NARO and ULUND are organizing the UPSCALE model validation workshop due to take place on 22nd July 2024 at Nile Village Hotel in Jinja. The team is developing a model on the interaction of factors surrounding the push-pull ecosystem. To… Continue Reading…

On July 7 -9, 2024, the Fourth National MAC Meeting will be held in Kigali, Rwanda. The meeting will be organized by Food for the Hungry and Maseno University, and it is intended to increase awareness and, therefore, encourage stakeholders’ commitment to the implementation and implementation of push-pull technology (PPT).

This will be an opportunity to gather crucial stakeholders and represent current results of the project.

Ethiopia (ISD) will have its 2nd National UPSCALE MAC Meeting on 3rd – 4th JUNE 2022 in Bishoftu Lisak-Resort, Ethiopia.

Multiactor communitites of practicePush-Pull in practice

How multi actor communities of practice enhance and support the spread of push-pull technology among smallholder farmers in East Africa During a meeting in Rwanda, organized by Food for the Hungry (FH) Association Rwanda and Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources... Continue Reading…

Farming practicePush-Pull in practice

As part of the EU-funded UPSCALE project, the Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute (TARI) held another one-day MAC meeting. The meeting was held on 21st May 2021 at the Africa Inland Church Tanzania (AICT) - Agroforestry training center, Musoma District, Mara... Continue Reading…

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Striga or 'witchweeds' are parasitic weeds that affect cereal crops in many parts of Africa, reducing production from 30 to 100%, or complete loss of the crop. If maize plants are attacked by both stemborers and striga weed, the yield... Continue Reading…

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@lunduniversity released a publication in which they reviewed how changes in temperature, precipitation and atmospheric CO2 concentration can influence PPT components.💡

🔗https://upscale-hub.eu/publications/climate-change-and-ecological-intensification-of-agriculture-in-sub-saharan-africa-a-systems-approach-to-predict-maize-yield-under-push-pull-technology/

#agriculture #pushpulltechnology #UPSCALE #EU #farmers

🌿 How can bioactive volatiles be harnessed to protect crops from the destructive Fall Armyworm, and what does this mean for sustainable agriculture?

📖 Discover at https://upscale-hub.eu/bioactive-volatiles-natural-allies-in-the-battle-against-fall-armyworm/

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