My research project has assessed the diversity and symbiotic effectiveness of bacteria nodulating beans in different agro-ecological zones in Kenya, developed a gene-marker system for rapid analysis of nodule occupancy and evaluated the effect of several factors, such as soil nitrogen, on strain nodule occupancy outcomes.
This special issue of the N2Africa Podcaster is devoted to updates from each of the PhD students being funded through N2Africa. Dr Amaral Chibeba from Mozambique is the only student to have completed his PhD so far, although we expect several more to complete in the coming months. Your comments and suggestions on the ongoing projects are most welcome.
Ken Giller
Earlier this month I had the privilege to visit N2Africa activities in the north of Uganda together with Peter Ebanyat (Uganda Country Coordinator), Aron Othieno (Field Liaison Officer) and Connetie Ayesiga (Business Development Officer). Together with World Vision Uganda, our major partner in the region, we visited a number of farmer groups and other stakeholders. N2Africa is working in this region with common beans, groundnut and soyabean. Farmers had a lot of common bean in their fields, largely as a food security crop.
The report "N2Africa rhizobial isolates in Kenya" giving details of research activities related to rhizobial isolates for Pisum sativum in Kenya.
|
It is with regret that we announce the demise of Dr David Icishahayo, who was a Lecturer in the Crop Science Department at the University of Zimbabwe. He passed away on 20 July 2016 at St Giles Medical Rehabilitation in Harare, where he was recovering after he had suffered a stroke three weeks earlier. David joined the University of Zimbabwe as a Research Assistant in 1999, having arrived in the country from Rwanda/Burundi as a refugee. |
MSc thesis "Effect of rhizobia inoculation and phosphorus fertilizer on nodulation and yield of soyabean [Glycine max (L.) Merril] in Dedza, Kasungu and Salima districts of Malawi"
 |
Mr M.M. Onimago thanks Malete Youth Integrated Agriculture Training Farm Centre, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (N2Africa), 2SCALE and Hybrid Agro Business Consult HABC Kwara on behalf of the Kwara youth farmers in Nigeria. |
Designing development-to-research approaches that support positive changes in livelihoods of farmers require actions that are based on solid project evaluations and impact studies. The N2Africa project evaluations are based on the results framework and distinguish results on activities, outputs and outcomes. This framework has been used on an annual basis to monitor and evaluate progress and foster learning (Podcaster 36).