Duncan Sones
Soybean and the gender agenda…
7 February 2017: The ASHC team writes: We recently asked our colleagues at N2Africa ‘is soybean a woman’s crop?’ Ken Giller reminded us that we could not make generalizations – and that we had to explore the context and location to know. For the Ghanaian context Samuel Adjei-Nsiah came back with a great answer. He […]
Read MoreA soybean campaign plan for Ghana
10 January 2017 The GALA team writes: In the framework of the GALA project we are exploring how effective different media, and combinations of media, can be at encouraging farmers to trial and/or adopt improved legume technologies. There is a specific emphasis on how different promotional approaches impact on women and younger farmers. GALA works […]
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Read MoreSeed production starts to address chronic shortage
20 December 2016 The availability of high quality seed of improved varieties of common bean and soy has been a challenge for the Legume Alliance in Tanzania. The Scaling Up Legume Technologies (SILT) project has meant that a new partner has been working to address the seed shortage. The Agricultural Seed Agency has a remit to […]
Read MoreWorld Soil Day blog … celebrates growing soil information resource
5 December 2016A library of over 400 information products has grown out of a soil project in Africa. Today on World Soil Day, we wanted to share with you how a unique library of promotional materials has grown out of a soil health project. Since 2011, the CABI-led Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) has been […]
Read MoreIITA maps out its role in SILT research
1 December 2016: In this blog Dr Cargele Masso sets out the role being played by IITA to help make the Scaling-Up Improved Legume Technologies (SILT) project a success: I am working with a group of colleagues to support 5 students to create a series of rigorous research projects aligned to the SILT. Dr Fredrick […]
Read MoreThe Shujaaz Legume Alliance campaign
29 November 2016 Lucky Komba, producer at Shujaaz, writes: The Legume Alliance contacted Shujaaz to see if we could make bean farming ‘cool’ again! This was no easy challenge. Our recent national survey showed that young Tanzanian’s are far from embracing the opportunities available to them in agriculture: “When you tell us to go do […]
Read MoreAFAP common bean farmer field days attract young farmers (updated May 2017)
25 November 2016 Young farmers – under the age of 35 – were the predominant group attending the farmer field days at the common bean demonstration plots this season. In seven of the 15 field days – under 35 year olds made up over 90% of the attenders. Overall 86% of the farmers attending the […]
Read More500,000 comics share common bean messages
24 November 2016: The Scaling-up Improved Legume Technologies team has been working with Well Told Story publishers of the highly success Shujaaz comic. At the end of October 500,000 comics were distributed in Tanzania. Around 70,000 copies of the comic were slipped into the popular sports newspaper Mwanasporti. The November 2016 comic revisited some of the […]
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