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Material matters is a bi-monthly feature which reviews materials that can be freely downloaded from the ASHC website. This month we are reviewing the cassava resources you might find useful. We are also featuring some poster formats to coincide with the recent publication of the Media Guide: Making farmer-friendly posters and the template to help you make your […]

25 october 2016: CABI is exploring how regular SMS messages of agronomic information impact on the attitudes and behaviour of farmers.  The latest crops to be included in campaigns are cassava and maize. These campaigns have resulted in over 100,000 SMS messages being sent to farmers in Tanzania as part of the UPTAKE project. Stephanie Gakuo, […]

The core problem that the African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) will address is the yield-gap. In sub-Saharan Africa average cassava productivity currently stands at 10-15 tons per hectare, and with pest and disease challenges can fall as low as 3 tons per hectare.  This is well below the potential for cassava productivity of 25-35 tons per […]

This media guide to developing a multiple-media campaign… is designed to offer support to anyone trying to get information to farmers – especially relating to a new or improved agricultural technology. Please note that this page has a series of Media links – these will give you access to material that we believe could be useful as […]

What is the GALA project about? The Gender and the Legume Alliance: Integrating multi-media communication approaches and input brokerage, or so called GALA project, is a project designed to support small-scale farming households to achieve sustainable legume intensification, by improving access to information and knowledge on farming techniques. The project started in June 2016 and will […]