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Vernon Kabambe - Harnessing synergy from AEI Hub Malawi Platform

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Vernon Kabambe - Harnessing synergy from AEI Hub Malawi Platform

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Our FRNs in Tanzania and Malawi have designed a number of field trials using their own fields as well as supporting demo plots where they could test more parameters alongside each other.  The slides show graphs of their research outcomes.  We are happy to give more explanation on the different trials - just leave us a message.

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farmer led research activities on botanicals

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Participation of Malawi Agro-ecology Intensification hub at the launch event of the 2021 CatchmentArea Conservation and Management Campaign, organised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Malawi

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Profile of Policies, Strategies and Major Programmes Supporting
Agro-ecological Intensification in Malawi

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Keston Njira - poster on agroecological benefits from a pigeon pea-cowpea intercrop

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Keston Njira - poster on agroecological benefits from a pigeon pea-cowpea intercrop

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This poster is one of the documents that came out of the AE Malawi Hub in a process of reviewing the state of agroecology in Malawi. It was also among posters which the AE Malawi Hub presented at a manure launch, a function organized by the Ministry of Agriculture.

The role of legume-based intercropping systems in improving nutrient cycling, efficiency in plant nutrient use and land utilization, and diversified diets attracted attention of a good number of people including government officials. This gives hope to the AE Hub that efforts in disseminating information on agroecological technologies can yield something towards policies. I felt it is important to share this poster to COP as well

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AE Hub: Soil health FRN presentation on striga

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AE Hub: Soil health FRN presentation on striga

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Kenya AE Hub's contribution to the Soil Health FRN 2021 CoP3 presentation. Check out the videos and other collaborator contributions on the Soil Health FRN poster space.

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Crop diversity in Anchor Hub Farm and Gardens

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Kindly watch the above video from AE Hub Kenya. It shows some of the work that we have accomplished after receiving some funding from CCRP for green infrastructure improvements at our facility. Enjoy watching.   Thanks

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CCRP supported Green infrastructure project

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CCRP supported Green infrastructure project

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Careful deconstruction of crumbling colonial era church to maximize recovery of recyclable building materials. Recovered bricks will be used for pathways, blocks for further construction and church slab for base for value addition facility...

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Some of the activities by BB project within the season. (Lameck Vwalika)

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Some of the activities by BB project within the season. (Lameck Vwalika)

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This video is made by Loyd Kayimbe who is a farmer in Malawi. He is communicating his experience of using botanicals to help raise awareness with other farmers.

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Farmer Research Network using botanicals by Loyd Kayimbe, a farmer in the botanicals project Malawi

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Since June 2020 the botanicals project team has been running monthly seminars on pest and disease issues, with a mixture of McKnight project talks from across the regions, discussions with farmers and international experts. You can find all the seminars here. We are hoping to restart the seminars, which may be integrated with other McKnight themes across agro-ecology.

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Seminar series supported by the McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Programme. Talks give overview of different project activities related to eco...

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This video focusses on the use of botanicals to protect stored products and is meant for farmer to farmer communication.

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Tanzania Farmer Research Network on post harvest use of Tephrosia vogelii to protect stored crops

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Integrated Approach to striga management poster

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Integrated Approach to striga management poster

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Poster on integrated approach to striga management 2

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Harnessing community efforts from farm to Landscape level

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Harnessing community efforts from farm to Landscape level

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It had been a miracle since the inception of Drylands FRN team that started with somewhat slowly with farmers considering that land degradation is a natural phenomena and that they have nothing to do about it, to a level of recognizing their efforts in solving it.
It is encouraging to see many farmers coming together and seeking for capacity strengthening to be able to tackle the problem of the massive soil erosion threatening livelihood.
Collaborations between stakeholders is one most important drivers of ensuring seamless knowledge transfer and profiling the farmers as the key decision maker.
We are are thinking of AE Business models inspired by economic survey to help support long-term goals.

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There is need to explore the potential of enhancing soil microbial abundance and diversity as this possess immense potential to promote land productivity and sustainable soil ecosystem health. Therefore, harnessing diversity of microbes from indigenous livestock and apply into crop land offers double-prong benefits to cereal-legume cropping. systems

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EDIKOKOLIMA FARMERS GROUP BUSSINESS MODEL CANVAS

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START HERE!  Introduction to the soil health FRN presentation space

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START HERE!  Introduction to the soil health FRN presentation space

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Please look first at this poster to get an understanding of our overall approach and a guide to what else we have presented below.

