Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing
SLP projects are presently conducting household surveys in 9 different countries. To gather and/or enter those data we are exploring the use of CAPI (computer assisted personal interviewing) to replace...
View ArticleBiomass production, chronosequence and vegetation indexes: Outputs of...
SLP has been strengthening links with different academic institutions. The result of these links has been a small set of internships, BSc or MSc thesis with various universities. Research topics are...
View ArticleSLP participation in the 5th World Congress of Conservation Agriculture...
SLP was part of the 5th WCCA & 3rd FSD held in Brisbane, Australia last week. Diego Valbuena (SLP Postdoc Scientist) gave an overview on the crop residue use in different mixed crop-livestock...
View ArticleIntensification of crop-livestock farming systems in East Africa: A...
SLP East Africa team continues presenting preliminary results of the project on crop residue trade-offs. This time Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI-Ethiopia) will present a poster at the CIALCA International...
View ArticleDiagnosis to action: SLP turning data on crop residue use into fuel for change
Last week, the crop residue trade-offs project team met in Addis Ababa to take stock of the data collected across all four regions (South Asia, Southern Africa, West Africa and East Africa). The idea...
View ArticleFirst publication of the CGIAR SLP crop residue project
The first peer-reviewed publication of the Systemwide Livestock Programme (SLP) crop residue project is now on-line in Field Crops Research. This paper describes the options and challenges of...
View ArticleTrade-offs of crop residue use in Kenya: Conservation Agriculture
Researchers at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) analysed potential trade-offs in maize residue use as soil mulch and livestock feed in mixed crop-livestock systems in...
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