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Date Newsletter # Newsletter item # Title
59 1 Introduction
59 2 I will surely miss the presence of a truly lovable and kind person
59 3 Africa has lost a committed farmers’ champion – Rest in Peace!
59 4 Biography
59 6 Milestones
58 1 Introduction
58 2 Verifying contribution claims
58 3 N2Africa Policy recommendations reports advocacy follow-up in Ethiopia and Tanzania
58 4 Can we trust land area estimates?
58 5 Evaluation of the Productivity and Profitability of Soyabean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) Production Technologies in the Nigerian Savannas
58 6 Genetically diverse microsymbionts belonging to novel and other defined symbiovars are responsible for cowpea root nodulation in Northern Mozambique
58 7 N2Africa publications
58 8 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
58 9 N2Africa in the news
58 10 Related newsletters
57 1 Introduction
57 2 Genetic diversity of indigenous rhizobia nodulating soyabean in grassland and cultivated fields of South Kivu, D.R.Congo
57 3 Symbiotic interaction between chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes and Mesorhizobium Strains in Ethiopia
57 4 Influence of product bundling on farmers’ preferences to buy soyabean inputs: A conjoint study in Ethiopia
57 5 Allocation of grain legume fodders in mixed crop-livestock systems of northern Ghana
57 6 Understanding smallholder farming systems in the Guinea savanna of Ghana for targeting grain legume intensification options
57 7 My PhD results’ harvest!
57 8 Sharing project benefits
57 9 Diverse Bradyrhizobia strains can nodulate cowpea in Nigerian soils
57 10 Responses of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) varieties to rhizobia inoculation, phosphorus application and sequential cropping system in Minna, Nigeria
57 11 Enhancing biological nitrogen fixation and yield of soyabean and common bean in smallholder farming systems of Rwanda
57 12 The Role of the Integrated Maize-Soyabean-Chicken Value Chains in Sustaining Diverse Diets: the case of Southern Highlands of Tanzania
57 13 Legume Technologies’ adoption among smallholders: Role of ICT market interventions and impact
57 14 Genetic diversity and symbiotic efficiency of indigenous and naturalised soyabean root nodule from Zimbabwe
57 15 Overview of students that, to date, completed their PhD
57 16 N2Africa publications
57 17 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
57 18 Related newsletters
57 19 Announcements
56 1 Introduction
56 2 Overview of N2Africa training and extension materials available
56 3 Highlights of N2Africa-Ethiopia in 2018
56 4 Opportunities for developing the soyabean sector in Ghana
56 5 Some highlighted outcomes from 2018 (N2Africa Borno state, Nigeria)
56 6 N2Africa in Tanzania in 2018
56 7 Building an exit strategy for N2Africa project in Uganda - the prospects
56 8 N2Africa project recognizes partners upon project closing workshop in Ethiopia
56 9 N2Africa Policy recommendations workshop in Ethiopia and Tanzania
56 10 Stakeholders approve recommendations for favourable policies to support increased production of grain legumes in Tanzania
56 11 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
56 12 Related newsletters
55 1 Introduction
55 2 The Sustainable Soyabean Roundtable in Oslo, Norway
55 3 A combination of dissemination approaches to scale-up legume technologies in Tanzania
55 4 N2Africa legacy in DRC
55 5 N2Africa legacy in Kenya
55 6 N2Africa legacy in Malawi
55 7 N2Africa legacy in Mozambique
55 8 N2Africa legacy in Rwanda
55 9 N2Africa legacy in Zimbabwe
55 10 A molecular toolkit for high-throughput identification of competitive and effective rhizobial strains
55 11 Future 50 Foods from Knorr
55 12 N2Africa publications
55 13 Report uploaded on the N2Africa website
55 14 Related newsletters
55 15 Announcements
54 1 Introduction
54 2 NoduMax production and sales
