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Enthusiastic responses to new ASHC website
‘The ASHC team has had some great feedback on the new website and, in particular, the ISFM materials library.’ Explains James Watiti, ASHC project manager. ‘This is exactly the sort of feedback we had hoped to get from our peers and it has energised us to make more and more materials available.’ ASHC launched its new […]
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Meet the ASHC team in Morocco
2-7 November 2014, Ecole Normale Supérieure –Rabat, Morocco at Soil Biofertilization and Sustainable Development in Africa Come and find out about our latest publications, see the new website, talk about your plans for the future and how the Africa Soil Health Consortium can help you. ASHC will also be sharing, and consulting on, the ISFM […]
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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 […]
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October 2014: ASHC newsletter
The ASHC October newsletter has been published. This 20 page magazine reports on the following news stories: Case notes: father and daughter bond through an ISFM story in a comic Funding update Africa Green Revolution Forum 2014 ASHC pilots capacity building in Malawi to forward pro-ISFM policy Congratulations Andre Plans developed to reach over 1 […]
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ASHC 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 […]
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COMPRO 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 […]
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New 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 […]
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OFRA 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, […]
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Comic 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, […]
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Father 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 […]
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