Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA)
Through participatory research and development with farmers, extension agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, and agribusinesses along the value chain, the program aims to improve maize and legume productivity by 30% and to reduce the expected downside yield risk by 30% on approxima...
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2013
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| author | Gonsalves, Julian Francis |
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| description | Through participatory research and development with farmers, extension agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, and agribusinesses along the value chain, the program aims to improve maize and legume productivity by 30% and to reduce the expected downside yield risk by 30% on approximately 500,000 farms within ten years. The focal countries of program research are Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Australia.
Australia could benefit from the drought tolerant and disease resistant maize germplasm developed by CIMMYT for Africa. Africa could, in turn, benefit from advanced GxE analysis techniques applied by Australian breeders that could also initiate more systematic germplasm exchange between CIMMYT and Australia. |
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| spelling | CGSpace361362024-01-17T12:58:34Z Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) Gonsalves, Julian Francis participatory approaches research agriculture maize legumes Through participatory research and development with farmers, extension agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, and agribusinesses along the value chain, the program aims to improve maize and legume productivity by 30% and to reduce the expected downside yield risk by 30% on approximately 500,000 farms within ten years. The focal countries of program research are Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Australia. Australia could benefit from the drought tolerant and disease resistant maize germplasm developed by CIMMYT for Africa. Africa could, in turn, benefit from advanced GxE analysis techniques applied by Australian breeders that could also initiate more systematic germplasm exchange between CIMMYT and Australia. 2013 2014-06-11T15:39:06Z 2014-06-11T15:39:06Z Case Study https://hdl.handle.net/10568/36136 en http://simlesa.cimmyt.org/ Open Access CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security |
| spellingShingle | participatory approaches research agriculture maize legumes Gonsalves, Julian Francis Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) |
| title | Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) |
| title_full | Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) |
| title_short | Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) |
| title_sort | sustainable intensification of maize legume systems for food security in eastern and southern africa simlesa |
| topic | participatory approaches research agriculture maize legumes |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/36136 |
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