54 3 New soybean inoculant registration stems from collaboration between N2Africa and Rizobacter
54 4 Inoculant production and use in Zimbabwe for the last five years
54 5 LEGUME Technology expanding in Africa
54 6 An update on Nitrofix in Malawi
54 7 Secondary benefits of strigolactones from legumes to control striga parasitism in Kenyan cropping systems
54 8 N2Africa publications
54 9 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
54 10 Related newsletters
54 11 Announcement
53 1 Introduction
53 3 Genetic diversity and genetic component associated with high Nitrogen fixation in indigenous rhizobia nodulating soyabean in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
53 4 Assessment of the impact of improved cowpea varieties on women farmers in southern part of Borno State, Nigeria
53 5 Phylogenetic multilocus sequence analysis of indigenous Rhizobia nodulating cowpea in Nigeria
53 6 The effects of rhizobial inoculation, phosphorus application and cowpea-cowpea sequential cropping system on some varieties of cowpea on farmers’ fields in Minna, southern Guinea savanna of Nigeria
53 7 Phylogeny of rhizobia nodulating common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in Ethiopia
53 8 Understanding the influence of barriers on smallholders’ perception and adoption of legume technologies in Ethiopia: A qualitative study
53 9 Perceptions of livestock traders and fatteners on the use of grain legume residues in northern Ghana
53 10 Legume-maize rotation or relay? Options for ecological intensification of smallholder farms in the Guinea savanna of northern Ghana
53 11 Grain legumes within a healthy Ghanaian diet
53 12 Exploring options to enhance biological nitrogen fixation and yield of soyabean and common bean in smallholder farming systems in Rwanda
53 13 Diversity of soyabean root nodule bacteria recovered from Zimbabwean soils
53 14 Participatory approaches to diversification and intensification of crop production on smallholder farms in Malawi
53 15 Former PhD students
53 16 Former MSc students
53 17 European nitrogen fixation conference
53 18 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
53 19 N2Africa publication
53 20 Related newsletters
52 1 Introduction
52 2 Impressions of the N2Africa Annual Planning Meeting and field trip in Rwanda 15-18 May 2018
52 3 A flavour of the N2Africa Annual Planning Meeting in Rwanda
52 4 Field trip: climbing beans in Rwanda
52 5 Reflections from our Rwandan colleagues
52 6 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
52 7 Related newsletters
51 1 Introduction
51 2 Key achievements and learnings available in the N2Africa Annual Report 2017
51 3 Highlights of the Annual Report 2017
51 4 Scaling-up Improved Legume Technologies in Tanzania through the Legume Alliance
51 5 From targeting to tailoring: Baskets of options for legume cultivation among African smallholders
51 6 N2Africa in the news
51 7 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
51 8 Related newsletters
50 1 Introduction
50 2 Time for innovation and change
50 3 An N2Africa Inclusive Partnership Case Example in Ethiopia
50 4 Private-Public Partnership improves farmers’ access to legume fertilizers in northern Ghana
50 5 Indigenous status of rhizobia in Nigeria: Does this aid its symbiotic performance with cowpea?
50 6 My journey into agripreneurship, Borno State, Nigeria
50 7 N2Africa partners develop a strategy to achieve sustainability in Tanzania
50 8 Field learning visits to N2Africa project action sites in eastern Uganda
50 9 N2Africa D.R.C.: training farmers in agribusiness
50 10 Test Marketing BNF Technologies: Individual Customer Preferences in West Kenya Action Site: Status June 2017
50 11 Strides in inoculant production and distribution in Malawi - the story of AISL
50 12 N2Africa experiences: Mozambique
50 13 Knowledge to reach greater heights in Rwanda
50 14 Harnessing N2Africa’s nurtured talents among lead farmers for cost-effective technology dissemination in Zimbabwe
