yields being 2-4 tons/ha higher than traditional methods, with some farmers achieving over 13 tons/ha. Over 30 orientations introduced SRI to over 1,000 farmers. On-farm trials on over 50 sites demonstrated SRI's benefits, leading more farmers to adopt the method in subsequent seasons. The trials were conducted by agricultural agencies and evaluated SRI's yield increases and economic benefits compared to traditional rice cultivation.
This document discusses knowledge gaps related to dryland production systems and the role of trees. It notes that while trees provide many benefits like increasing water and nutrient availability, their contributions are not well quantified. Trees can positively impact crop and livestock production through water redistribution and fixation, but competition also exists. The optimal design of integrated tree-crop and tree-livestock systems requires more research. There is also a need to consider both green and blue water management and the social benefits of trees in Sahelian landscapes to better develop sustainable agricultural systems in these dryland regions.
Factors affecting adoption of conservation agriculture in malawiJames Mlamba
This thesis examines factors affecting the adoption of conservation agriculture in Malawi. It focuses on a case study in Salima District, one of the areas promoting conservation agriculture due to low rainfall and high temperatures. The author conducted surveys using questionnaires and interviews with farmers and agricultural officers. Key findings include that gender of the household head, membership in farmer groups, and farmer trainings significantly impacted adoption and continued use of conservation agriculture. Higher income levels and personal investment in initial inputs also led to greater retention of the practices. Main challenges for farmers were weed management, access to farm inputs, and crop residue management. The study recommends encouraging farmer group savings for inputs rather than grants, and emphasizing group membership and trainings to promote wider adoption.
A corrida popular de 2014 teve como data 23 de novembro e contou com a participação de mulheres na categoria comercial. Meire das Chagas Botelho ficou em primeiro lugar com o tempo de 37 minutos e 11 segundos.
Professor Dr Michael Gessler and his Colleague Falk Howe in this essay describe the new approach for vocational training interventions. In my opinion this could be a successful model in the international development cooperation.
This document discusses alternatives to conventional agriculture that are more sustainable and community-focused. It proposes agroecology using multicropping instead of monocropping to preserve biodiversity. Small farmers struggle with the costs of organic certification, so the document suggests trust-based community certification instead. A community/farmer-led approach can identify best agroecological practices and collectively promote local food sovereignty. Strengthening links between producers and consumers through local marketing systems is recommended. Overall it argues for investing in education, identifying best practices, and building connections to strengthen smallholder food producers and diverse rural communities.
Norman Uphoff presented on improving food production in a water-constrained world through agroecological practices like the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). SRI has led to higher rice yields with less water, fewer inputs, and more resilience to stresses. It has now spread to over 50 countries and is being adapted for other crops. SRI achieves more productive plant phenotypes through improved soil conditions and plant establishment techniques. Trials in several countries found SRI uses 22-35% less water but yields are typically 11-25% higher. SRI also reduces costs, increases profits, and has environmental benefits like less greenhouse gas emissions and groundwater pollution. Uphoff argues SRI shows farmers can meet
Africa RISING in the Ethiopian highlands: Some phase I achievementsafrica-rising
This document summarizes achievements from Phase I of the Africa RISING project in the Ethiopian highlands. It reports that the project achieved: (1) wheat yields up to 9.4 tons/hectare and faba bean yields up to 6 tons/hectare, (2) improved potato varieties with higher yields, earlier maturity, and blight tolerance, and (3) increased forage crop yields filling feed gaps for livestock. It also discusses improved water management, reduced soil loss, fine-tuned fertilizer recommendations, income diversification through fruit trees, capacity building activities, scaling of validated technologies, and partnerships involved in the project.
van Asten - CIALCA's efforts in farming systems R4DCIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
Conservation Agriculture & SRI for climate change adaptation and food security Sri Lmb
Dr. Amir Kassam, OBE, FSB
Visiting Professor, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading;
Convener, Land Husbandry Group of the Tropical Agriculture Association (TAA);
Former Deputy Director General at WARDA (the Africa Rice Centre) and Interim Executive
Secretary, CGIAR Science Council
This document discusses the importance of considering local nutrition, biodiversity, and cultural practices when developing landscape and food system interventions. It addresses the following key points:
1) Putting local people and their knowledge, varieties/breeds, forest foods, and cultural practices at the center of interventions.
