The training was designed to enhance human capacities for cassava seed inspection and certification as a critical element of building a sustainable formal cassava seed value chain in Rwanda. The primary…
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Central Africa Digital tools
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Eastern Africa
Discovering how Human-Centered Design (HCD) and User Research can help switch perspectives in Ethiopia
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…
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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…
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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…
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Central Africa Eastern Africa
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…
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Digital tools Eastern Africa ICT4BXW
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…
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Southern Africa
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…
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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…