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Movies & SMS inform soy farmers in N Ghana
21 July 2017: Duncan Sones, one of the communications specialists on the ASHC team reflects on the recent soybean campaign in Northern Ghana. This campaign has been delivered by the Africa Soil Health Consortium and its partners with support from the Gender and Legumes Alliance project. The rains have arrived in Northern Ghana, and our […]
Read More1.75 million SMSs push UPTAKE of new technologies
10 July 2017: Stephanie Gakuo, UPTAKE project manager reflects on the progress and emerging lessons from the project and the recent SMS campaigns. The full name of the UPTAKE project is Upscaling Agricultural Technologies through Knowledge and Extension. The agricultural technologies include a combination of the use of inputs that include seed, fertilizer and pest and disease control technologies, along with the promotion […]
Read MoreOFRA and the fertilizer data legacy…
5 July 2017: Following the recent close-out workshop of OFRA we asked Martin Macharia, the projects data manager at CABI, to talk us through the achievement of objective 1 to improve use of research data to support fertilizer recommendations. Making a database I think it would be good to start with a summary of the achievements […]
Read MoreCampaign-based approaches in development
7 June 2017: In both East and West Africa the ASHC team is working to develop multi-media campaign. Duncan Sones reviews the question What do we mean by a campaign-based approach? The ASHC approach has seen us facilitating the creation of partnership across a number of organization that together can deliver a multiple-media campaign. The aim of […]
Read MoreChristine Alokit: Bananas, veg & a fertilizer film
27 April 2017: Christine Alokit is the face of ASHC in Uganda, as a part of her responsibilities for CABI in the country. She explains how she has worked with ASHC: Today we are meeting with the Banana Agronomy Project in Kampala, Uganda. The project is exploring ways of improving scalable banana agronomy for small-scale farmers in highland banana cropping systems […]
Read MoreSoybean training days at Tanzania demo plots
21 April: SILT partner David Kijazi, from the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership, writes: The team at the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership has organized a new round of farmers’ field days at the soybean demonstration sites in Southern Tanzania. We will be carrying out 8 training days at the end of April/ beginning of May. Last year we attracted 1,133 people at the 15 […]
Read MoreGhana: Fertilizer guidance draws in private sector
20 April Harrison Rware, from the OFRA implementation team, writes: A research brief published by OFRA partners in Ghana, the Soil Research Institute (CSIR-SRI), recommends a new approach to fertilizer production and distribution. The brief specifically targets the private sector and recommends that fertilizer producing companies work closely with CSIR-SRI in the development and validation of fertilizer blends, with […]
Read MoreMartin Macharia talks soil, data, blends and apps
12 April 2017: The Optimizing Fertilizer Recommendations in Africa (OFRA) project has had a busy few months. We have just published our book Fertilizer Use Optimization in sub-Saharan Africa. So far over 60 copies have been downloaded from the website and a further 750 copies printed. This will mean that all our partners will have hard copies of the publication to help […]
Read MoreFilm distribution for ‘all the farming family’
12 April 2017: When ASHC delivers training in media production we stress – do not commission anything until you have your distribution process worked out! In Northern Ghana we have taken this very much to heart. We have partnered with Countrywise Ghana to produce and distribute a film on soybean farming. Countrywise is our partner because they too […]
Read MoreScaling-up soybean: “Mother and baby” demos
7 April 2017: The SILT delivery team shares work from FIPs-Africa to create over 2,000 on farm soybean demos in Tanzania: Since 2015, the Scaling up Legume Technologies (SILT) project has been implementing a joint multi-media campaign targeting priority legumes – common beans and soybeans in Tanzania. This project is funded by IDRC, and implemented by CAB […]
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