50 15 On Public Private Partnerships and how they can learn about ‘The Market’
50 16 MALAM ISAH WAKILI: An Enthusiastic Cowpea Farmer from Nigeria
50 17 From field to feedback, an update on data flows within N2Africa
50 18 N2Africa in the news
50 19 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
50 20 N2Africa publications
50 21 Related newsletters
50 22 Announcements
49 1 Introduction
49 2 N2Africa DRC exit and continuation by partners
49 3 Partner PAD and N2Africa
49 4 Kenya’s N2Africa actions in 2017 and exit strategy
49 5 MIRCEN will continue its rhizobiology services
49 6 OSSOM’s awesome future
49 7 N2Africa-Malawi: moving forward beyond 2017
49 8 Strides in inoculant production and distribution in Malawi - the story of AISL
49 9 N2Africa experiences: Mozambique
49 10 ACOF and N2Africa: the soyabean partnership
49 11 Strategic scenario to close the gaps identified in Rwanda
49 12 DRD partnering into the future
49 14 Zimbabwe N2Africa project exit strategy
49 15 N2Africa reinforced nutrition education for HIV-AIDS care groups in Zimbabwe
49 13 COCOF and the soyabean value chain
48 1 Introduction
48 2 Dr Endalkachew Wolde-Meskel represented N2Africa at the ICLGG (International Conference on Legumes Genetics and Genomics), 18 – 22 Sep. 2017, Siófok, Hungary
48 3 Presenting my nutrition research within N2Africa at the International Congress of Nutrition
48 4 Open access publishing through Chronos
48 5 Nodumax
48 7 In the shadow of Kilimanjaro; assessment of disease and pest in common bean & maize cropping systems in northern Tanzania
48 9 N2Africa publications
48 10 Reports uploaded on the N2Africa website
48 11 Related newsletters
48 12 Announcement
47 1 Introduction
47 2 Introducing Travis Goron
47 3 Response of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) varieties to rhizobia inoculation in the Sudan and northern Guinea savannas of Nigeria
47 4 Assessment of the impact of improved cowpea varieties on women farmers in southern part of Borno State, Nigeria
47 5 Yield stability studies on soyabean genotypes under Rhizobia inoculation in the Savanna Region of Nigeria
47 6 The effects of inoculation, P application and sequential cropping on cowpea varieties on farmer’s fields in Minna, southern Guinea savanna of Nigeria
47 7 Percentage similarity of indigenous rhizobia across different agro ecological zones in Nigeria
47 9 How do climbing beans fit in farming systems of the eastern highlands of Uganda? Opportunities and trade-offs at farm level
47 11 Understanding GL x GR interaction in common bean and chickpea in Ethiopia
47 12 Maize-grain legume intercropping for enhanced resource use efficiency and crop productivity in the Guinea savanna of northern Ghana
47 13 Enhancing the yield and quality of cowpea fodder through inoculation and phosphorus fertilizer application in northern Ghana
47 14 Exploring options to improve soyabean yields in Mozambique
47 15 Symbiotic performance of soyabean root nodule bacteria (RNB) recovered from Zimbabwe
47 16 Exploring options to enhance biological nitrogen fixation and yield of soyabean and common bean in smallholder farming systems in Rwanda
47 17 Nutritional benefits of improved grain legume cultivation in Ghana and Kenya
47 18 Co-learning using NUANCES-FARMSIM in Kenya and Uganda - A collaboration between Humidtropics, MAIZE and N2Africa
47 19 Understanding the role of Public-Private Partnerships in overcoming institutional barriers to technology adoption
47 20 Participatory approaches to smallholder crop diversification in Malawi
47 21 Related newsletters
47 22 Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
46 1 Introduction
46 2 Introducing Eva Thuijsman
46 3 A farmer with an open mind in Nigeria
46 4 My journey into agripreneurship, Borno State, Nigeria
46 5 MALAM ISAH WAKILI: An Enthusiastic Cowpea Farmer from Nigeria
46 6 Product Testing of BNF Technologies in Kenya
46 7 Educating Tanzanian Smallholder Farmers about Modern Bean Cultivation – What Works Best and at What Costs?
