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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 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 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 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 […]
Read MoreSoybean Innovation Lab and CABI explore a stepwise investment approach using technology bundles
Duncan Sones of CABI-led Africa Soil Health Consortium project explains what has been going on in Northern Ghana. The book Nudge explains the authors’ Nobel Prize-winning idea to adapt policy approaches to encourage people to make decisions that are in their broad self-interest. It’s not about penalizing people financially if they don’t act in certain […]
Read MoreAfrica Soil Health Consortium builds NARO’s capacity in communication material development
Authored by: Abigael Mchana Developing fit-for-purpose, interactive and effective communication materials for farmers and their intermediaries is not an easy task. You cannot create a poster with generic text or images and then distribute it to your audience en-masse. It requires an in-depth analysis of your primary stakeholder, an understanding of your audience’s preferred communication […]
Read MoreAfrica Soil Health Consortium benefits from Cornell University’s Agriknowledge project to reach a wider audience
Agriknowledge and the Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) have entered into a partnership that will increase access and utilization of ASHC materials beyond the project’s life. Agriknowledge, a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF) funded project managed by Cornell University is an online, publically available collection of information resources that includes reports, white papers, policy […]
Read MoreSoybean farmers in Nigeria embrace new production technologies
Soybean Farmers in Nigeria Embrace new Production Technologies There is a growing interest and enthusiasm in the production of soybean among farmers in selected states in Nigeria as new yield-enhancing and soil fertility-improving technologies are being introduced to them through an integrated farmer education campaign. A collaboration between CABI’s Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC), Intrio […]
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