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Silo Group FRN members from Migori give their assessments of soil health intervention trade-offs

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Silo Group FRN members from Migori give their assessments of soil health intervention trade-offs

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This film was produced upon request to understand farmers' perceptions of the soil health intervention trade-offs.
Film by Kevin Wanjare of the Rural Farmers Research Network, a CBO in Migori county.
Language: Luo with English subtitles (excuse spelling errors!)

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Impacts of soil health interventions on striga infestation levels and maize grain yields.

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Impacts of soil health interventions on striga infestation levels and maize grain yields.

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By design, the FRN farmers conducted the trial in their striga infested cereal fields. This presentation examines the interventions' effects on striga infestation levels and maize grain yields in the 2020 season.

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Comparison of lablab varieties across different farm locations in Siaya, western Kenya

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Comparison of lablab varieties across different farm locations in Siaya, western Kenya

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This presentation describes the results of farmer- and researcher managed trials in Western Kenya, focusing on both grain and biomass production.

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Dinah (Migori farmer) explains why she prefers lablab for her farm

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Dinah (Migori farmer) explains why she prefers lablab for her farm

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Dinah Anyango Gutu is a member of the Rural Farmer Research and Development Network in Migori county.
Language: Kiswhahili
Film by Kevin Wanjare of RFRN

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Benson Chacha ( Migori farmer) shares his experiences with lablab.

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Benson Chacha ( Migori farmer) shares his experiences with lablab.

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Benson belongs to the Migori CBO, Rural Farmers Research and Development Network (RFRN).
Language: Kiswahili
Filmed by Kevin Wanjare of RFRN

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Understanding soil and farm characteristics and Lablab adaptation across farms in the soil health FRN network trial

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Understanding soil and farm characteristics and Lablab adaptation across farms in the soil health FRN network trial

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This presentation looks at information that was gathered in soil health testing as well as from farmers on soil management, to look at associations and geographic patterns in these data. Then we assess in a preliminary way what we are learning about lablab adaptation to different sites and the patterns that explain particulate organic matter (POM) as a soil health measure.

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CREPP farmers discuss their observations on different lablab varieties

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CREPP farmers discuss their observations on different lablab varieties

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CREPP farmers (Kisumu county) hosted a lablab variety trial.
MLP has a research presentation on the same.
Language: Luo with English subtitles
Film by Geoffrey Omondi, CREPP

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Siaya farmers give their opinions about the soil health interventions they tried.

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Siaya farmers give their opinions about the soil health interventions they tried.

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Farmers supported by Tembea Youth Centre for Sustainable development.
Language: Kiswahili
Filmed by Victor Omondi, Tembea Youth

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Tembea Youth Centre for Sustainable Development

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Soil Health Research Farmers' Experiences with Biochar, Lablab and Compost

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Kisumu farmers experienced flooding in their trial plots

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Kisumu farmers experienced flooding in their trial plots

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Kisumu county FRN farmers working with the NGO CREPP share their experiences with the soil health trial in 2020.
Language: Luo with English subtitles.
Film by Geoffrey Omondi, CREPP

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Effect of floods on FRN soil health trials in Kisumu County

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This video showcases CREPP farmers (Kisumu county) views, observations and challenges faced during the implementation of the soil health trials.
Languages: Luo and Kiswahili with English subtitles
Fim by Geoffrey Omondi

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Sorghum variety selection with farmers brings out wonderful results, check for yourself in this poster

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Improving Community nutrition through sorghum based interventions

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Improving Community nutrition through sorghum based interventions

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Sorghum_Eastern Kenya_Poster Presentation 2021 CoP_work in progress-

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A brief guide to RMS, what we do and how we can work with you

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Here is the diagram of the ToC for CCRP in East and Southern Africa.  Does it still make sense?

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Iles de Paix_Agro Ecological Transition in Tanzania_Presentation

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Kenya AE Hub Agroecology workshops for farmers

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Kenya AE Hub Agroecology workshops for farmers

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Here we describe the agroecology workshops for farmers that Anchor Hub launched in 2021. Because we intend to continue to offer the workshops regularly over the next several years, we’re asking CCRP ESAf CoP’s  members to give feedback and suggest improvements. We also especially request your suggestions for specific activities on teaching principles of research.

