GALA blog
An insight into the development of the GALA project.
ASHC putting three more countries on its map
5 August 2017: The ASHC team is looking ahead to the new campaigns to support partner projects in East and West Africa… Soybean, cassava and bananas are all in the mix. Overview The ASHC funding agreement requires that the majority of the work has to be conducted in one or more of five priority countries Ghana and Nigeria […]
Read MoreMovies & 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 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 MoreHow do soybean farmers get information?
11 April 2017:At the end of March the GALA team travelled to Tamale in Northern Ghana to help deliver training on data collection to 10 enumerators. As a result, next week the GALA project starts conducting intra-household surveys at 300 farms in five districts in the Northern region of Ghana. The intra-household survey interviews up […]
Read MoreIntra-household survey – Tanzania
4 April 2017: Silvia Silvestri, GALA project manager, writes: Over the past few months the GALA delivery team has been trying to understand how households in Tanzania obtained and share information on farming practices. This will help us to understand the effectiveness of different communication approaches in delivering agricultural information to small-scale farmers. It will also help us to reflect on which currently change […]
Read MoreWhat agro-dealers think – a survey from Northern Ghana
12 February 2017:GALA partner Green Ef has recently carried out surveys into the range of products being stocked by agro-dealers in Northern Ghana. They also recorded the comments made by the agro-dealers. These comments give us a useful insight into the opportunities and challenges perceived by the agro-dealers. We asked Green Ef to share the comments they collected in the […]
Read MoreSoybean 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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