46 8 Partner Profile: Global Change Learning Lab highlights participatory legume-based research in Malawi
46 9 Can you re-close an ecosystem once it’s been opened? Reflections on the role of legumes in central DRC
46 10 A new guide to maize-legume systems
46 11 Thanks to N2Africa Uganda
46 12 Related newsletters
46 13 Announcement
45 1 Introduction
45 2 We have revised the N2Africa website
45 3 A woman business in Rwanda
45 4 Knowledge to reach greater heights in Rwanda
45 5 Farmers’ stories from D.R. Congo
45 6 Increasing legumes harvest with inoculant: The story of AISL, Malawi
45 7 Bean-rhizobia symbiosis in Kenya - snippets from a PhD study funded by N2Africa
45 8 Application of phosphorus fertilizer and rhizobium inoculation improves grain and haulm nutritional values of selected grain legumes in the mixed crop-livestock production system of Ethiopia
45 9 Light and nutrient capture by common bean and maize in the Northern Highlands of Tanzania
45 10 Radio for channelling information
45 11 N2Africa publications
45 12 Other N2Africa activities
45 13 N2Africa in the news
45 14 Related publications
45 15 Related newsletters
45 16 Announcements
44 1 Introduction
44 2 N2Africa in Malawi – achieving sustainable input supply
44 3 A flavour of the N2Africa Annual Planning Meeting and field trip in Uganda
44 4 Key achievements 2016
44 5 Innovation and systematic change towards achieving impact at scale
44 6 Field learning visits to N2Africa project action sites in eastern Uganda
44 7 Private-Public Partnership improves farmers’ access to legume fertilizers in northern Ghana
44 8 Soyabean farmers in Ghana face challenges in the sale of their produce
44 9 N2Africa Ethiopia conducted its Fourth Annual Partners’ Review and Planning Workshop
44 10 Common bean yield potential and yield gaps in Ethiopia and Tanzania
44 11 A paradigm shift from grassroots to agribusiness focus in west Kenya
44 12 Other N2Africa activities
44 13 Related newsletters
44 14 Announcements
43 1 Introduction
43 2 Uganda N2Africa Partners plan for 2017
43 3 Multi-country study describes the distribution inoculation response across Africa
43 4 MSc Internship N2Africa Review
43 5 Rizobacter: Inoculants for Africa
43 6 Tackling some major constraints to climbing bean production in Uganda
43 7 The GALA project: Gender and the Legume Alliance: Integrating multi-media communication approaches and input brokerage
43 8 A day in the life of N2Africa
43 9 N2Africa in the news
43 10 Related newsletters
43 11 Related publications
43 12 Announcements
42 1 Introduction
42 2 Mid-annual and M&E review meeting in Ethiopia
42 3 N2Africa partners develop a strategy to achieve sustainability in Tanzania
42 4 Reflections on training events in Nigeria
42 5 N2Africa as case study for PROIntensAfrica - What role for legumes in sustainable intensification?
42 6 Legume yield gaps in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania
42 7 Groundnut response to calcium and phosphorus fertilizer rates in Tanzania
42 8 Related Publications
42 9 Related newsletters
42 10 Announcement
41 2 Tier 1 countries: First litmus test for the potential of N2Africa
41 3 Highlights from N2Africa in Rwanda
41 4 Plant legumes heal the soil in Malawi
41 5 Testing biological nitrogen fixation of soyabean in partnership with NCBA-CLUSA in Mozambique
41 6 Mid-year 2016 report: Marketing and processing legumes in west Kenya
41 7 BNF technology clearinghouse event in Kenya
41 8 Harnessing N2Africa’s nurtured talents among lead farmers for cost-effective technology dissemination in Zimbabwe
41 11 N2Africa website renewed
41 14 Reports uploaded on the N2Africa website
41 15 N2Africa in the news
41 16 Related news
41 17 Related newsletters
40 1 Charlene McKoin and N2Africa
40 2 Charlene McKoin in Ethiopia
39 1 Introduction
39 2 Dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s in Kenya
39 3 Exploring the genetic diversity of groundnut-nodulating rhizobia in moist and dry savannas in Nigeria for increased symbiotic nitrogen fixation and productivity
39 4 Genetic and symbiotic effectiveness of indigenous rhizobial strains and strategies to maximize the contribution of biological nitrogen fixation on soyabean in Mozambique
39 5 Examining indigenous soyabean rhizobia populations for inoculant use in Zimbabwe
39 6 Response of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) varieties to rhizobia inoculation in the Sudan and northern Guinea savannas of Nigeria
39 7 Assessment of improved cowpea varieties cultivated by women farmers in southern part of Borno State, Nigeria
39 8 Comparing yields and some yield components of common bean from intercropping and rotations with maize in the northern highlands of Tanzania
39 9 Co-design and implementation of improved climbing bean technologies in Uganda
39 10 Common bean seed multiplication and isolation of rhizobia nodulating common bean in Ethiopia
39 11 Genotype x Environment interaction in soyabean breeding under rhizobia inoculation in the savanna region of Nigeria
39 12 Indigenous status of rhizobia in Nigeria: Does this aid its symbiotic performance with cowpea?
