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2018 Technical Report - TAAT - Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation
2018 Technical Report
2017 - 2018 Technical Report - More fruit for food security: developing climate-smart bananas for the African Great Lakes region
The overarching goal of the project is to identify drought-tolerant banana cultivars to help close the yield gap in drought-prone areas. This project focus on the African Great Lakes region, which is one of the poorest ...
Community typology framed by normative climate for agricultural innovation, empowerment, and poverty reduction
This paper employs the concepts of gender norms and agency to advance understanding of
inclusive agricultural innovation processes and their contributions to empowerment and poverty
reduction at the village level. We present ...
Do households that sell their surplus maize reinvest in improved maize seed? Case of southern Africa
This study assesses the influence of selling maize grain on re-investing in Improved Maize Varieties (IMV). It uses a unique data set from five southern African countries of Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe ...
Carbon emissions caused by woodland fires in the African tropical savannas
Uncontrolled fires resulted from irrational land management caused 17-24% of woodlands burnt, 3.4-20.5 million tons of biomass loss, and emitted 1.4-8.1 million tons of C into atmosphere every winter (or dry season).
The ...
2018 Technical Report - CIALCA
In 2018 marks 1 and half years into the current CIALCA phase, we can already report good progress. We entered into several co-investment agreements with scaling partners such as One Acre Fund in Rwanda (serving approx. ...