1. News reports
ASHC gets green light to develop phase 2
The Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded bridging funding to support the development of a second phase of ASHC. James Watiti from ASHC explains: “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invited CABI to develop a second phase of ASHC. To enable this to happen ASHC has […]
Read MoreASHC new website launched
George Oduor, who leads the team at ASHC, answers questions about the new ASHC website Why was a new website needed? ASHC has changed since it was launched in 2011. In 2013 ASHC took on the management of a major AGRA-funded development program looking at optimizing fertilizer recommendations in 13 sub-Saharan countries. We are also […]
Read MoreCOMPRO II: October 2014 newsletter published
The new COMPRO II newsletter is available now. Quality & Yield – Issue 8 – 2014 is produced by ASHC to support objective 4 of this IITA-led project supporting the commercialisation of a range of products. In this issue you will find: Tanzania launches registration guidelines for bio-fertilizer COMPROII student profiles Rhizobium inoculants demonstrate yield Increase on soybean […]
Read MoreNew crop of ISFM guides drafted
“ASHC is pleased to announce the completion of the first drafts of four ISFM cropping guides,” explains Lydia Wairegi, ASHC systems agronomist. “These guides are an important contribution to the ISFM literature. The starting point for each was to find the leading thinkers and researchers in ISFM for specific crops and to consolidate every […]
Read MoreOFRA progress report
Optimising Fertilizer Recommendations in Africa (OFRA) is an integral part of the ASHC that seeks to change the way that fertilizer recommendations are produced and promoted to smallholder farmers in Africa. Using fertilizer response data generated by partners in 13 sub-Saharan countries, new recommendations will be developed that place profitability, and not maximisation of production, […]
Read MoreComic spreads new farming approaches
Raymond Jumah from FIPS-Africa shares case notes from a youth media experiment in farming families in Tanzania As part the ASHC innovation communication pilot projects two ISFM comic strip stories were commissioned from Well Told Story. These stories appeared in Shujaaz and 600,000 comics were distributed in Kenya. In Kenya Shujaaz has a following amongst young people, […]
Read MoreFather and daughter bond over ISFM comic
Raymond Jumah from FIPS-Africa shares case notes from a youth media experiment in farming families in Tanzania Veronica Victorice of Mtegowa Simba village in Tanzania has a different relationship with her father now – and it is all thanks to a comic. As part of the its innovation communication pilot projects, ASHC commissioned two stories in […]
Read MoreAndré wins again
UNESCO’s Director-General, Irina Bokova, has announced that ASHC technical advisory group (TAG) chair André Bationo is one of the laureates of the UNESCO–Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences for 2014. In line with UNESCO’s goals to encourage research; mobilise science knowledge and policy for sustainable development and fostering capacity-building in science […]
Read MoreASHC at the Africa Green Revolution Forum 2014
ASHC was delighted to be part of the AGRA Soil Health Program stand at the Africa Green Revolution Forum 2014. We were in good company exhibiting alongside two of valued partners the Kenya based development agency IPNI and AfSIS, the digital soil mapping people. On 3 September 2014 these three organisations collaborated with AGRA to […]
Read MoreGrant for ASHC Handbook for ISFM to be printed
ASHC has received a grant from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) of €10,000 towards the printing of copies of the Handbook for Integrated Soil Management. This will support the printing of 3,000 English and 700 French copies.These manuals will be disseminated free of charge and will available for download under a […]
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