Author - GENEVIEVE APIO

Twin challenges: Researchers in Central, Eastern and Southern Africa engage in a climate change and soil health forum to propose actionable recommendations

By Ben Moses Ilakut, Genevieve Apio & Brook Makonnen MOMBASA, KENYA: Understanding the impacts of climate change and climate variability, including interpreting shifting rainfall patterns, rising temperatures, and increased frequencies of extreme weather events like droughts and flooding is critical in designing climate-smart agriculture practices and technologies, informing decision-making and adaptation...

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AICCRA and ICPAC strengthen the capacities of Agricultural experts from ASARECA and CCARDESA member states

By Genevieve Apio, Bridget Kakuwa-Kasongamulilo, and Brook Makonnen Gaborone, Botswana – African institutions CCARDESSA (https://www.ccardesa.org/) and ASARECA (https://www.asareca.org/) have been urged to hasten efforts to leverage the capacity of Africa’s experts and institutions such as the IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Center (https://www.icpac.net/) and national initiatives to jointly work to mitigate...

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Training: Climate Information Services for Ag Experts in East and Southern Africa

WHEN SEP 16 - 20, 2024 CAT WHERE Gaborone, Botswana The South-South knowledge exchange and capacity-building initiative organized by regional partners, including the Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA), Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), and IGAD Climate Prediction and Application...

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Regional Training on Climate-Smart Agriculture, Soil Fertility Management, and Soil Health Monitoring in Eastern and Southern Africa

  WHEN SEP 23 - 27, 2024 EAT WHERE Mombasa, Kenya   AICCRA is partnering with CIFOR-ICRAF and regional development and research organizations - Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) -...

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Training on Genetic Resource Policies for Scientists in Agricultural Research Organizations.

Our partner-Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT through the CGIAR Initiative on Genebanks is launching the second edition of the online training course 'Genetic Resources Policies for Agricultural Research Scientists’ starting from September 25 to 30th November, 2024.This course targets plant researchers and legal advisers working in national and international...

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Strengthening capacities of women and youth to adopt technologies and access markets

Youth benefiting from the AIRTEA Project in Rwanda. By Ben Ilakut; Joshua Okonya; Genevieve Apio Despite the existence of private sector-led multi-stakeholder partnerships for public research institutions, academia, policymakers and civil society in bringing about sustainable transformative change in AR4D, the extent of impact on the ground leaves a lot...

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