2) Taking a "whole of diet" approach that considers the diversity of foods needed, including cereals, tubers, roots, legumes, fruits, vegetables, nuts, meat/fish, and insects, to meet nutritional needs.
3) Bioversity is developing tools to document local food biodiversity, composition, consumption, seasonality, and affordability to identify opportunities to promote production and consumption of local
Implementing the New Strategic Directions: Medium Term Plan 2010-2012CIAT
The document summarizes CIAT's medium term plan from 2010-2012. It outlines CIAT's mission to reduce hunger and poverty through eco-efficient agriculture research. It describes CIAT's programs and research in agrobiodiversity, tropical soils, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. The research focuses on improving crops like beans, cassava, rice and forages to meet environmental, economic and social needs of small farmers.
Jonathan Muriuki gave a presentation on evergreen agriculture in East Africa at the Beating Famine Conference at ICRAF in Nairobi. He discussed how conventional farming is not sustainable and leads to soil degradation. Conservation agriculture and agroforestry techniques like planting trees on cropland can help maintain soil cover, fix nitrogen, improve soil structure and water retention. Evergreen agriculture, a form of intensive farming, integrates trees and annual crops to maintain year-round green cover. Examples of evergreen agriculture systems in East Africa include planting fodder shrubs, mango trees, and Faidherbia albida in maize fields. Successful scaling up of evergreen agriculture requires addressing issues like tree species
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Parallel oral thematic sessions II Cereals and pulses sustainable agri food systems under climate change (ICARDA session)
Organiser: Charles Kleinerman, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Contact: C.kleinermann(at)cgiar.org
Date: Thursday, 19.09.2019, 14:00 – 15:30 h
Main purpose of the Parallel oral thematic session:
Presentations in this session will show how current research conducted by ICARDA and its partners in the CWANA region can support a transition towards nutrition-sensitive and climate smart cereal-based agri-food systems under irrigated and rainfed conditions. We will show in particular how plant breeding, agronomy, livestock feeding and systems analysis can be combined to support this diversification and sustainable intensification of cereal-based agri-food systems.
Promotion and adoption of Conservation AgricultureFreddyVHulst
This document summarizes research on the adoption and promotion of conservation agriculture (CA) among smallholder farmers in Laikipia County, Kenya. The researcher found that training farmers through farmer field schools significantly increased farmers' intentions to adopt CA practices by positively influencing their attitudes and perceptions of control over using the practices. However, promoting CA also faces challenges from social norms and gender roles. The researcher concludes that effectively promoting CA requires improving farmers' learning, capabilities, and respecting their independence, using more communicative approaches rather than just providing information.
Title: The System of Tef Intensification (STI): Modifying crop management for greater food security in Ethiopia
Poster by: Tareke Berhe, Ayele G. Ayetenfisu,
Zewdie Gebretsadik, and Norman Uphoff
Date: October 13, 2015
[Poster presented at the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security at Cornell University.]
The document summarizes on-farm trials of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) conducted in Eastern Visayas, Philippines from 2004-2006. Key findings include average SRI yields being 2-4 tons/ha higher than traditional methods, with some farmers achieving over 13 tons/ha. Over 30 orientations introduced SRI to over 1,000 farmers. On-farm trials on over 50 sites demonstrated SRI's benefits, leading more farmers to adopt the method in subsequent seasons. The trials were conducted by agricultural agencies and evaluated SRI's yield increases and economic benefits compared to traditional rice cultivation.
