Gendered barriers and opportunities for scaling integrated pest management practices along the mango value chain in Kenya academic.oup.com/jipm/article/1…

#pause&reflect is key! making time for strategy 2030 implementation #sustainableagrifoodsystems in Africa @cimmyt inspiring to see emerging research leaders spread their wings. The challenges are great, taking it to the farmer through #openscience #solidarity PPP a must

Spent last week touring Eastern Province under #SIFAZ and #UU. The effects of the El nino drought are many. Resurgence of diseases like g/nut rosette virus disease, and striga weed.

Training of enumerators for data collection to assess demand for stress-tolerant crop varieties and change in cropping patterns in #Tanzania #AIDI

Tomorrow I will be speaking at a side event to demonstrate how digital advisory tools are a perfect fit to deliver soil health restoration and better fertilizer use efficiency information at the African Union Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit #AFSHS2024

The 9th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture has come to an end in Cape Town. Among the resolutions is appropriate mechanisation to reduce drudgery and increase productivity of these sustainable farming systems.

How do farmers learn from different sources of extension advice? Does trust in the source affect the learning? Facilitators training underway..

Here we go! The socioeconomics team ⁦CIMMYT⁩ Southern Africa kicks off the capacity building series with ⁦Kelvin Mulungu⁩ presenting on lit rev using Zotero and AI. More coming, watch the space!

Our paper examining how shocks affect the type of technologies adopted in agriculture is recently published in Food Policy . We find interesting results and provide policy-relevant heterogeneity analysis. Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.food…

It was great to meet with my friend ⁦Bassirou Diomaye Faye⁩ President of Senegal. I was touched by your kind words: “the impressive results of the African Development Bank under your presidency cannot fully express the incredible impact of your outstanding leadership for Africa”.🙏🏽❤️

Just published! We show that phone ownership is associated with improved maize yields, and that one channel, though small, is by improving access to extension. The effect is much higher for male farmers. doi.org/10.1017/aae.20…