🚨📷#JustPublished by CIMMYT Cirad ICRISAT Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT & ILRI.org. We applied an innovative method combining statistical typologies & stochastic frontier analysis to mixed #crop-#livestock systems in #Zimbabwe to target interventions. #OpenAccess 👉shorturl.at/pTmIx

Validating a novel genetic technology for hybrid #maize seed production under management practices associated with resource-poor farmers in #Zimbabwe Hamadziripi et al. CIMMYT Tatenda Hamadziripi Frédéric Baudron Rachel Voss, PhD Jill Cairns 📖nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp… @Wileyfoodsci

Do co-designed #agroecological #farming practices in the #AgroecologyInitiative hold their promise of stable agronomic performance? The #agronomy assessment under way at Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT with IITA Cirad CIFOR-ICRAF in #Kenya with CSHEP_KENYA and DRYLANDS NATURAL RESOURCES CENTRE(DNRC) gives answers.

🚨📢#Published by CIMMYT Rwanda Agriculture & Animal Resources Devpt Board & Cirad earlier this year, but now with a #DOI Despite the prevalence of #acidsoils in #Rwanda, lime application by smallholders on staple crops (#maize & #bean) is not profitable without #subsidies. 👉tinyurl.com/mry7bye7

Amazing that the government of #Ethiopia will now be using analytics developed by the project to guide investments in #acidsoil remediation nationally! Proud to have led this project when it started & to now witness such an impact. Congratulations to the team!

The GAIA conducted an in-depth investigation into the the processes and interactions in acid soil, developed a workflow and an essential policy tool integrated into the Ethiopian National Soil Information System (NSIS). Sieg Snapp CIMMYT João Vasco Silva Frédéric Baudron Jordan Chamberlin Rahel

Aujourd'hui à #Brazzaville #Congo: formation d'élèves de Master 1 & 2 de Univ. Marien Ngouabi à KoboToolbox, dans le cas du Programme d'Utilisation Durable des Terres financé par CAFI🌳 & Agence Française de #Développement (AFD) 🇫🇷 🇪🇺. Cirad @AidaDirecteur

#NowReading Inadequacy of nutrients in children’s diets across seasons along an agricultural intensification gradient in Ethiopia 📝 By Tibebu Moges, Frédéric Baudron, Hanqi Luo, Inge D. Brouwer, Roseline Remans, and Jeroen C. J. Groot. 🖱️ doi.org/10.1007/s12571… CGIAR IFPRI_Africa

📢📢 HOTP: (1) What drives mechanization use among smallholders? (2) How do the effects of mechanization use vary across farm categories? We address these in a new paper in Food Policy w Frédéric Baudron & João Vasco Silva sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨📷#JustPublished by CIMMYT UofZimbabwe & Cirad in Food Policy. We applied a quantile regression framework to understand what drives #mechanization by smallholders in #Zimbabwe and how it affects different #farm types. 👉shorturl.at/OCfne

Can mechanisation transform rural livelihoods? Research through an #ACIAR-funded project in 🇿🇼 reveals that equitable mechanisation translate to: 📈 income 📈 land/labour ratios 📈 market access ✅post-harvest and irrigation equipment use More: bit.ly/4heGv1x #SDG17

A pleasure to be back in #Rwanda, to quickstart new research activities on #cassava-#legume #intercropping. Including three days well spent in the field visiting One Acre Fund Rwanda stations in Kayonza & Karongi, & CANALLS Project trials in Kamonyi.

🚨#JustPublished "Farm resilience to climatic risk. A review" in AgronomySustainDev with Cirad and PPS_WUR More comprehensive assessments are needed to measure farm #resilience, especially for #smallholders. For this, we are proposing 6 guidelines #OpenAccess👉doi.org/10.1007/s13593…

Great 2 weeks in #Congo #Brazzaville, supporting the 'Programme d'Utilisation Durable des Terres' funded by CAFI🌳 & Agence Française de #Développement (AFD) 🇫🇷 🇪🇺. Among other things, we collected data to develop an allometric model to estimate #cassava yield non-destructively. Cirad @AidaDirecteur

Intense week spent in #FrenchGuiana visiting #farmers, interviewing them & collecting samples to better understand the #cassava witches' broom #disease, an emerging disease in the region, through a project led by Cirad & funded by Ministère Agriculture et Souveraineté alimentaire.

🚨📢 #JustPublished by Cirad UofZimbabwe et al. Our study led by Illiana Kwenda reveals that the benefits of #maize-cowpea #intercropping are maintained in conditions of high #water & #nitrogen stress in semi-arid #Zimbabwe. 👉shorturl.at/WVdtJ

Earlier this week: training on #yield gap analysis of One Acre Fund Rwanda & Rwanda Agriculture & Animal Resources Devpt Board staff in Karongi #Rwanda. (acknowledging João Vasco Silva who taught me most of what I know on the subject).

🚨📢 #JustPublished by CIMMYT Cirad & UFS. Our study led by Eleanor Mutsamba-Magwaza demonstrates the potential of identifying practices used by positive deviants to improve the performance of #crop-#livestock systems in #Zimbabwe. 👉 tinyurl.com/378w5k99

De retour d'une fantastique semaine au #Cameroun. Au programme: visite de terrain à Ntui, soutien aux #étudiants en stage et formation #rstats. Merci à Mahot hermine claudine et son équipe de l' IRAD Cameroun & à Amelie d'Anfray & les collègues du bureau régional du @CIRAD pour l'accueil.