N2Africa Podcaster 51

March and April 2018

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Beans in Rwanda. Photo credit Ken Giller

Key achievements and learnings available in the N2Africa Annual Report 2017

Total number of farmers reached from 2014 to 2017

A lot happened in N2Africa in 2017. As the core countries continued dissemination of technologies and strengthening of public-private partnerships to ensure sustainable access to these technologies, the Tier 1 countries focused on exit strategies to sustain the achieved results as N2Africa ended in these countries. ...

Highlights of the Annual Report 2017

This article tells on Recommendations for best-fit technologies, Adaptation trials, Learning pathways and on the N2Africa impact design.

Scaling-up Improved Legume Technologies in Tanzania through the Legume Alliance

Salome Thomas from Orkonerei Radio Service (ORS) in Terrat Simanjiro Manyara on air. Photo credits Simon Scott

During its Nov-2015-Feb-2018 implementation period, Scaling-up improved Legume Technologies in Tanzania (SILT) promoted improved soyabean and common bean technologies reaching 600,000 farming family members. 100,000 farmers started to use more than one promoted practice. This was achieved by developing a series of integrated campaigns targeting different family members with nuanced information. The results were achieved in the Northern and Southern Highlands of Tanzania through multi-media campaigns incorporating different combinations of leaflets, posters, comics, interactive radio, SMS messages and demonstration plots and farmers training sessions. ...

From targeting to tailoring: Baskets of options for legume cultivation among African smallholders

On the 4^th of April I successfully defended my PhD thesis, entitled From targeting to tailoring: Baskets of options for legume cultivation among African smallholders, in the aula of Wageningen University. It was a day with interesting discussions and a great celebration afterwards.

N2Africa in the news

Article in the Ethiopian Herald: Over 50,000 smallholders benefit from inoculation technology.

Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website

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Related newsletters

FAO news items: Family farmers must remain central to agroecology scale-up, Agroecology can help change the world’s food production for the better, and Hunger uptick in Africa can be reversed;
ICRISAT news: African smallholders can double their yields with half the water;
IITA bulletin 2425 with a story on “Food security: The balance of quantity, nutrition, and safety”;
Soybean Innovation Lab Newsletter: February 2018, with a link to the “Field Guide to Soybean Diseases and Pests” Green Ef research, which is specifically designed for use in Africa.

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