Abigael Mchana
How comics, pop music and drama deliver down-to-earth messages to help African farmers improve their soil
5 December is World Soil Day. Soil is a life source for healthy ecosystems, healthy food and, ultimately, healthy humans. With a growing population, the soil that’s cultivated will have to feed many more people, but it will only be able to do this if soil fertility is managed. This year’s World Soil Day theme […]
Read MoreCommunicating knowledge to make lasting change and improve livelihoods
CABI’s unique expertise and global presence around the world allows us to communicate the agricultural knowledge that smallholders need to make lasting change and improve their livelihoods The challenge Knowledge and information can help address global challenges like hunger and poverty, but a disconnect often exists between the solutions to global problems and the millions […]
Read MoreFertilizer Optimization Tools to increase farmers’ yields highlighted at CODATA 2019 Conference
CABI has highlighted the benefits of digital agriculture, through the range of Fertilizer Optimization Tools, at the CODATA 2019 Conference in Beijing, China, including how the Fertilizer Optimizer app in Uganda increased some farmers yields seven-fold. Henry Mibei and Lucy Karanja from CABI’s Kenya office in Nairobi, told delegates that the agricultural sector is facing […]
Read MoreHow data visualization helps to plan and evaluate the campaign approach
For more than two-thousand years, maps have been used to try to help us make understand the world. As we tried to make sense of the range of campaign activities that made up the Scaling Improved Legumes Technologies (SILT) project in Tanzania, our project partners at Farm Radio (FRI) suggested we produce a map. These […]
Read MoreNigeria soybean campaign reaches 170,000 famers… and shares key lessons on impacts of the uptake of campaign messages
Solomon Duah, from the CABI-ASHC delivery team reflects on the lessons from the soybean campaign he helped to deliver in Nigeria. This is a revised and updated version of the blog published in October 15, 2018. It now reports that the campaign reach target was exceeded by over 40%. There is a growing interest and […]
Read MorePhone app set to transform how low-income farmers in Africa invest in fertilizer
First appeared as a newstory on https://platform.cabi.org/news-and-media/2019/. An upgrade to a mobile phone app now offers farmers across Africa even more benefits and cutting-edge fertilizer use technology. This will help farmers to grow healthier, more productive with increasingly profitable crops, as a result of more informed use of how small amounts of fertilizer impact the […]
Read MoreVillage-based film screenings prove a popular way to reach and inform farming families in Northern Ghana
Duncan Sones, from the CABI GALA communications team, reflects on the first two years of the soybean campaign in Northern Ghana. In the last two years, there have been 346 village-based film screenings of films made by CABI to show farmers how to grow soybean. Take into account the use of Facebook for a music-based […]
Read MoreCABI and IFDC join forces to get soybean film out to farmers in Northern Ghana
Woman and child at film screening By Duncan Sones Farmers in Northern Ghana are reaping the benefit of village-based film screenings to inform them about agricultural practices. Film screenings are growing in popularity amongst farmers and extension projects, as the technique for sharing information. This is because they are a very inclusive way of sharing […]
Read MoreFertilizer Optimization Tool pays dividends for farmers in Uganda
CABI extension workers meet with farmers in Kidoko to advise on how to maximise the benefits of the Fertilizer Optimization Tool By Dr Monica Kansiime, Scientist Seed Systems, based at CABI in Nairobi, Kenya A decision support tool that allows an extension agent to take into account a number of the farmers’ circumstances and investment goals […]
Read MoreFertilizer Optimization Tool helps return son to teacher training school
FOT pays off for Charles Wafula who is now able to help his son continue teacher training By Monica Kansiime, Scientist Seed Systems, based at CABI in Nairobi, Kenya In a previous blog post I outlined how the Fertilizer Optimization Tool (FOT) is paying dividends for farmers – helping them, in some cases, to report […]
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