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Working with phone & data providers
Getting ASHC information on the right lines with private sector phone and data providers The Africa Soil Health Consortium has developed a guide on ‘How to… produce farmer-friendly text messages for extension campaigns’. This explored thechallenges of delivery priority agricultural information within the constraints of a text message. As an example the ASHC team mapped […]
Read MoreASHC supporting Malawi policy communications
The Soil Health Consortium of Malawi has 3 objectives that can be summarised as: Improve access to ISFM information for key stakeholders Enhance dissemination of ISFM innovations Enhance capacity to harmonise and consolidate ISFM innovations through training, workshops,research and by producing radio and television documentaries based on successful ISFM researc ASHC was approached to provide […]
Read MoreOFRA baseline: Summary survey results shared
The OFRA baseline survey was conducted during April and May 2014. To gather our list of names we spoke with people we knew to be involved in the fertilizer research in various institutions and asked them to share their contacts. Our list snowballed into 416 contacts. 219 people responded to the questionnaire from 12 of […]
Read MoreIPNI’s farmer-friendly fertilizer information
Case notes on how ASHC has supported IPNI’s work in Kenya Nathaniel Ndemba has a reason to smile. He is a smallholder farmer from Siaya County, who is now harvesting 40 bags of maize from his 2-acre farm – up from just 10 bags! Nathaniel’s success story is one of many in his community who have benefitted […]
Read MoreASHC asks is profit a dirty word?
When ASHC set up its Creative Commons license it took the very deliberate decision to make all its materials open to all, including the commercial sector. This was done on the basis that most smallholder farmers see an afro-dealer at least as often as they do an extension worker. George Oduor of ASHC explains: “ASHC […]
Read MoreASHC working with universities
ASHC is keen to work with universities around Africa to help them access the materials produced as curriculum enrichment materials A number of universities are represented on the technical advisory group for ASHC. ASHC is currently working on a range of materials based on the ISFM handbook. The handbook is being turned into a series […]
Read MoreFour awards amongst ASHC partnership
Celebration time amongst the ASHC partnership… We congratulate our partners ICRISAT and Agro-Insight on coming first in their category at the 2014 International Visual Communications Association awards ceremony held at Grosvenor House Hotel, London on 28 March. The category was the Industry Award for Communication Effectiveness sponsored by The Edge Picture Company. ASHC supported this […]
Read MoreMaking farming attractive to young Kenyans
Sw’agriculture – Making farming attractive to young Kenyans through youth media innovations In March 2014 the Kenyan youth media phenomenon Shujaaz won its second Digital Emmy Award. ASHC has produced two story lines with Shujaaz to explore how integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) messages can be packaged in very different ways for a youth audience. […]
Read MoreInception meeting heralds start of OFRA
“The inception workshop for Optimising Fertilizer Recommendations in Africa (OFRA) was a great success and it has set the course for this exciting project,” says George Oduor, the OFRA project manager. He continues: “It was a great achievement to bring together more than 50 staff from the delivery partners to share ideas about how the project should develop. […]
Read MoreKenya’s youth encourage Smart Farming
A schools poster competition has shown that Kenyan young people really understand what farmers need to be successful. “It is often thought that young people don’t take an interest in agriculture. This competition shows, that with a combination of exciting lessons and incentives, young Kenyans quickly pick up the basics of smart farming. It also […]
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