Events

ASHC technical advisory group meeting – Nairobi, Kenya

Duration: 6-8 February 2013 Purpose: To review progress made by the ASHC delivery team over the previous 12 months and to plan future developements.

ISFM radio campaign on 22 syndicated radio shows across Kenya

Event: ISFM radio campaign on 22 syndicated radio shows Dates: 16-21 December 2012 As part of the communications experiment with Shujaaz 22 Kenyan radio stations will broadcast programmes devised by Shujaaz. Each night the Shujaaz team will present ISFM messages in an imaginative and entertaining five minutes radio programme. ASHC lead for this programme is Duncan Sones the ASHC communications […]

Publication of ISFM feature issue of Young African Express sponsored by ASHC – Nairobi, Kenya

As part of the World Soil Day promotion in Kenya, ASHC has commission an education campaign in Young African Express. Purpose: This communications experiment involves the distribution to Kenyan school of curriculum support materials, based on ISFM approaches, for use in science classes. This is followed by a competition for schools to create an ISFM publicity poster […]

World Soil Day 2012

Publication of ASHC Newsletter 15 wishes for World Soil Day – Nairobi, Kenya

Publication: ASHC Newsletter 15 wishes for World Soil Day To coincide with World Soil Day on 5 December, the Africa Soil Health Consortium has produced a visionary newsletter based on the wishes of 15 people with interesting views on issues relating to soil health. The newsletter is being supported by a press and social media campaign […]

Shujaaz ISFM special – 600,000 comics hit the streets in Kenya

Publication: ISFM feature issue of Shujaaz As part of the World Soil Day celebrations in Kenya, ASHC is publishing an integrated soil fertility management story in the December issue of Shujaaz 600,000 comics will be distributed in Kenya showing the benefits of using improved seed, organic matter and fertilizer. Shujaaz comic For the week 16 December over twenty […]

COMPRO II newsletter 2 published

Summary of activity: COMPRO II newsletters published – Quality & Yield – Newsletter 2 ASHC support objective 4 of this project relating to the development and delivery of the communications strategy. ASHC team member responsible: James Watiti editor of the COMPRO II newsletter    

Launch of ASHC ISFM handbook Nairobi, Kenya

Launch: ASHC Handbook for Integrated Soil Fertility Management As part of the conference Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa: From Microbes to markets (ISFM Africa 2012) ASHC launched its new handbook. The handbook is edited by Thomas Fairhurst and has contributions from leading experts in ISFM in an African context. Speakers: Ken Giller and George Oduor […]

ASHC-sponsored Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa Conference – Nairobi, Kenya

Conference: Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa: From Microbes to Markets (ISFM Africa) Duration: 22-26 October 2012 Purpose of the conference: A conference of organizations and projects delivering ISFM technologies to small-scale farmers in Africa. Focus: Dealt with the comparison and scaling-up of candidate breakthrough technologies, monitoring and evaluation of their impacts within rural settings and along agricultural value […]

Stakeholders’ Meeting of the Africa RISING – Arusha, Tanzania

Meeting: Stakeholders’ Meeting of the Africa RISING – East and Southern Africa Project Duration: 4-5 October 2012 Purpose of the meeting: To discuss the review of the achievements from the first year and research plans for the second year of Africa RISING (Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation) Program. Africa RISING is a multi-stakeholder agricultural research program to […]