This leaflet illustrates the benefits from better integration of crops and livestock. We describe forage production and draft power animal management as two complementary technologies critical for sustainable intensification ...

The article reports on farmers feedback on what they have learned and changed in their production to market activities, and community cooperation, successes of IP activities, and required interventions to encourage and ...

This report describes the developed tool and results from the Marara/Changara IP for communities assessing the influence of the IP on their livelihoods, and on self-organization as one of the critical pillars of resilience.

The inception workshop was held on the 2nd and 3rd October at the agricultural training center in Tete city.

In complex mixed crop-livestock systems with limited resources and biomass scarcity, crop residues play an important but increasingly contested role. This paper focuses on farming systems in the semi-arid areas of Zimbabwe, ...

The report summarizes results and feed back from participatory demonstration plots. The plots were implemented with 30 farmers in Tete and Manica each. The set up of demonstrations and priority crops were selected through ...

poverty trap. These barriers include low soil fertility, variable climates, weak knowledge support, and lack of markets. Conventional technical options are insufficient to improve smallholder livelihoods. Given the diversity ...

The success of commercialization of common bean in Dororo district has caught the attention of government officials of Mozambique and other regional organizations who are keen to spread the learnings further.

We believe that innovation platforms (IPs) are a powerful vehicle for implementing and coordinating systems research and for sharing lessons with the wider research for development community. The guideline aims at handy ...

This paper explores the potential and challenges of increasing production of food and feed on existing maize fields in mixed crop-livestock systems in the semi-arid areas of southern Africa. It integrates results from ...