This document discusses knowledge gaps related to dryland production systems and the role of trees. It notes that while trees provide many benefits like increasing water and nutrient availability, their contributions are not well quantified. Trees can positively impact crop and livestock production through water redistribution and fixation, but competition also exists. The optimal design of integrated tree-crop and tree-livestock systems requires more research. There is also a need to consider both green and blue water management and the social benefits of trees in Sahelian landscapes to better develop sustainable agricultural systems in these dryland regions.
Factors affecting adoption of conservation agriculture in malawiJames Mlamba
This thesis examines factors affecting the adoption of conservation agriculture in Malawi. It focuses on a case study in Salima District, one of the areas promoting conservation agriculture due to low rainfall and high temperatures. The author conducted surveys using questionnaires and interviews with farmers and agricultural officers. Key findings include that gender of the household head, membership in farmer groups, and farmer trainings significantly impacted adoption and continued use of conservation agriculture. Higher income levels and personal investment in initial inputs also led to greater retention of the practices. Main challenges for farmers were weed management, access to farm inputs, and crop residue management. The study recommends encouraging farmer group savings for inputs rather than grants, and emphasizing group membership and trainings to promote wider adoption.
A corrida popular de 2014 teve como data 23 de novembro e contou com a participação de mulheres na categoria comercial. Meire das Chagas Botelho ficou em primeiro lugar com o tempo de 37 minutos e 11 segundos.
Professor Dr Michael Gessler and his Colleague Falk Howe in this essay describe the new approach for vocational training interventions. In my opinion this could be a successful model in the international development cooperation.
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This short document promotes creating presentations using Haiku Deck on SlideShare. It encourages the reader to get started making their own Haiku Deck presentation by providing a button to click to begin the process. In a single sentence, it pitches presentation creation using Haiku Deck on SlideShare.
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The document discusses the importance of including Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish language subjects in engineering and other courses to help the school achieve its mission of producing globally competitive graduates. It poses research questions on how these foreign languages can increase job opportunities and help the institute attain its goals. Significant findings include the implementation of other foreign languages at the school, the higher average salary of multilingual individuals, and benefits such as increased job opportunities, cultural understanding, reduced dementia risk, and boosted self-confidence. The conclusion emphasizes that communicating with others in their own language connects with their heart.
This document summarizes a student's MSc thesis exploring how contemporary yoga small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) use social media for marketing. The student conducted interviews with 8 international contemporary yoga SMEs to understand their motivations for and experiences with adopting social media. The objectives were to investigate how and why these SMEs use social media for marketing, explore the process of how they utilize it, and discover the benefits and challenges of adoption. The literature review covers topics like social media applications in business, strategies for SMEs, branding challenges for yoga businesses, and utilizing social media for marketing authenticity. The methodology section describes using a grounded theory qualitative approach to analyze the interview data.
This document defines and discusses the key elements of an essay. An essay is a short literary composition that expresses the author's personal thoughts on a subject that interests them. Essays can be either informal and light, focusing on entertainment, or more formal and informative, aiming to stimulate the intellect. Effective essays introduce the topic, share the writer's viewpoint and thoughts, and explain the relevance of the issue to the reader's life.
Crop varieties research and implications on closing yield gaps and diversifyi...africa-rising
Presented by Kalpana Sharma, Frédéric Baudron, Yetsedaw Aynewa, Seid Ahmed Kemal, Asheber Kifle, Meresiet Hailu and Shawkat Begum at the Workshop and Exhibition on Promoting Productivity and Market Access Technologies and Approaches to Improve Farm Income and Livelihoods in Ethiopia: Lessons from Action Research Projects, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 8-9 December 2016
Sustainable intensification indicator framework for Africa RISINGafrica-rising
Presented by Philip Grabowski (Michigan State University), Mark Musumba (Columbia University), Cheryl Palm (University of Florida) and Sieg Snapp (Michigan State University) at the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Phase II Planning Meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 5-8 October 2016
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The document summarizes a visit by an external review team to Africa RISING project sites in Ethiopia in late March 2015. The team met with partners, farmers, and Africa RISING staff. They observed how farmers have adopted and scaled crop and feed technologies within and outside the project sites. For example, some women farmers were selling potatoes and using the income to buy motorized water pumps. Farmers were satisfied with various feed interventions introduced by the project. The team was positive about initial results and impacts. Photos documented project interventions like crop residue storage, fodder trees, and seed production activities.
