Location-specific and season-smart fertilizer recommendations for smallholder farmers are a prominent feature of innovative decision support tools (DSTs) currently being developed in the ICT4Ag space. In Ethiopia, a coalition of the CGIAR Excellence in Agronomy Initiative (EiA), GIZ-Ethiopia of…
Tunde Ajayi
The Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative in the Great Lakes Region (AID-I GLR) was launched in Burundi as Kugwiza Project. Kugwiza means “to increase” in the local Kirundi language. IITA–CGIAR, the Government of Burundi, and the project donor Feed The…
It has only been six months since the USAID-funded project—Great Lakes Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative Rapid Delivery Hub (AID-I GLR)—settled in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda. AID-I GLR aims to reach 1,200,000 smallholder farmers at the…
Harnessing scaling partnerships in the Great Lakes region for large-scale impact
The USAID-funded “Great Lakes Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative Rapid Delivery Hub” (AID-I GLR) harnesses the partnership with innovations development actors, the private sector, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations to deliver agricultural and nutritional practices and technologies to hundred thousand…
How digital tools help tackle the most ravaging banana disease in Rwanda
Patrice Muhimbabwenge no longer has to uproot his entire banana plantation to address the threat posed by Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW), the most notorious banana disease in Rwanda. This is a major shift from his usual practice prior to…
European Union delegation visits on-farm and on-station field experiments in Malawi under the DeSIRA project
The EU-DeSIRA Malawi team comprising Program Manager Marco Vacirca and Finance Manager Chapresto Cortes Maria visited on-farm trials at Mulanje and Salima and on-station at Chitala Research Station from 6 to 9 March. The CGIAR centers showcasing their trials…
The CGIAR Centres in Cameroon reiterate their commitment to a sustainable partnership with the Government of Cameroon. After several decades in Cameroon, and despite their significant contribution to agricultural research and development in Cameroon, the CGIAR Centres and their…
CGIAR Centers come together to showcase their contribution to Rwanda’s agriculture sector
From 6-14 July 2022, CGIAR Centers in Rwanda, including the International Potato Center (CIP), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), , and the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (The Alliance)…