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Isaac wins projector for ISFM consultation
ASHC is consulting on the style, content and layout of its new cropping guide series. The series has been produced for extension and covers ISFM and good agricultural practices for growing: banana-coffee cassava sorghum and millet-legumes, and rice systems During the recent ISFM conference in Rabat, Morocco, ASHC held a competition amongst the attending delegates to get […]
Read MoreFeedback requested on ISFM cropping guides
A cropping guide series is being produced for extension workers by the African Soil Health Consortium (ASHC). The series covers banana-coffee cassava sorghum and millet-legumes, and rice systems The guides support rural extension workers guiding smallholder farmers from traditional cropping systems for subsistence to more market-oriented enterprises through sustainable intensification. The guides aims to provide, […]
Read MoreOFRA reviews and planning meetings scheduled
A meeting of the Optimising Fertilizer Recommendations in Africa (OFRA) partners from southern and east Africa will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 10-14 November. This will be followed a west African gathering in Accra, Ghana, between 25-28 November. OFRA operates in 13 sub-Saharan countries. The West African partners are from Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, […]
Read MoreEnthusiastic responses to new ASHC website
‘The ASHC team has had some great feedback on the new website and, in particular, the ISFM materials library.’ Explains James Watiti, ASHC project manager. ‘This is exactly the sort of feedback we had hoped to get from our peers and it has energised us to make more and more materials available.’ ASHC launched its new […]
Read MoreMeet the ASHC team in Morocco
2-7 November 2014, Ecole Normale Supérieure –Rabat, Morocco at Soil Biofertilization and Sustainable Development in Africa Come and find out about our latest publications, see the new website, talk about your plans for the future and how the Africa Soil Health Consortium can help you. ASHC will also be sharing, and consulting on, the ISFM […]
Read MoreASHC gets green light to develop phase 2
The Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded bridging funding to support the development of a second phase of ASHC. James Watiti from ASHC explains: “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invited CABI to develop a second phase of ASHC. To enable this to happen ASHC has […]
Read MoreOctober 2014: ASHC newsletter
The ASHC October newsletter has been published. This 20 page magazine reports on the following news stories: Case notes: father and daughter bond through an ISFM story in a comic Funding update Africa Green Revolution Forum 2014 ASHC pilots capacity building in Malawi to forward pro-ISFM policy Congratulations Andre Plans developed to reach over 1 […]
Read MoreASHC new website launched
George Oduor, who leads the team at ASHC, answers questions about the new ASHC website Why was a new website needed? ASHC has changed since it was launched in 2011. In 2013 ASHC took on the management of a major AGRA-funded development program looking at optimizing fertilizer recommendations in 13 sub-Saharan countries. We are also […]
Read MoreNew crop of ISFM guides drafted
“ASHC is pleased to announce the completion of the first drafts of four ISFM cropping guides,” explains Lydia Wairegi, ASHC systems agronomist. “These guides are an important contribution to the ISFM literature. The starting point for each was to find the leading thinkers and researchers in ISFM for specific crops and to consolidate every […]
Read MoreOFRA progress report
Optimising Fertilizer Recommendations in Africa (OFRA) is an integral part of the ASHC that seeks to change the way that fertilizer recommendations are produced and promoted to smallholder farmers in Africa. Using fertilizer response data generated by partners in 13 sub-Saharan countries, new recommendations will be developed that place profitability, and not maximisation of production, […]
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