As we move into the last year of active farmer engagement, the research team in Zimbabwe has begun tapping into a large knowledge base that has been built by N2Africa in the last 8 years. Informed by ‘if we do what we have always done, we will get what we have always got’, we recently innovated our dissemination and training approach over the recent post-harvest period (May - October) for our nutrition and marketing initiatives.

N2Africa – Ethiopia held its Mid-Annual and M&E Review meeting from October 13^th-14^th, 2016 at ILRI in Addis Ababa. The overall objective of the workshop was to review the implementation progress of the project, in reference to the work plan 2016, and to develop strategies for improvements. The project is implemented in collaboration with diverse partners from public and private sectors, and NGOs using different methods and approaches.

“Sustainability” was the theme of the third N2Africa Tanzania review and planning meeting, that took place on October 19^th-20^th, 2016 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The meeting brought together 34 participants drawn from partner institutions.

Recently, the N2Africa website has been migrated to a new version of the content management system Drupal. This was done to improve security and performance. Furthermore, the intranet part of the N2Africa website has been separated from the public part. Therefore, the URL of the intranet part has been changed to: http://intranet.n2africa.org

To a great extent the functionality of the user interface has stayed the same. However please, let us know whenever you encounter problems.

Marcel Lubbers, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

In 2015, N2Africa was selected as a case study within the PROIntensAfrica initiative and over the last one and a half year this case study was conducted in two of the N2Africa countries, Ghana and Kenya. We have given regular updates in the Podcaster, and the case study has now been finalised. The report can be found online: click here.

My research focused on investigating the response of groundnut to inorganic sources of calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) with emphases on yield, fats and protein contents, as well as profitability of fertilizer in groundnut production at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania.

• MSc report Groundnut response to calcium and phosphorus fertilizer rates in Tanzania by Henry Tamba Nyuma (a summary of this report will be published in the next Podcaster);
• N2Africa as case study for PROIntensAfrica - What role for legumes in sutainable intensification (a summary of this report will b

A publication in The Conversation, lifting the gloom of African farmers through legume production by Frederick Baijukya and Fred Kanampiu: http://theconversation.com/why-boosting-legume-production-will-lift-the-gloom-for-african-farmers-63007
 

International Year of Pulses (IYP)
The International Year of Pulses creates a unique moment to showcase research investments that would allow pulse crops to deliver on their full potential as a critical player in the global food system. The 10-Year Research Strategy report will be used to set the future research agenda.

We received a number of newsletters:
SUN Movement Newsletter September 2016 (Scaling Up Nutrition);
The IITA Bulletin 31 October – 4 November 2016 (No. 2352);
Soybean Innovation Lab Newsletter October 2016;