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Celebrating GALA success…
6 June 2016: Edward Baars and Minke Stadler introduce an exciting development for the Legume Alliance in Tanzania and plans for new work in Ghana… The project ‘Gender and the Legume Alliance: integrating multi-media communications approaches and input brokerage’ is implemented by CABI and N2Africa with grant support from the SAIRLA-programme. This five-year programme commissions research […]
Read MoreInformation plus …
23 May 2016 Information plus … the journey towards sustainable change in legume technologies George Oduor from CABI explains: The goal of any long-term development project is to create sustainable changes in awareness, attitude and ultimately behavior. In phase 1 of the Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) projects delivering soil fertility messages were offered facilitation and consultancy […]
Read MoreASHC summary of Tanzania campaign
The African Soil Health Consortium has produced a summary of the Maharage Bingwa (Champion Bean) campaign. ASHC Tanzania campaign summary This four-page document sets out how the partners are coming together to disseminate information on good agricultural practices relating to common beans. As reported early this adds to some other great information shared by other partners: […]
Read MorePartners share information on Legume Alliance
We are grateful to our friends at N2Africa for sharing information about the Legume Alliance and Farm Radio International for their audio postcard on Marahage Bingwa
Read MoreNew members for Alliance
The Legume Alliance is a consortium of the willing. We are please to share the information that Wageningen University, Farm Inputs Services – Africa (FIPS-Africa) and the Selian Agricultural Research Institution (SARI) have agreed to become partners.
Read MoreReport sets out challenges for farmer-friendly info
22 October 2015 Working with partner in the Legume Alliance in Tanzania, CABI has commissioned and published a report called an Information needs assessment: Tanzania The report aims to do two things. First, the team asked representatives or key groups and organizations how they accessed information on agricultural practices. Secondly they reviewed some materials produced as part […]
Read MoreBetter together: Joining the Allliance
The Legume Alliance is based on a strong partnership model that also views partners from an information supply chain perspective thus anticipating their roles as knowledge partners, intermediary partners, and last-mile or end-user partners. The last role in this perspective will include organizations that aggregate and group farmers into organized units for intervention. The current […]
Read MoreThe story so far…
The Legume Alliance was first mooted as an idea in March this year. The project then got underway a couple of months latter. Looking back over the period from June to September we have made great progress together. This is what we have done: Produced a country profile for Tanzania Produced an information needs assessment […]
Read MoreFIPS-Africa to pilot Legume Alliance materials
FIPS-Africa is working in South Tanzania. In the area around Mbeya the main common bean season is in November/December with a second season in March. In the North the season starts in October and is very short. This gives the Legume Alliance the potential to enhance its pilot stage activity. FIPS-Africa will use its network […]
Read MoreMembership of Legume Alliance grows…
The Legume Alliance is a consortium of the willing. We are please to share the information that Wageningen University, Farm Inputs Services – Africa (FIPS-Africa) and the Selian Agricultural Research Institution (SARI) have agreed to become partners.
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