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Children and chickens – a path to better nutrition in Africa
Wednesday, 4 June 2014
ACIAR Graduate Research Officer Emma Zalcman recently traveled to Africa for meetings with village elders and researchers involved in an ACIAR project to improve childhood nutrition though poultry. Read more about her trip.
Female-headed households
Tuesday, 3 June 2014
Female-headed households (FHHs) are more vulnerable to food insecurity than male-headed households (MHHs) in rural Kenya, a new study shows.

“If female-headed households intercrop maize and legumes, food security could increase because it improves soil fertility and withstands market risks as one can benefit from one crop if the other fails.”

Menale Kassie, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
CIMMYT informa - Featuring an article on our Adoption Pathways project
Friday, 9 May 2014
CIMMYT, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre has released its latest newsletter which features an article on our Adoption Pathways project. Read this article on page 4 of the newsletter below.
Value chain training picks up the pace in vegetable hubs
Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Read a recent article published on the AVRDC website about value chain training in our Peri-urban agriculture project.
CCARDESA database of experts: Call extended to 30 April 2014
Monday, 28 April 2014
The Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA) would like to develop a database of experts in the region to serve internal and external purposes of the organisation.
Decision tools for family popultry development
Thursday, 24 April 2014
Read a recent FAO Animal Production and Health publication by our poultry project leader Robyn Alders from the University of Sydney, Veterinary Science
SIMLESA farmers in Ethiopia are starting to reap the benefits of new technologies!
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
This was the impression created by the five farmers who attended the farmer-researcher Q&A organised by the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research EIAR when all the SIMLESA project-countries congregated at the Ethiopian Melkassa Agricultural Research Centre close to the town of Adama also known as Nazareth.
News from the field - FACASI
Friday, 11 April 2014
The Farm Mechanisation & Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Intensification (FACASI) project marked its first year of activities in Kenya and Tanzania in March 2014. Twelve months ago the project was launched in Arusha Tanzania where quite some time was spent planning and discussing what activities should take place within the first year. The aim of this project, which is active in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, is to identify appropriate small-scale machines (e.g.
AIFSRC March Newsletter
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
The AIFSRC has just released the March Newsletter.
World Water Day
Monday, 24 March 2014
The 22nd of March was the United Nation’s world water day and the AIFSRC marks the day with the rest of the world. We are still a long way to go in providing access to sufficient and safe water to the earth’s population – this is very apparent in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). The day focuses attention on the importance of freshwater and advocates for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

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