Photo report on field visits to Africa RISING research sites in Endamehoni an...africa-rising
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Photo report on end of season field visit to Endamehoni woreda in Tigray, Eth...africa-rising
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Flux des nutriments (N, P, K) des resources organiques dans les exploitations...africa-rising
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Abstract:
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The cost of acquiring information by natural selectionCarl Bergstrom
This is a short talk that I gave at the Banff International Research Station workshop on Modeling and Theory in Population Biology. The idea is to try to understand how the burden of natural selection relates to the amount of information that selection puts into the genome.
It's based on the first part of this research paper:
The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
Ryan Seamus McGee, Olivia Kosterlitz, Artem Kaznatcheev, Benjamin Kerr, Carl T. Bergstrom
bioRxiv 2022.07.02.498577; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.02.498577
The cost of acquiring information by natural selection
Photo report on landscape-based exchange visits between local partners of the Basona Worena and Lemo Africa RISING sites, Ethiopia, 11-13 May 2016
1. Photo report on landscape-based exchange visits
between local partners of the Basona Worena
and Lemo Africa RISING sites
11-13 May 2016
Ethiopia
2. Introduction
Africa RISING in the Ethiopian highlands has been conducting on-farm action research on
more than 18 crop, livestock feed, water, land management and high value fruit tree
interventions. The project also carried out exploratory studies on gender, nutrition,
epidemiology, technology adoption, livestock marketing and value chains. In addition to
the farm level research activities, the project works on landscapes with a leading role from
CIAT and in collaboration with ILRI, IWMI, ICRAF , Mekelle University and local partners.
It regularly organizes exchange visits, field-days, training and innovation platform meetings
to share knowledge and share lessons. As a component of the landscape activity, the
project organized an exchange visit for the Basona Worena and Lemo local partners from
11-13 May 2016 to:
1. Review whether 2015 plans have already been implemented on the ground;
2. Visit and assess farm-level action research activities and landscape soil and water
conservation interventions;
3. Identify good lessons in each site and enhance adoption across sites.
Soil and water conservation activities implemented in the watershed are Biological
(Phalaris, tree Lucerne, Vetiver, desho grass) and Physical (Soil bund, stone bund, stone
faced soil bund, trench, cut off drain, hill side terrace, micro basin, eyebrow basin, stone
and wooden check-dams, gabion and water harvesting ponds).
5. Discussing where to place percolation pits and how they work in the landscape. Participants
recommended to establish pits in hillsides and degraded lands
24. Academic institutions:
Wachemo, Mekelle, Madawolabu, Debre Berhan and Hawassa universities; Maichew
Agricultural College
Regional research organizations:
Amhara Regional Agricultrural Research Institute, Southern Agricultural Research
Institute, Tigray Agricultural Research Institute, Oromia Agricultural Research
Institute
Federal research organizations:
Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research, Ethiopian Public Health Institute
Offices of Agriculture:
Endamekoni (Tigray), Basona Worena (Amhara), Lemo (SNNRP) and Sinana (Oromia)
Private entrepreneurs
NGOs: GRAD, Hundie, SOS Sahel, Sunarma
Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)
Feed the Future Innovation laboratories: ILSSI, IPM IL, Power Africa
Localpartners- Ethiopia
25. Credits
Produced by Africa RISING Project in Ethiopia
Compiled by Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI), Lulseged Tamene (CIAT), Shimelis
Mengistu (ILRI), Tesfaye Yakob (EIAR) and Fikadu Tesema (ILRI)
Photos: Kindu Mekonnen, Lulseged Tamene and Shimelis Mengistu
Our appreciation goes to CGIAR team members and local partner
organizations including farmers in Africa RISING project sites in Basona
and Lemo
26. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
africa-rising.net
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