39 13 Assessing the need for rhizobial inoculation of cowpea in Nigeria savannas
39 14 Exploring options to enhance biological nitrogen fixation and yield of soyabean and common bean in smallholder farming systems in Rwanda
39 15 Maize-grain legume intercropping: Ecological intensification to enhance resource use efficiency and crop productivity for smallholder farmers in northern Ghana
39 16 Abundance and morphological characteristics of rhizobia nodulating common bean in Uganda
39 17 Grain legume residues: Livestock fatteners’ most vital feed resource in northern Ghana
39 18 Nutritional benefits of improved grain legume cultivation in Ghana and Kenya
38 1 Introduction
38 2 Obituary
38 3 Thanks from youth farmers Nigeria
38 4 N2Africa early impact survey across eight countries
38 5 N2Africa legume varieties spread through communities through farmer-to-farmer diffusion
38 6 N2Africa research design to manage factors affecting adoption of grain legume technologies
38 7 PROIntensAfrica stakeholder workshops to identify priority areas for research in Kenya and Ghana; What role for legumes in sustainable agricultural intensification?
38 8 First place prizes for WeRATE in Kenya - Trophies for ‘Best agro-based processing’ and ‘Best NGO exhibit’
38 9 Recent publications from the Kenya action site
38 10 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
38 11 Related publications
38 12 Related newsletters
38 13 Announcements
37 1 Introduction
37 2 Reflections on legume input supply chains from Louise Sperling
37 3 Fully commercialized BNF technologies in Kenya
37 4 Information plus … the journey towards sustainable change in legume technologies
37 5 SAIRLA Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Research and Learning in Africa; Gender and the Legume Alliance: integrating multi-media communications approaches and input brokerage
37 6 Smart partnership between soyabean seed and inoculant producers in Zimbabwe
37 7 Issues of poor quality seed on the market heat up in Uganda
37 8 Local seed businesses as an alternative route for seed access: Challenges faced in Uganda
37 9 Reviving groundnut production with fertilizers and AflasafeTM in Tanzania
37 11 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
37 12 Related publications
37 13 Related news
37 14 Announcement
36 1 Introduction
36 2 Reflections after the Pan-African Grain Legume & World Cowpea Conference in Zambia - A perspective on value chain partnerships from Rebbie Harawa (AGRA)
36 3 A flavour of the N2Africa Annual Planning Meeting and field trip in Zimbabwe
36 4 N2Africa key facts 2015 and learnings 2016
36 5 N2Africa visiting the inoculant factory in Zimbabwe
36 6 N2Africa agronomy trials and farmers’ recommendations in Tanzania
36 7 Improving traditional storage systems of grain legume residues for livestock feeding in Ghana
36 8 School Feeding Program in Ghana - Caterers and cooks enriching school meals with soyabean recipes
36 9 Women’s position, dietary nutrient adequacy and nutritional status of children in Ghana
36 10 The association between the diversity of crop production and nutritional indicators of rural households in Ghana
36 11 An erratum of sorts
36 12 N2Africa in the news
36 14 Related publications
36 15 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
36 16 Related newsletters
36 17 Announcements
35 1 Introduction
35 2 Obituary
35 3 Field visit in Ethiopia by the Project Director, BMGF and ILRI’s Director General Representative in Ethiopia
35 4 Exploring variability and options for improving the feeding value of legume crop residues for ruminants in small-holder crop-livestock systems of Ethiopia
35 5 Impact of P fertilizer and inoculant application on feed quality of grain legume residues for livestock in mixed crop-livestock production system in Ethiopia
35 6 Finding niches for legumes in smallholder farming systems
35 8 Third Annual Partners Review and Planning Workshop at ILRI-Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
35 9 N2Africa project Nigeria: Reflections on 2015 Season
35 10 CropLife Nigeria assesses contract sprayers in Borno State
35 11 N2Africa Borno State: Youth Agripreneur activities
35 12 IITA Special issue on Youth Agripreneurs
35 13 NoduMax in 2015
35 14 N2Africa in the news
35 15 Publications
35 16 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
35 17 Related newsletters
35 18 Announcements
34 1 Introduction
34 2 N2Africa Learning loops 2.0. – faster data flows with tablets
34 3 Borno’s women increasingly benefit from legume production.
