presented by Dr. Roland Buresh of International Rice Research Institute during the 2015 AFNR Symposium held last September 30, 2015 at the AIM Makati City.
Delivering information products to small-scale farmers: IRRI's experience wit...CIMMYT
Remote sensing –Beyond images
Mexico 14-15 December 2013
The workshop was organized by CIMMYT Global Conservation Agriculture Program (GCAP) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), CGIAR Research Program on Maize, the Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) and the Sustainable Modernization of the Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro)
Smallholder dairy development and environmental impacts in TanzaniaILRI
Presented by Birthe Paul, Beatus Nzogela, David Ngunga (Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT) at the Maziwa Zaidi stakeholder workshop on Environmental Management Opportunities for Dairy in Tanzania, Arusha, Tanzania, 16 December 2020
presented by Dr. Roland Buresh of International Rice Research Institute during the 2015 AFNR Symposium held last September 30, 2015 at the AIM Makati City.
Delivering information products to small-scale farmers: IRRI's experience wit...CIMMYT
Remote sensing –Beyond images
Mexico 14-15 December 2013
The workshop was organized by CIMMYT Global Conservation Agriculture Program (GCAP) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), CGIAR Research Program on Maize, the Cereal System Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) and the Sustainable Modernization of the Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro)
Smallholder dairy development and environmental impacts in TanzaniaILRI
Presented by Birthe Paul, Beatus Nzogela, David Ngunga (Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT) at the Maziwa Zaidi stakeholder workshop on Environmental Management Opportunities for Dairy in Tanzania, Arusha, Tanzania, 16 December 2020
Contribution of Africa RISING validated technologies, nutrition-education interventions to household nutrition and participatory nutrition-education need assessment with seasonal food availability in Amhara, Oromia and SNNP regions of Ethiopia
Presented by Getnet Assefa (Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research) at the Third ACGG Program Management Team Meeting, Abuja, Nigeria, 2 December 2016
Presented by Mahama Saaka (UDS) and Jean-Baptiste Tignegre (WorldVeg) at Africa RISING Ghana Country Planning Meeting, Tamale, Ghana, and Virtual, 24 - 25 June 2020.
Presented by Jemimah Njuki, Jane Poole, Nancy Johnson, Isabelle Baltenweck, Pamela Pali, Zaibet Lokman and Samuel Mburu at ILRI Addis Ababa, 2 May 2011.
Gender, livestock and livelihood indicators: An updateILRI
Presented by Isabelle Baltenweck, Jemimah Njuki, Jane Poole, Nancy Johnson, Isabelle Baltenweck, Pamela Pali, Zaibet Lokman and Samuel Mburu at the Livestock and Fish Gender Initiative Meeting, Nairobi, 8-12 June 2015
Implementing community-based nutrition intervention through farmer-to-farmer ...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Christopher Mutungi, Audifas Gasper, Mateete Bekunda and Adebayo Abass for the IITA Board of Trustees Annual Spring Meeting, Arusha, Tanzania, 6 - 10 May 2019.
Designing and implementation of community-based breeding programs for adapted...ILRI
Presented by Haile, A., Duguma, G., Mirkena, T., Tibbo, M., Iñiguez, L., Rischkowsky, B., Okeyo, M., Wurzinger, M. and Sölkner, J. at the 5th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture and the 18th Annual Meeting of the Ethiopian Society of Animal Production (ESAP), Addis Ababa, October 25-28, 2010
Livestock management in Ghana 2019/2020africa-rising
Presented by Augustine Ayantunde (ILRI), Sadat Salifu (CSIR-SARI), and Franklin Avornyo (CSIR-SARI) at Africa RISING Ghana Country Planning Meeting, Tamale, Ghana, and Virtual, 24 - 25 June 2020.
Presented by Bekele Kotu (IITA), Abdul Rahman Nurudeen (IITA), Gundula Fischer (IITA), Kipo Jimah (IITA), Mirja Michalscheck (WUR), and Issah Sugri (CSIR-SARI) at Africa RISING Ghana Country Planning Meeting, Tamale, Ghana, and Virtual, 24 - 25 June 2020.
Contribution of Africa RISING validated technologies, nutrition-education interventions to household nutrition and participatory nutrition-education need assessment with seasonal food availability in Amhara, Oromia and SNNP regions of Ethiopia
Presented by Getnet Assefa (Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research) at the Third ACGG Program Management Team Meeting, Abuja, Nigeria, 2 December 2016
Presented by Mahama Saaka (UDS) and Jean-Baptiste Tignegre (WorldVeg) at Africa RISING Ghana Country Planning Meeting, Tamale, Ghana, and Virtual, 24 - 25 June 2020.
