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COMPRO II: April 2014 newsletter published
Summary of activity: COMPRO II newsletters published – Quality & Yield – Newsletter 6 ASHC support objective 4 of this project relating to the development and delivery of the communications strategy
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ASHC 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 […]
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Four 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 […]
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Making 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 MoreCOMPRO II: December 2013 newsletters published
COMPRO II newsletters published – Quality & Yield – Newsletter 4 and 5 ASHC support objective 4 of this project relating to the development and delivery of the communications strategy
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Inception 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. […]
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Kenya’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 […]
Read More Africa works towards fertilizer optimisation…
New partnership of 13 sub-Saharan countries, facilitated by ASHC and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, explores fertlizer optimisation On 20 July 2013 AGRA confirmed $5.65m funding for a project that will be know as Optimizing Fertilizer Recommendations in Africa (OFRA). ASHC will be responsible for communications and CABI will be the contract holder for the OFRA project. […]
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OFRA seeks an exceptional project team…
Following the funding announcement in July 2013 by AGRA, the Optimizing Fertilizer Recommendations for Africa (OFRA) is starting to build a new project team to deliver the ambitious work plan. George Oduor, project manager for OFRA explained: “The OFRA project is very much part of the Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC), but the new challenges […]
Read MoreASHC supports Tanzania ISFM consortium launch
Promotional material developed at the ASHC/AGRA write-shop for use at the launch The Tanzania Soil Health Consortium – TASHCO- brings together all of the leading practitioners in Tanzania that are working on ISFM technologies. The consortium was officially launched on 25 July 2013 by the Regional Commissioner for Arusha, the Hon Magesa Mulongo. In his […]
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