34 4 N2Africa publication: Understanding variability in soybean yield and response to P-fertilizer and rhizobium inoculants on farmers’ fields in northern Nigeria
34 5 Publication on shelf-life of inoculants in the African Crop Science Journal
34 6 N2Africa in the news
34 7 Reports and other output uploaded on the N2Africa website
34 8 Related newsletters
34 9 Announcements
33 1 Introduction
33 2 On Public Private Partnerships and how they can learn about ‘The Market’
33 3 Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) for Sustainable Input Business: The Case of Menagesha Biotech Industry in Ethiopia
33 4 N2Africa and Feed the Future Nigeria Livelihoods Project Partnership: A working collaboration
33 5 Towards a public private partnership for grain legumes: A case of World Vision Uganda
33 6 Tanzania Legume Alliance
33 7 N2Africa D.R.C.: training farmers in agribusiness
33 8 N2Africa holds workshop on data collection for university staff, students, extension workers
33 9 N2Africa Pushes for Improved Soyabean Technologies at Malawi Agriculture Fair
33 10 Kick-starting commercial soyabean farming with Teso Farmers in Busia, Kenya
33 11 PhD update: Response of Groundnut varieties to Rhizobia inoculation in the Sudan and northern Guinea savannas of Nigeria
33 12 Introducing Minke Stadler
33 13 Message from Pamela Anderson, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on the launch of AgriKnowledge
33 14 N2Africa in the news
33 15 N2Africa publications
33 16 Reports uploaded on the N2Africa website
33 17 Related publications
33 18 Announcements
32 1 Introduction
32 2 Evaluation of competitiveness for nodulation of Phaseolus vulgaris L. in Kenyan rhizobial strains
32 3 Progress Report on PhD Studies Aliyu Anchau; Topic: Exploring the Genetic Diversity of Groundnut-nodulating Rhizobia in Moist and Dry Savannas of Nigeria for increased Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and Productivity
32 4 Genetic and Symbiotic Effectiveness of Indigenous Rhizobial Strains and Strategies to Maximize the Contribution of Biological Nitrogen Fixation on Soyabean in Mozambique
32 5 Does the interaction of the indigenous and exotic rhizobia in contrasting Zimbabwean soil conditions result in superior isolates worthy of the inoculant strain title?
32 6 Impact of Improved Cowpea Technology on Women Farmers in Southern Borno State, Nigeria.
32 7 Studying the benefits of intensifying common bean cultivation on smallholder farms in the Northern Highlands of Tanzania
32 8 Update on PhD research – Adoption and adaptation of improved climbing bean technologies in Uganda
32 9 Legume genotypes x rhizobium strains interaction in common bean and chickpea
32 10 Nigerian PhD Research update
32 11 Exploring options to enhance biological nitrogen fixation and yield of soyabean and common bean in smallholder farming systems of Rwanda
32 12 Effect of intercropping patterns on crop productivity across fields of different soil fertility in northern Guinea and Sudan savannah agroecological zones of Ghana
32 13 Common bean and response to rhizobial strains on different soil types in Uganda
32 14 Grain legume residues as a livestock feed resource for smallholders in northern Ghana
32 15 Crowdsourcing for agricultural data collection
32 16 What about N2Africa and the diet of this 2 year old Ghanaian girl Talata*? An update of my PhD research
32 17 Introducing Mr Shakiru Quadri, Youth Agri-preneur Facilitator for N2Africa-Borno State
32 18 N2Africa features as case study within the PROIntensAfrica project
32 19 Other newsletters
31 1 Introduction
31 2 Foundation Officers Visit N2Africa Activities in northern Tanzania
31 4 Peter Thorne taking over N2Africa Advisory Committee tasks from Alan Duncan
31 4 Introducing Ibironke Popoola
31 5 The missing link
31 6 Leaving the mines for agriculture
31 7 Do Ghanaian farmers produce what they need to eat?
31 8 Improved access to tools and guidelines for data collection: Get that overview!
31 9 N2Africa joins multi-stakeholder partnership to support soyabean sector development in Tanzania
31 10 BIOFIX and LEGUMEFiX inoculant products now registered in Tanzania
31 11 News from Legume Technology
31 12 WeRATE R4D Platform Shines at the Agriculture Society of Kenya Kakamega Show
31 13 Watch out for “Predatory Open Access Journals”!
