Sustainable Agricultural Intensification

Mateete Bekunda (Edited By) Mateete Bekunda holds a PhD in Soil Fertility from the Australian National University. He joined IITA in 2012 as a Chief Scientist to provide scientific leadership to the Africa RISING Program's East and Southern Africa Project which is implemented by a multi-institutional research and development team that develops, recommends and delivers for scaling integrated natural resource, crop and livestock management technologies and tools to address farmers' needs in different intensification gradients in the target regions of Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.Jonathan Odhong (Edited By) Jonathan Odhong is a science communication professional with over 10 years experience in research and development communication across 15 countries. He holds a Master of Arts in Communication Studies from The University of Nairobi in addition to other professional certifications. Jonathan joined IITA in 2014 as a Research Communication Specialist for the two IITA-led Africa RISING regional projects in East and Southern Africa and in West Africa. He is currently the Communications and Knowledge Sharing Coordinator for the Africa RISING Program. Jonathan oversees the preparation and implementation of the communication and knowledge management strategy for the Africa RISING program in all the six sub-Saharan Africa countries where activities are being implemented.Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon (Edited By) Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon studied General Agricultural Sciences at the University of Hohenheim, Germany, from where she obtained in 1984 her PhD from the Faculty of Plant Production and Landscape Ecology. She joined IITA in 2008 as the Coordinator of the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Integrated Pest Management (SP-IPM), a position held until end of 2013 when the Program officially came to an end. Since 2011, she is the Manager of the Africa RISING Program's East and Southern Africa and West Africa Projects which are inplemented in multiple countries by a consortium of national and international research and development organizations.

• 1: Weaving gender into sustainable intensification interventions 2: New high-yielding, stress-resilient, and nutritious crop varieties 3: Cereal–legume cropping systems for enhanced productivity, food security, and resilience 4: Management of soil fertility through application of fertilizers 5: Soil and water conservation for climate-resilient agriculture 6: Land management through conservation agriculture and associated practices 7: Improved technologies for reducing post-harvest losses 8: Improved feeding for dairy cattle and poultry in smallholder crop–livestock systems 9: Improved household nutrition through home-grown produce and consumption of nutritious and healthy products 10: Combining multiple technologies: Integrated soil fertility management 11: Taking technologies to a greater scale