Duncan Sones
2,450 Extension agents learn fertilizer optimisation
20 May 2017 OFRA: More extension workers can now use the fertilizer optimization approach to advise farmers on more efficient and profitable use of fertilizer in sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the awareness raising and capacity building initiatives of the CABI-led Optimizing Fertilizer Recommendations in Africa (OFRA) project. Dr Kayuki Kaizzi of the National […]
Read MoreChristine Alokit: Bananas, veg & a fertilizer film
27 April 2017: Christine Alokit is the face of ASHC in Uganda, as a part of her responsibilities for CABI in the country. She explains how she has worked with ASHC: Today we are meeting with the Banana Agronomy Project in Kampala, Uganda. The project is exploring ways of improving scalable banana agronomy for small-scale farmers in highland banana cropping systems […]
Read MoreBanana agronomy in Uganda
The ASHC team is delighted to be invited to the launch of the Banana Agronomy Project in Kampala, Uganda on 27 April 2017. The project is exploring ways of improving scalable banana agronomy for small-scale farmers in highland banana cropping systems in East Africa. The meeting will: Review the project objective and the work streams […]
Read MoreSoybean training days at Tanzania demo plots
21 April: SILT partner David Kijazi, from the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership, writes: The team at the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership has organized a new round of farmers’ field days at the soybean demonstration sites in Southern Tanzania. We will be carrying out 8 training days at the end of April/ beginning of May. Last year we attracted 1,133 people at the 15 […]
Read MoreGhana: Fertilizer guidance draws in private sector
20 April Harrison Rware, from the OFRA implementation team, writes: A research brief published by OFRA partners in Ghana, the Soil Research Institute (CSIR-SRI), recommends a new approach to fertilizer production and distribution. The brief specifically targets the private sector and recommends that fertilizer producing companies work closely with CSIR-SRI in the development and validation of fertilizer blends, with […]
Read MoreMartin Macharia talks soil, data, blends and apps
12 April 2017: The Optimizing Fertilizer Recommendations in Africa (OFRA) project has had a busy few months. We have just published our book Fertilizer Use Optimization in sub-Saharan Africa. So far over 60 copies have been downloaded from the website and a further 750 copies printed. This will mean that all our partners will have hard copies of the publication to help […]
Read MoreFilm distribution for ‘all the farming family’
12 April 2017: When ASHC delivers training in media production we stress – do not commission anything until you have your distribution process worked out! In Northern Ghana we have taken this very much to heart. We have partnered with Countrywise Ghana to produce and distribute a film on soybean farming. Countrywise is our partner because they too […]
Read MoreHow do soybean farmers get information?
11 April 2017:At the end of March the GALA team travelled to Tamale in Northern Ghana to help deliver training on data collection to 10 enumerators. As a result, next week the GALA project starts conducting intra-household surveys at 300 farms in five districts in the Northern region of Ghana. The intra-household survey interviews up […]
Read MoreUPTAKE: Stephanie on scale-up & climate change
Stephanie Gakuo project manages the UPTAKE project developing ICT solutions support maize, potato and cassava farmers in Tanzania, she explains how the project is developing… We recently announced that UPTAKE will be sending over 1 million SMS’s to 41,000 maize farmers in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. But this is only part of the story of how we are […]
Read MoreIntra-household survey – Tanzania
4 April 2017: Silvia Silvestri, GALA project manager, writes: Over the past few months the GALA delivery team has been trying to understand how households in Tanzania obtained and share information on farming practices. This will help us to understand the effectiveness of different communication approaches in delivering agricultural information to small-scale farmers. It will also help us to reflect on which currently change […]
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