Researchers from the African countries Uganda and Ethiopia visited units that demonstrate an alternative integrated food production system nicknamed Sisteminha Embrapa (Embrapa's Little System) in the Brazilian states of Piauí and Maranhão, in the period from February 19 to February 24. They are team members of the project "Poverty alleviation and food security in Africa through the implementation of small-scale technologies in integrated crop-livestock systems". The professors Charles Mutumba, from the National Agricultural Research Organisation (Uganda) and Yisehak Redda, from Mekelle University (Ethiopia), came to Brazil to participate in the M-BoSs Annual Forum 2017, held in Brasilia, DF, Brazil, on February 13-17. The event gathered African and Brazilian representatives from each project and the main researchers from each team. According to the Embrapa Mid-North researcher Geraldo Magela Côrtes Carvalho, the African researchers took the opportunity of their visit to Brazil to conduct their first project activity, that is, learn about the Sisteminha in operation. First, the group went to a Sisteminha unit set up in the outskirts of Brasília, in an institution for chemical dependents. In Piauí, the group visited the Fish Fry Production and Reproduction Center, in Parnaíba; a family unit in Esperantina, and another one in the Coastal Tablelands Irrigation District (Distrito de Irrigação dos Tabuleiros Litorâneos - Ditalpi). In Maranhão, the researchers visited a unit that is set up in a Family Farming School. “They visited Sisteminha units with the most diverse animal and plant compositions, and family and institutional units. It was important to show the many possibilities for the system's operation”, Magela explains. Charles Mutumba stressed the importance of the visit. “I am very enthusiastic about the whole project. I am certain that we are going to reach the targets and perform excellent work”, he reports in a message sent to Magela. Besides Magela, at Embrapa Mid-North the researchers Carlos César Nogueira, Adriana Araújo, Janaína Kimpara, Oscar Lustosa, Luiz Carlos Guilherme and the analyst Marcos Jacob de Oliveira Almeida are also taking part in the project. About M-BoSs - It is an international initiative supported by several partners, especially the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Kingdom Department of International Development (DFID), and the Forum for Agriculture Research in Africa (FARA), which is designed to strengthen and deepen cooperation between African and Brazilian institutions, strengthening our international presence in that continent through research projects with a focus on development. M-BoSs was born out of the expectation that the good results obtained in the projects funded via the Agricultural Innovation Marketplace (MKTPlace) could be adjusted, adapted and disseminated on a large scale, creating means to expand the impact of agricultural innovation on improvements to farmers' quality of life and well-being. Translation: Mariana de Lima Medeiros