We also welcome projects who want their farmers to gain more exposure to agroecology to get in touch with David Mwangi, the Centre Director (dkmwangi002@gmail.com). The full board and training costs per farmer per day are extremely competitive.

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Kenya AE Hub- Tephrosia DM Research Result

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Kenya AE Hub- Tephrosia DM Research Result

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Practical tip for people planning to promote Tephrosia or conduct FRN research on it

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2021 research on bokashi and liquid biofertilizers

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Biofertilizer research in support of a developing FRN

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Suitable sites for constructing sand dams to restore degraded lands in West Pokot, Kenya

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Suitable sites for constructing sand dams to restore degraded lands in West Pokot, Kenya

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This map was prepared by the GIS - East Africa Project for the Dry lands FRN Project, which is using sand dams as one of the technologies for rehabilitating sites that have been devastated by gully erosion in northwestern Kenya. The map shows suitable sites for siting sand dams based on Expert criteria/ knowledge, while the superimposed points depict the sites where the Dry lands FRN Project has either built or proposes to build sand dams, the selection criteria of which are provided by the participating farmers. Is there a convergence of farmers (indigenous) and expert knowledge?

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This video was made by our Research Assistant Emmanuel Kweka who worked with farmers in the Kilimanjaro region to give an overview of their work

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FRN botanical video make by project research assistant Emmanuel Kweka

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Quick summary of what we do so you can get in touch if you are interested!

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The perfect match: New improved sorghum variety excites farmers in Eastern Uganda 

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The perfect match: New improved sorghum variety excites farmers in Eastern Uganda 

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This is the website for the soil health tool kit with a download link for the manual.

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Our project provides simplified methods to test soil health for smallholder farmers, research for development, and citizen science.

Toolkit Validation Paper Published!

Doctoral student and team member Blessing Magonziwa has published a validation paper using the soil health tool kit data from Kenya and Peru in the journal Geoderma (Nyamasoka-Magonziwa et al., 2020). Click HERE to download this open access paper from the journal website.

Tests currently described here (more on the way):

Soil quality and ecosystem services underpin smallholder production systems for food forage all over the world. In most smallholder contexts, land size per household has shrunk and farming intensity has increased in recent decades, thus raising concerns about the capacity of soil to keep pace with decreased fallow lengths and increased tillage frequency. Tools like the ones we have adapted here can add to farmers' learning about their soils and motivate a variety of approaches that can maintain and regenerate soils.

We work with various organisations in Eastern , Western and Southern Africa Communities of Practice (CoPs) as well as the the Andean Region CoP funded by The McKnight foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program or CCRP http://ccrp.org/

Using the Soil Tool Kit to analyze for oxidizable carbon in Western Kenya.

Posters with tool kit overview, project activities and recent progress:
English poster Spanish poster (from the McKnight CCRP Andean Community of Practice Meeting, July 2018) (from the McKnight CCRP East Africa Community of Practice Meeting, May 2018)

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Our project provides simplified methods to test soil health for smallholder farmers, research for development, and citizen science. Español FrançAis Learn about the Tests download the manual Learn how the tests are being used Toolkit Validation Paper Published! Doctoral student and team member Blessing Magonziwa has published a validation paper using the soil health tool...

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Soils Cross-Cutting overview poster (from 2020 CoP)

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Soils Cross-Cutting overview poster (from 2020 CoP)

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Overview poster for the Soils Cross-Cutting project, with a few more details. This year you'll see some of our current work within the Soil Health FRN and Botanicals presentations.

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FRN NGO SOIL HEALTH RESULTS DISSEMINATION VIDEO

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FRN -NGO soil health results dissemination Video

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FRN -NGO soil health results dissemination Video

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How the soil health results were delivered to the participating farmers across different Counties.
Film By :Geoffrey Omondi (CREPP)

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Soils Cross-Cutting: Measuring Particulate Organic matter with simple materials.

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Soils Cross-Cutting: Measuring Particulate Organic matter with simple materials.

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New video on particulate organic matter or POM - how to test it as a component of soil health, using simple materials and water to wash out particles of organic matter.

