Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) as a staple food besides providing necessary body energy in human diet provides significant amounts of Vitamin A addressing both Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) and body energy needs. The Viable ...

Presentation on Introducing the CGIAR research program on dryland systems

The need to sustainably intensify agricultural production using irrigation dates as far back as the Egyptian civilization. In modern day Africa, irrigation offers an opportunity to get more crops per drop as a solution to ...

Community-based conservation (CBC) aims to benefit local people as well as to achieve conservation goals, but has been criticised for taking a simplistic view of “community” and failing to recognise differences in the ...

In order to encourage gender equality in delivery of varietal knowledge to male and female farmers in Ada‟a and Ensaro districts of Ethiopia, chickpea breeders set a policy that each male farmer would bring along his wife ...

Poster of Participation of Female-headed Households in Sheep Fattening in Ethiopia

Efforts have been made to intensify crop production through various technologies including irrigation schemes practices in Southern Africa as in other developing countries, however less focus have been placed on the extent ...

A “Gender Control Tool” was developed to measure women’s control over decision-making for agricultural production, sales, and use of income. The tool was tested for groundnuts in Eastern Province, Zambia, where mechanisation ...

Photos of Implementation and planning meeting for East and Southern Africa in Kenya

There has been an observable shift of extension practices in developing countries across the globe; from micro level centered approach to group centered extension practices. This paper examines the influence of gender ...