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3 August 2011
RIU Zambia's works on exit strategy for Conservation Agriculture programme with contractors and agro dealers
RIU Zambia was funded from 2006-2011. Recently the RIU Zambia team has been working on an exit strategy for it groundbreaking Conservation Agriculture programme.

26 July 2011
Final report from work to strengthen African parliamentary approaches to agriculture
The final report of the RIU-backed pilot programme on strengthening African parliamentary approaches to agriculture is now complete and RIUtv recently met with Tony Worthington, who heads up the project, to hear about the progress.

25 July 2011
RIU Zambia offers a model for 'harmonized' extension service
The Zambia Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MACO) through the Department of Agriculture is currently looking at ways of improving delivery of extension services to small-scale farmers.

28 June 2011
Farm mechanisation toolkit published by RIU Tanzania
RIU Tanzania has published a toolkit based on their experiences and successes with the Mechanisation Innovation Platform activities in Morogoro region.

2 June 2011
Mapping exercise shows extent of RIU links to African universities...
As a result of a mapping exercise carried out at the recent RIU team meeting an interesting and extensive web of links between RIU and universities has emerged. In Africa 17 universities were identified as working in some significant way with RIU funded programmes, with some 24 practical links to RIU initiatives.

2 June 2011
RIU projects at international conferences: Shujaaz at World Bank and RIU Tanzania at research donors' forum in Indonesia
Rob Burnet, head of the DFID RIU-funded Shujaaz initiative, is to be a speaker at an important World Bank conference on 20 June 2011.


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