Presented by Jemimah Njuki, Jane Poole, Nancy Johnson, Isabelle Baltenweck, Pamela Pali, Zaibet Lokman and Samuel Mburu at ILRI Addis Ababa, 2 May 2011.
Gender, livestock and livelihood indicators: An updateILRI
Presented by Isabelle Baltenweck, Jemimah Njuki, Jane Poole, Nancy Johnson, Isabelle Baltenweck, Pamela Pali, Zaibet Lokman and Samuel Mburu at the Livestock and Fish Gender Initiative Meeting, Nairobi, 8-12 June 2015
Implementing community-based nutrition intervention through farmer-to-farmer ...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Christopher Mutungi, Audifas Gasper, Mateete Bekunda and Adebayo Abass for the IITA Board of Trustees Annual Spring Meeting, Arusha, Tanzania, 6 - 10 May 2019.
Designing and implementation of community-based breeding programs for adapted...ILRI
Presented by Haile, A., Duguma, G., Mirkena, T., Tibbo, M., Iñiguez, L., Rischkowsky, B., Okeyo, M., Wurzinger, M. and Sölkner, J. at the 5th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture and the 18th Annual Meeting of the Ethiopian Society of Animal Production (ESAP), Addis Ababa, October 25-28, 2010
Livestock management in Ghana 2019/2020africa-rising
Presented by Augustine Ayantunde (ILRI), Sadat Salifu (CSIR-SARI), and Franklin Avornyo (CSIR-SARI) at Africa RISING Ghana Country Planning Meeting, Tamale, Ghana, and Virtual, 24 - 25 June 2020.
Presented by Bekele Kotu (IITA), Abdul Rahman Nurudeen (IITA), Gundula Fischer (IITA), Kipo Jimah (IITA), Mirja Michalscheck (WUR), and Issah Sugri (CSIR-SARI) at Africa RISING Ghana Country Planning Meeting, Tamale, Ghana, and Virtual, 24 - 25 June 2020.
Biophysical characterization of watersheds in northern Ghana africa-rising
Poster prepared by Davie Kadyampakeni, Fred Kizito, Asamoah Larbi, Benjamin Ghansah and Richard Appoh for the AfrIca RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, 30 March-1 April 2016
Opportunities of emerging feed market in northern Ghanaafrica-rising
Poster prepared by S.P. Konlan, A.A. Ayantunde, F.K. Avornyo, W. Addah and H.K. Dei for the AfrIca RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, 30 March–1 April 2016Poster prepared by S.P. Konlan, A.A. Ayantunde, F.K. Avornyo, W. Addah and H.K. Dei for the AfrIca RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, 30 March–1 April 2016
Soybean grain yield responses to integrated soil fertility managementafrica-rising
Poster prepared by Asamoah Larbi for the American Society of Agronomy Meeting, Minneapolis, USA, 15-18 November 2015
The Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification (Africa RISING) project is testing and demonstrating several agricultural technologies to intensify and sustain crop yields in small-scale crop-livestock farming systems in Northern Ghana. Results of two multi-locational trials to test and demonstrate the effect of using fertilizer N, P and K and Rhizobium inoculants on grain yield of early-maturing and late-maturing soybean entries are presented.
Integrated soil fertility management affect profitability of soybean in north...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Larbi, A., AddulRahman, N., Kotu, B., Hoeschle-Zeledon, I., Akakpo, D.B. and Mellon S.B. for the AfrIca RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, 30 March–1 April 2016
Strip cropping effect on yield of maize, cowpea and groundnut in northern Ghanaafrica-rising
Poster prepared by Larbi, A., Addul Rahman, N. and Hoeschle-Zeledon, I. for the AfrIca RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, 30 March–1 April 2016
Water, land and soil management strategies to intensify cereal-legume farming...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Fred Kizito, Davie Kadyampakeni, Asamoah Larbi, Eliasu Salifu and Abdul Rahman Nurudeen for the AfrIca RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, 30 March–1 April 2016
Comparative yield performance and fodder quality of Napier grass in northern ...africa-rising
Poster prepared by T. Ansah, D. Kadyampakeni, C. Shedrack and A. Nurudeen for the AfrIca RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, 30 March-1 April 2016
Supporting farmer-managed seed enterprises in Mali—FARMSEMafrica-rising
Presented by E. Weltzien, M. Sidibe, S. Guindo, O. Traore, M. Sidibe, G. Coulibaly, S. Toure and F. Rattunde at the Africa RISING West Africa Project Annual Review and Planning Meeting, Accra, Ghana, 24-25 March 2015
Harnessing partnerships for integrated research the africa rising – esa proje...africa-rising
A reflective presentation by Africa RISING East and Southern Africa Chief Scientist Prof. Mateete Bekunda on the vital lesson learnt in the course of implementing the project over the past five years (2011 - 2015).
