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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 MoreAccessing markets is key to improved legume technology uptake
30 January 2017: Monica Kansiime, seed systems scientist, CABI, writes: In the southern highlands of Tanzania, people’s livelihoods are dependent on what farmers can grow for food and sale. Legumes, such as common beans, soybean and groundnut, are good protein sources and play a key role in nutritional security and household incomes. But yields lately […]
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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 MoreMid-term review process begins …
24 October 2016: At the end of September the partners in the Scaling-up Improved Legume Technologies (SILT) project met to review their progress and plan for the mid-term review. Duncan Sones, from the CABI delivery team, looks at the progress and challenges that this process uncovered. The idea behind SILT is simple. A consortium of […]
Read MoreChampioning radio…
29 September – Karen Hampson reports: Today I got an email from David Mowbray, a Farm Radio Associate, who had been attending the 50th Anniversary Conference for CIMMYT, in Mexico. In a conference session yesterday afternoon, Ken Giller delivered a key note speech entitled Systems agronomy: From fields to farms and farming systems. Ken is […]
Read MoreGALA taking shape in Tanzania
Silvia Silvestri, from CABI, explains that the Gender and the Legume Alliance (GALA) partners are planning to meet to kick-start the project in Tanzania … The GALA project will operate in Ghana and Tanzania. In Tanzania we are building on a strong body of work that has been developing over the past 18 months to […]
Read MoreSILT seed policy meeting: 26 September in Arusha
The partners in the Scaling-up Improved Legume Technologies (SILT) have set the date for their first policy workshop. The meeting will take place on 26 September in Arusha, Tanzania. Invitations are currently being sent out to key individuals in institutions including the ministry of agriculture, livestock and fisheries, the Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute and the […]
Read MoreShujaaz seeks out young bean farmers…
4 August 2016 Duncan Sones writes… In September and October 2015 the team at Shujaaz in Tanzania developed two stories about what they call Hustlers who made money from common beans. The first person featured was a young man who was a farmer, he gave tips on growing beans. The second story was of a young […]
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