31 14 2016 PanAfrican & World Cowpea Conference Update
31 14 Report uploaded on the N2Africa website
31 15 Free online Summer course of the Future of Crop Production
31 16 ADVANCE II Newsletter
31 17 Humidtropics Newsletter April-June 2015
31 18 ECOLEG: Ecosystemic Services Of Legumes In Agro-Ecosystems
31 19 Tropical Soybean Information Portal and Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL) June Newsletter
30 1 Introduction
30 2 From field to feedback, an update on data flows within N2Africa
30 3 Options for climbing bean cultivation in Uganda – A detailed farm characterization
30 4 Cowpea fritters a new delicacy with N2Africa farmers in Zimbabwe
30 5 Agriculture Field day exposes flaws and solutions
30 6 N2Africa interventions that improve agricultural productivity in Malawi
30 7 Expanding soyabean cultivation to Zambezi Valley in Mozambique
30 8 Visit to Southern Highlands of Tanzania to strengthen partnership and explore areas of collaboration among soyabean value chain actors
30 9 Improved Early Education N2Africa Style
30 10 Hannah Boughton – a student studying for an MSc in Environmental Studies, Antioch University, New Hampshire, USA wrote to us “The N2Africa program was a great inspiration for me…
30 11 MOOC Summercourse
30 12 N2Africa in the news
30 13 Reports uploaded on the N2Africa website
30 15 ADVANCE II Newsletter
30 16 IFDC training program “Linking Farmers to Markets in Africa"
30 17 Legume Perspectives issue 6
29 1 Introduction
29 2 N2Africa Partnerships
29 3 N2Africa-Ethiopia held its 2015 Annual Planning & the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Validation Workshop
29 4 2015 Annual planning workshop of N2Africa, Ghana
29 5 Theory of change and planning workshop held for Uganda Partners
29 6 MSc research in Kapchorwa district Uganda
29 7 N2Africa-Ethiopia Conducted Gender Training Workshop with the aim of Mainstreaming Gender into Legume Value Chain
29 8 Co-design of improved climbing bean technologies in Uganda and Tanzania
29 9 Certificate granted to N2Africa for its roles and partnership in “research and development”
29 10 N2Africa won an award as outstanding nutrition-sensitive scaling agriculture project!
29 12 Ethiopian case study of adoption domains for N2africa published in the Atlas of African Agriculture Research and Development
29 13 Cowpea-maize relay cropping. A method for sustainable agricultural intensification in northern Ghana?
29 14 It’s all about beans... Rwanda even released a song
29 15 IITA news on N2Africa activities in Tanzania
29 16 Report Borno Youths training
29 17 2016 PanAfrican & World Cowpea Conference
28 2 Introduction
28 3 Field visit during the N2Africa Annual Planning Meeting
28 4 Finally N2Africa Master Plans are ready for use
28 5 The use of tablets and Short Message System (SMS) for data collection: Demonstration from case study in N2Africa-Ethiopia
28 6 Training Youths from Borno State, Nigeria on Agribusiness
28 7 Effect of cattle manure, mineral fertilizer and Rhizobium inoculation on climbing bean production in Burera district, Rwanda
28 8 N2Africa in the news
28 9 Using the search function on the N2Africa website
28 10 Product development of NoduMax soyabean inoculant continues
28 11 Research prize for DR Congo at the 16th conference of African Association of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Rabat Morocco
28 12 N2Africa at the annual meeting of the CGIAR Consortium for Spatial Information
28 13 Visit N2Africa Project Coordinator to DR Congo
28 14 Soyabean grain yield and seed quality under rain fed conditions in Sierra Leone
28 15 Integrated management of cowpea insect pests in Sierra Leone
28 16 Autumn debate of the Wagenings Journalists’s cafe ‘the correct multimedia mix’
28 17 New training materials
28 18 International Conference on Building a New Generation of Agricultural Scientists” held at Kenyatta University, Nairobi-Kenya (1st - 5th December, 2014)
28 19 MSc research in the Salima District, Malawi: Thesis report
27 1 Introduction
27 2 N2Africa Leadership Team & Country Coordinators gathered at WUR for Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop, 18-22 August 2014