Brief Perspective on Global Food situation with regard to Food Safety
Introduction to the Global Food Safety Partnership.
Role and Relevance in the Dairy Sector, especially in Africa..
Upcoming Food Safety Workshop Event..
The IPC-IG's Senior Research Coordinator Fabio Veras attended the annual plenary session of the FAO's Committee on World Food Security (CFS), held in Rome, Italy, from 17 to 21 October. CFS is the foremost inclusive international and intergovernmental platform for all stakeholders to work together to ensure food security and nutrition for all. The Committee reports to the UN General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and to FAO Conference.
The side event "Connecting Smallholders to markets", organized by the Government of Brazil, FAO, WFP and IPC-IG, presented the results of South-South Cooperation initiatives to adapt the Brazilian Hunger Zero (Fome Zero) programme to the context of African countries. Dr. Veras delivered a presentation on the results of the PAA Africa programmes, which aims to implement institutional food purchased from smallholder farmers for school feeding.
Dr. Kristin Davis
Development Strategies and Governance Division
International Food Policy Research Institute
Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) Official Side
Event for FAO Science and Innovation Forum
14 October 2022
An integrated approach to assessing and improving milk safety and nutrition i...ILRI
Presentation by G. Msalya, E. Joseph, F. Shija, L.R. Kurwijila, D. Grace, K Roesel, B Haesler, F Ogutu, A Fetsch, G Misinzo and H Nonga at the First African Regional Conference of the International Association on Ecology and Health (Africa 2013 Ecohealth), Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, 1-5 October 2013.
The Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Regional Program for Southeast Asia (CCAFS-SEA) recently concluded a collective engagement and communication program workshop at the Agricultural Genetics Institute in Hanoi, Vietnam on 29-30 May.
The workshop participants drew insights from best practices of CGIAR member-centers, developed a roadmap to actively engage partners, and draw an overall communication plan to support the implementation of CCAFS research agenda and priorities.
Presented by Angelica Barlis
Africa RISING project implementation and contribution in Ethiopia. Presented at Africa RISING close-out event.
24-25 January 2023
ILRI campus- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Technique de compostage des tiges de cotonnier au Mali-Sudafrica-rising
Poster prepared by Moumini Guindo, Bouba Traoré, Birhanu Zemadim Birhanu, and Alou Coulibaly for the 13th Symposium of the Malian Society of Applied Sciences (MSAS), 01 July – 05 August 2022.
Flux des nutriments (N, P, K) des resources organiques dans les exploitations...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Moumini Guindo, Bouba Traoré, Birhanu Zemadim Birhanu, and Alou Coulibaly for the 13th Symposium of the Malian Society of Applied Sciences (MSAS), 01 July 1 – 05 August 2022.
Eliciting willingness to pay for quality maize and beans: Evidence from exper...africa-rising
Poster prepared by Julius Manda, Adane Tufa, Christopher Mutungi, Arega Alene, Victor Manyong and Tahirou Abdoulaye for the IITA Social Science Group Virtual Meeting, 7 December 2021.
The woman has no right to sell livestock: The role of gender norms in Norther...africa-rising
Presented by Kipo Jimah and Gundula Fischer (IITA) at the virtual conference on Cultivating Equality: Advancing Gender Research in Agriculture and Food Systems, 12-15 October 2021
Africa RISING in Ethiopia organized a farmer’s field day event on 24 December 2020, in Bale, Oromia Region. The field day aimed to create awareness, measure the progress and get feedback on the ongoing food and forage crops technologies. Animal feed seed multiplication on farmers training centers as well as wheat clustered seed multiplication on seed producer's cooperative were included on the visit.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
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As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
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Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
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https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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Africa RISING 2014 plans Ghana
1. Africa RISING
2014 Plans Ghana
Asamoah Larbi (IITA)
Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting,
Bamako, Mali, 3-4 February 2014
2. Africa RISING-Ghana: 2013 Work plan
Situation analysis (Research output 1)
1Community mobilization and innovation platforms
2Farming systems analysis
3Inventory of innovations
Leader
IITA
WUR
IITA
Integrated systems management (Research output 2)
4Improving cereal-legume systems
5Land management strategies
6Agricultural water management
7Improving cattle, sheep and goat production
8Intensifying rural pig and poultry production
9Improving farm household nutrition
IITA
CIAT
IWMI
ILRI
KNUST
GHS, FRI
Scaling and delivery (Research output 3)
10Comparison of delivery approaches
MoFA, UDS
3. Looking ahead………..???????
Technology development versus socio-economics..????
Focus on farming systems research
Integration of activities
Small-scale mechanization and post-harvest losses….???
Value addition…???
