AMAREW
Amarew - Amharic for "aspire"

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 KASA Impacts - Knowledge, Attitudes, Skills, Aspirations

KASA impacts result from AMAREW activities that disseminate Knowledge about technologies and practices; promote positive Attitudes about the technologies and practices; provide the new Skills needed for adoption; and modify Aspirations so that adoption may occur. KASA impacts are illustrated through:

FREGs
Technologies Disseminated by the Project
Long-Term Degree Training
The Erosion Remediation Demonstration

FREGs
Farmer-Researcher-Extension Groups (FREGs) are a methodological innovation the project is supporting to improve researcher-extension linkages to local farmers and move research findings and quality improved seed out rapidly in intervention areas.
FREGs are one of the modalities AMAREW uses to generate KASA impacts.


 

 

 

 

 

 


KASA impacts through specific Technologies Disseminated by the Project

  • Improved varieties of cereal and pulse crops
  • Vegetable and root crops
  • Fruit tree seeds/seedlings
  • Forage species
  • Poultry breeds and associated technologies
  • Bee keeping technology
  • Improved breeds of small ruminants
  • Natural resource management and environmental protection technologies
  • Farm tools and implements

KASA impacts through Long-Term Degree Training
The numbers next to each category represent the number of students who either received training in that area or were from that organization.

  • BS Degree Training: 23
  • Partners

- Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute (ARARI) - 5
- Bureau of Agriculture & Rural Development (BoARD) - 16
- Environment Protection, Land Administration, and Use Authority (EPLAUA) - 2

  • Fields of Study:

- Animal and Range Science - 5
- Natural Resource Management - 5
- Dryland Agriculture - 3
- Land Resources and Environmental Protection - 5
- Rural Development - 2
- Engineering - 3

  • MS Degree Training: 10
  • Partners
  • ARARI - 5
  • BoARD - 5
  • Fields of Study

- Agronomy/Breeding - 3
- Ag Extension - 1
- Ag Economics - 2
- Ag Engineering - 2
- Animal Science - 1
- Other - 1

The Erosion Remediation Demonstration: KASA impacts through demonstrations
 


These photos show the gully erosion problem and the results one can achieve by implementing natural regeneration guided by community-based management: farmers use a gabion as a frame to put stones into; eroding soil is then trapped by the barrier, and the soil caught by these barriers then sprouts vegetation.

 


 

Supported by the United States Agency for International Development
Cooperative Agreement No. 663-C-00-02-00340-00
Office of International Research, Education and Development
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University