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UPTAKE: 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 […]
Read MoreGender & approaches: Indicative information
21 March 2017 Dannie Romney, ASHC project executive shares her thoughts on gender research undertaken with the support of Legume Alliance partners in Tanzania and currently informing the UPTAKE project: During 2015 CABI commissioned iLogix to pilot an input brokerage system using beans in Tanzania as the target. The idea was that information on inputs could be […]
Read MoreASA in Tanzania: Seeds of success
20 March 2017: Charles Levi of the Agricultural Seed Agency in Tanzania spells out the progress to make improved legume seed more readily available to farmers… Legumes are a staple part of the Tanzanian diet – and almost everyone with a piece of land will grow them. So, you might expect that legume seed sales would be an important […]
Read MoreTanzania: Fertilizer hope for soybean farmers
15 March 2017: Daniel Lungo is a small-scale farmer who grows soybean in Utiga, a village in Njombe Region, in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, where the weather is cold and the soil is sandy. Mr Lungo, a father of five, has been growing soya beans on his half-acre farm for the past three years. For him, 2016 was […]
Read MoreThe right wave length: 70,000 radio interactions in Tanzania
28 February 2017: Japhet Emmanuel reviews the progress of Farm Radio International and its partners in disseminating messages to farmers in Tanzania: The common bean and soybean radio campaigns are now in full swing. So far, nearly 90 radio programs have been broadcast, each with a weekly repeat. We have clocked up over 67,750 interactions […]
Read MoreSILT demo plots help close the yield gap
David Kijazi of AFAP writes: 26 February 2017: Last growing season our focus was common bean – this season our emphasis has moved to soybean. 16 scale-up demonstration plots have been planted with soybean this season. Each plot is one acre. The inputs being demonstrated are seed varieties Uyole 1 and 2 with DAP fertilizer and the […]
Read MoreMaximising partnerships to scale-up legume technologies in Tanzania
23 February 2017: James Watiti reflects on the progress to date of the CABI members of the SILT project team The great thing about the SILT project is that we have a partnership that means we can do much more than we could achieve individually. At the heart of the project is a series of scale-up campaigns to […]
Read MoreUpdate from the SILT MSc students in Tanzania
20 February 2017: Masso, Cargele, from IITA, updates us on the MSc research work happening in Tanzania: It good to report that all of the SILT (Scaling-up Improved Legume Technologies) students are making strong progress with their research. I have reported before that four female candidates were among the top five best applicants This was […]
Read MoreWhat agro-dealers think – a survey from Northern Ghana
12 February 2017:GALA partner Green Ef has recently carried out surveys into the range of products being stocked by agro-dealers in Northern Ghana. They also recorded the comments made by the agro-dealers. These comments give us a useful insight into the opportunities and challenges perceived by the agro-dealers. We asked Green Ef to share the comments they collected in the […]
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