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Particulate Organic Matter with simple materials (nylon stocking sieve)

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How FRN-NGO collaborate with other partners to deliver soil Health Experiments

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PKWI FRN POSTER-Youth Participation in Cassava Community Phyto-sanitation

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PKWI FRN POSTER-Youth Participation in Cassava Community Phyto-sanitation

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Engaging Youth in the development of innovations and technologies is another strategy to promote Agro-ecological Transition.

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FIPS-4Ws  Film on Use of soil method to control FAW

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FIPS-4Ws  Film on Use of soil method to control FAW

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dq6x7Ad6h8&t=51s

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PKWI FRN Youths Participating in Cassava Community Phyto-sanitation.

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PKWI FRN Youths Participating in Cassava Community Phyto-sanitation.

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Engaging the youth in FRN is very Vital because the youth are strong and resourceful in the sense they can easily create awareness on pests and diseases and best control practices to reduce on their incidences and severity

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Legume Integration FRN: Soil Health Amendment Trials

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Legume Integration FRN: Soil Health Amendment Trials

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Re-shaping Agriculture Extension and Research for impact through FRNs

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Re-shaping Agriculture Extension and Research for impact through FRNs

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There is need to influence policy makers to take on AE, attached is a presentation that was made during the 2nd National Actors Agroecology symposium in Uganda.

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The Independent Food Systems Summit Dialogue attracted various actors including government officials, farmers, researchers, input dealers, traders and transporters. The dialogue offered actors the opportunity to discuss pertinent issues regarding agroecology and the role that it could play towards sustainable food systems in Tanzania.

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Methods, approaches of collecting and presenting information that is interesting and exciting to farmers

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Methods, approaches of collecting and presenting information that is interesting and exciting to farmers

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Methods and approaches of getting and presenting interesting data to farmers- cereal FRN

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A synopsis of the Agroecology project implemented by NaFORRI

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A synopsis of the Agroecology project implemented by NaFORRI

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Co-developing AE options for food, energy and Environment nexus in Watersgeds of Eastern Uganda- NaFORRI

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Why understanding farmers' risk perceptions is important

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Why understanding farmers' risk perceptions is important

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This presentation gives a look into farmers' risks in Singida rural district in Tanzania.

The study highlights why it might be important to consider farmers' risk perceptions in the designing, implementation and dissemination of risk management strategies for farmers.

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FRN NGO Soil health Presentation

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Frances Knight, Elaine Ferguson

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The Drylands FRN: Demonstrating AE Transition at farm to Landscape level

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DRYLANDS FRN CoP Story in details on AE Transition, 5th Sept 2021

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Use of Smart projectors in enhancing farmer's learning amidst Covid-19 Pandemic

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Use of Smart projectors in enhancing farmer's learning amidst Covid-19 Pandemic

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With Funding from McKnight Foundation, The CCRP projects in Uganda procured Smart Projectors to enhance reach and farmers learning and training. The innovation has significantly influenced farmers attitude towards knowledge sharing and managing community spread of Covid-19.

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Smart Projects for Enhanced Farmer Learning

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Seed system Project of the McKnight Foundation in Malawi discussing with farmers in the field of Finger millet at Manjawira EPA

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Seed system Project of the McKnight Foundation in Malawi discussing with farmers in the field of Finger millet at Manjawira EPA

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This video highlights some traits that can be used by farmers to identify off-type and diseased plants during finger millet (Eleusine coracana) seed multiplication and ways of maintaining seed purity.

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Wezi Mhango: Agro-ecological intensification through integration of doubled up legumes in maize based systems  

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Wezi Mhango: Agro-ecological intensification through integration of doubled up legumes in maize based systems  

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The presentation highlights some key findings on Agro-ecological intensification through integration of doubled up legumes in maize based systems. These are from long time on farm research by the Legume Best Bets Project in Malawi

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Mhango- Best Bets project  ppt -   Oct. 5th  2021 CoP conference

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Wongani Mbale- Seed systems on - farm evaluation of Bambara nut and Finger millet varieties in Malawi

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Wongani Mbale- Seed systems on - farm evaluation of Bambara nut and Finger millet varieties in Malawi

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The presentation highlights some preliminary key findings of the on-farm research that were conducted in 4 districts of the McKnight Foundation Seed Systems Projects sites.