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World Soil Day blog … celebrates growing soil information resource
5 December 2016A library of over 400 information products has grown out of a soil project in Africa. Today on World Soil Day, we wanted to share with you how a unique library of promotional materials has grown out of a soil health project. Since 2011, the CABI-led Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) has been […]
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AFAP common bean farmer field days attract young farmers (updated May 2017)
25 November 2016 Young farmers – under the age of 35 – were the predominant group attending the farmer field days at the common bean demonstration plots this season. In seven of the 15 field days – under 35 year olds made up over 90% of the attenders. Overall 86% of the farmers attending the […]
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500,000 comics share common bean messages
24 November 2016: The Scaling-up Improved Legume Technologies team has been working with Well Told Story publishers of the highly success Shujaaz comic. At the end of October 500,000 comics were distributed in Tanzania. Around 70,000 copies of the comic were slipped into the popular sports newspaper Mwanasporti. The November 2016 comic revisited some of the […]
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Food Lab meets the Legume Alliance
8 November 2016: A Leadership Summit organized by the Sustainable Food Lab visited Farm Radio International yesterday to explore the work of the Legume Alliance. As part of the conference package a series of Learning Journeys were developed. These were designed to provide first-hand experiences with diverse farmers, companies, and development organisations to inform the learning and […]
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Is there anybody out there? 500,000 potential listeners…
Producing a series of radio coverage maps is the first step towards estimating the size of the range and reach for Farm Radio International’s partner broadcasters. This methodology provides reliable estimates of potential listeners, actual listeners, and a radio station’s broadcast zone. Farm Radio gathers information from each station on: the location of the station […]
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100,000 SMS messages sent to help farmers in Tanzania
25 october 2016: CABI is exploring how regular SMS messages of agronomic information impact on the attitudes and behaviour of farmers. The latest crops to be included in campaigns are cassava and maize. These campaigns have resulted in over 100,000 SMS messages being sent to farmers in Tanzania as part of the UPTAKE project. Stephanie Gakuo, […]
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Women and youth targeted with common bean info …
20 October 2016: Partners in the Scaling-up Improved Legume Technologies (SILT) project are looking at ways to ensure that messages on growing common beans reach interested farmers – especially women and young people in Tanzania. November 2016 will see the arrival of a youth campaign delivered by Well Told Story/ Shujaaz. The campaign will combine […]
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ISFM materials library – over 3,900 downloads
16 October 2016 (updated news item) In April 2016 James Watiti, from CABI, had been reviewing the use of the ISFM materials library on the ASHC website. James noted: “We have seen steady progress in the use of the ISFM materials library. In April 2015 we launched the materials library visitors downloaded 52 materials. In […]
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SILT explores policy bottlenecks for legume farmers
1 October 2016: The Scaling-up Improved Legume Technologies project in Tanzania is supporting soybean and common bean farmers to access improved inputs and information on the methods that will maximize profit. On 26 September 2016, AFAP in collaboration with IITA/N2Africa organized a one-day seed policy review meeting in Arusha, Tanzania . This is the first […]
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Legume Alliance busy week in Arusha…
20 September 2016Next week will be a busy time for the Legume Alliance in Tanzania. A series of meetings will seek to push forward two programs that are looking at support for common bean and soybean growers in Tanzania. One of the major constraints for farmers is access to the improved farm inputs such as […]
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