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A group of farmers from Tibali community in northern Ghana mix-up livestock feed ingredients. The community is part of Africa RISING intervention activities on development of affordable supplementary feeding options for small ruminants
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Franklin Avornyo (left) and Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon (Photo credit: IITA/Jonathan Odhong’)
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A female farmer in Tibali community, northern Ghana takes her turn in the process of mixing up supplementary livestock feed for small ruminants (Photo credit: IITA/Jonathan Odhong’)
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De-husked maize cobs (Photo credit: IITA/Jonathan Odhong’)
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A pile of nutritious supplementary livestock feed for small ruminants. Africa RISING project is training farmers in northern Ghana on affordable supplementary feeding options for small ruminants especially during the lean season
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Botingla Naa Yakubu, the lead farmer for the Africa RISING project in Tibali Community in northern Ghana (Photo credit: IITA/Jonathan Odhong’)
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Short duration pigeon pea variety trial plot in Tibali Community Technology Park in northern Ghana (Photo credit: IITA/Jonathan Odhong’)
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Memunatu Zakaria, a farmer in Duko Community northern Ghana stirs Shea butter oil which she will later sell to supplement her income. Most women farmers in northern Ghana engage in shea butter oil processing during the farming off-season
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Muniratu Zakaria, a farmer in in Duko Community northern Ghana shows off her shea butter seed and processed shea butter cake. Like most of her fellow women farmers in the northern region of Ghana, she is involved in shea butter processing during the farmi
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Through a partnership with SNV international, Africa RISING is conducting research trials evaluating the best agronomic practices for cereal – sesame cropping systems in northern Ghana. SNV is promoting sesame (Sesamum indicum) in the region as a cash cro
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As part of the cereal-legume-vegetable integration research activities, Africa RISING is evaluating the possibility of integrating roselle as a vegetable in the common cereal-legume intercrop systems in northern Ghana (Photo credit: IITA/Jonathan Odhong’)
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Elias Salifu, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) (Photo credit: IITA/Jonathan Odhong’)
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Groundnut harvest being dried in the sun (Photo credit: IITA/Jonathan Odhong’)
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Model housing for small ruminants (sheep and goats) in northern Ghana. Africa RISING is evaluating options for improved livestock productivity in northern Ghana and housing is one of the factors that mitigate optimum livestock productivity
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When all crops are harvested, pigeon pea still got it! The crop is among the legumes being promoted by Africa RISING in northern Ghana as a relay crop during the transition periods preceding or succeeding the main cropping season
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Sesame (Photo credit: IITA/Jonathan Odhong’)
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Sun-drying of harvest is a common farmer practice in northern Ghana. In this picture a farmer household dries maize and cowpea (on the house roof) (Photo credit: IITA/Jonathan Odhong’)
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John Baanaah, a farmer in Nator-duori Community, northern Ghana shows off his maize harvest. He confesses that using the Aflasafe biocontrol product offered to him through the Africa RISING project greatly enhanced the quality of his maize harvest
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Goats and sheep feed on dried cowpea pods in Duko Community in northern Ghana. As part of its integrated crop-livestock systems research work, Africa RISING is assessing the viability of cowpea residue as dry season feeding option for small ruminants