4. Proposed work-package title -2014
No
Work-package Title
Leader
1
Establishment of research-for-development platform
IITA
2
Farming systems analysis
WUR
3
Improving crops and cropping systems
IITA
3.1
Aflatoxin
IITA
3.2
Vegetable production
AVRDC
3.3
Agricultural land water management
IWMI
4
Improving grazing lands and livestock
IITA/ILRI
5
Mechanization of production, processing and reduction of post-harvest losses
IITA/???
6
Improving household nutrition
GHS
7
Linking farmers to markets
IITA???
8
Comparison of scaling out approaches
IITA??
5. Approach: Farming Systems Research
Characterization
Designing
Testing/Adapting
Diffusion
Extension Agent
Researcher
11. WP: 3: Improving crops and cropping systems
Output
1. Improved food/feed crops
Activities
Review and report past IITA research on food-feed crops
Identify and promotion dual-purpose/food feed crops
2.Best-bet crop varieties and agronomic practices
Evaluate combinations of crop and agronomic practices
Establish partnerships to produce seed for on-farm
Assess vegetable seed systems
Test intensified vegetable mono cropping systems
Test cereal-vegetable intercropping systems
3. Better integrated crop-livestock systems
Develop and test crop and livestock production strategies
4. Strengthened capacity of partners
Organize a workshop on crop-livestock integration
Organize a short course on experimental design
Organize a short course on business management
Organize training on vegetable production/post-harvest
Arrange inter and intra-regional visits
5. Increased public awareness
Publish project reports and brochures
Publish journal paper
6. Impact of interventions assessed
Assess adoption rate
Assess economic and environmental impact
12. WP: 3b: Biological control of aflatoxin
Output
1. Biological strains identified and selected to
control aflatoxin in maize and groundnuts
Activities
Biological strains selection in lab and field testing
2. Public awareness of aflatoxin
Training of farmers and extension staff
3. Field trial and pre-registration as
bio-pesticide
Test field efficacy of bio-control strains
4. Strengthened capacity of partners
Enhance infra-structural capacity to conduct research
Arrange inter and intra-regional visits
5. Increased public awareness
Publish project reports and brochures
Publish journal paper
6. Impact of interventions assessed
Assess adoption rate
Assess economic and environmental impact
13. WP: 3d: Evolving smallholder farm systems and farm enterprises
Output
Activities
Business plan
Management action sequences
Business planning
Instrumented sites
Procurement of instruments
Protoype implemented
Design and construction
16. WP 4 : Improving grazing lands and livestock
Output
Activity
1. Grazing land and livestock committee formed Organize community consultations
2. Community action to improve grazing land
Access and monitor grazing land condition
Characterize and conserve rangeland biodiversity
Community action to test improved options
3. Community action to improve ruminants
Test management options to improve sheep and goats
Improve processing, marketing and use of crop residues
4. Improved poultry production (15%)
Test options to improve rural poultry production
5. Improved pig production (15%)
Test options to improve rural pig production
6. Build capacity for livestock production
Organize training in sheep/goat, poultry and pig production
Train community health workers
Train graduate students
7. Increased public awareness on livestock
Prepare leaflets for farmers and extension workers
Write annual reports and conference papers
Write journal papers
17.
18. Nutritional status of children (0-60 months of age)
Percentage (%)
Malnourished
Nourished
100
80
60
40
20
0
Chayoli
Tibali
Zanko
Goli
Intervention community
Bonia
Sambulgu
19. WP: 3d: Linking agriculture to nutrition
Output
Activities
Integrated agriculture-nutrition-health identification
Expert workshop to agree on integrated activities
Identify and geo-reference households
Capacity of women and women’s
Train the trainers in health and nutrition workers
Nutritional status of farm-families improved
Publish results of nutrition survey
Comparison of approaches for linking agriculture to nutrition
20. Africa RISING – Ghana: National partners
ARI
CBOs
CRI
FRI
GLDB
INSTI
KNUST
MOFA
MOH
SARI
SEEDPAG
SRI
UDS
UG
Animal Research Institute
Community-based Organizations
Crops Research Institute
Food Research Institute
Grains and Legumes Development Board
Institute for Scientific and Technological Information
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Ministry of Health
Savanna Agricultural Research Institute
Seed Producers Association of Ghana
Soil Research Institute
University for Development Studies
University of Ghana
21. Africa RISING – Ghana: International partners
AVRDC
The World Vegetable Center
CIAT
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
ICRISAT
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics
IITA
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
ILRI
International Livestock Research Institute
IWMI
International Water Management Institute
Editor's Notes
An interactive stepwise process that involves mainly three actors – researchers, extension and farmer in the conduct of four basic phases
Cereal-legume intercropping: Groundnut, early and late millet sorghum and vegetables
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