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Presentation shares R&D efforts on rice under APPSA.

Presentation shares the R&D efforts on maize under APPSA.

Presentation describes the potential role of knowlesge management and communication in R&D projects.

Presentation describes the potential contribution of crop improvement in agricultural productivity.

Presentation discusses potential taglines for CCARDESA.

Newpaper article on APPSA, Malawi. Release of Pro-Vitamin A, Maize varieties.

The presentation highlights the new project  funded by GIZ-ACCRA- SADC Climate Risk Analysis and Climate Resilient Development Pathways

The presentation highlights the CCARDESA Climate Proofing Workshop Habu Update by Herding for Health 

The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative aims to create awareness about the costs of land degradation and the benefits of sustainable land management (SLM).

ELD Campus provides high-level training and capacity improvement for policymakers, scientists and academics who want to contribute to the prevention of land degradation across the world. It is available in French and English.

There are 9 thematic modules that cover the following topics:

1. The ELD Initiative
2. Problem dimension – Land degradation vs. sustainable land management
3. Natural capital and ecosystem services valuation – the rationale behind
4. Steps of an ELD study
5. Communication, outreach and policy impact
6. Identification and selection of ecosystem services
7. Evaluation of ecosystem services
8. Cost-benefit analysis

Besides lectures, scripts and exercises, there are also quizzes to test your knowledge afterwards. Moreover the modules include helpful links and further reading materials.

Conservation Agriculture (CA) is currently widely recognized as a viable approach for sustainable agriculture due to its potentially comprehensive benefits of economic, environmental, and social sustainability. In response to the aforesaid, Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute (TARI) at Uyole Centre initiated intensive research on CA  technology practices since 1999. The research started on-station and widened the geographical coverage of CA trials and promotions on-farm from two to 18 villages (Mkomwa et al., 2007) in Southern highlands of Tanzania. An onstation study was undertaken to evaluate influence of CA planting methods on labour, weed and maize yields. The study results show that use of tractor ripper, ox-direct seeder and ox-ripper had high yields of 8.5, 8.5 and 7.6 t/ha respectively compared to hand hoe (4.7 t/ha).