27 3 Exploring the use of tablets for data collection in N2Africa
27 4 Update of N2Africa project activities in Ghana
27 5 Update from Nigeria
27 6 IITA Youth Agripreneurs and N2Africa flag off 3-week intensive training for Borno State youths (#SBYOUHT2014)
27 7 N2Africa-Ethiopia, update on the season’s activities
27 8 Uganda Progress
27 9 Smallholder farmer’s brace for improved productivity of groundnut and market access in Uganda
27 10 N2Africa and AfricaRice working to diversify and intensify the rice-based cropping systems of Kilombero valley in Tanzania
27 11 N2Africa DRC forms more partnerships and continues Rhizobiology activities
27 12 Results from demonstration plots on inoculation of climbing bean combined with different methods of staking. in Rwanda
27 13 Kenya Update: Now operating within Tier 1
27 14 Mozambique update
27 15 Malawi, May – August 2014: Progress with implementation
27 16 Experts advise the Malawian government to give grain legumes a central role in the Farm Input Subsidy Program
27 17 Agricultural Shows and Nutrition workshops major activities during the off-season in Zimbabwe
27 18 Article published: Soybean rust: A major threat to soybean production in Tanzania
27 19 Maureen Waswa et al. article published: Identifying elite rhizobia for soybean (Glycine max) in Kenya
27 20 Samuel Mutuma et al. article published: Smallholder farmers’ use and profitability of legume inoculants in western Kenya
27 21 MSc research in the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania: Thesis reports
27 22 Gender report available via the N2Africa website
26 1 Introduction
26 2 Obituary Rev. George Kivandah
26 3 New Monitoring & Evaluation coordinator
26 4 N2Africa ventures into Borno State, Nigeria
26 5 N2Africa wins top prize in the Harvesting Nutrition Contest
26 6 N2Africa Master Plans: Creating synergies in a decentralized initiative
26 7 New extension materials ready!
26 8 Review of conditioning factors and constraints to legume adoption and their management in Phase II of N2Africa
26 9 NoduMax: a new legume inoculant in West Africa
26 10 PhD story Michael Kermah: Exploring opportunities for sustainable intensification of grain legumes towards improving crop productivity, food security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in northern Ghana
26 11 Presenting the first six months report of Phase II
26 12 Other N2Africa reports published recently
26 13 Humidtropics conference
25 1 Introduction
25 2 Fred Kanampiu to join N2Africa as Project Coordinator
25 3 N2Africa planning meeting for Tier 1 countries in Nairobi
25 4 Introducing the Country Coordinators of the Tier 1 countries
25 5 N2Africa/phase II DR Congo activities have already begun
25 6 N2Africa Malawi
25 7 N2Africa in Zimbabwe
25 8 N2Africa in Mozambique
25 9 Kenya update
25 10 Rwanda update
25 11 Exploring the genetic diversity of groundnut-nodulating rhizobia in moist and dry savannas of Nigeria for increased symbiotic nitrogen fixation and productivity
25 12 Symbiotic effectiveness of indigenous Bradyrhizobium strains and strategies to maximize the contribution of Biological Nitrogen Fixation on soyabean in Mozambique
25 13 Does the interaction of the indigenous and exotic rhizobia in contrasting Zimbabwean soil conditions result in superior individuals worthy of selection as inoculant strains
25 14 Investigating Suboptimal Nitrogen Fixation in Phaseolus vulgaris
25 15 Options to enhance biological nitrogen fixation by soyabean and common bean in smallholder farming systems of Rwanda
25 16 The Scaling Seeds and Technologies Partnership: Opportunities for collaboration with N2Africa
25 17 N2Africa-Ethiopia Annual Planning Workshop, 15- 16 April
25 18 A quantitative food consumption survey of infants and young children in rural Ghana: a first step in linking agriculture and nutrition
25 19 Launch meetings in the Core Countries
25 20 Briefs on Innovation Platforms
24 1 Introduction
24 2 Introduction of new N2Africa coordinators
24 3 Five N2Africa PhD Scholarships available
24 4 N2Africa was officially launched in Uganda on January 16th
24 5 N2Africa project launched in Tanzania in February
24 6 Innovation Village about N2Africa in Tanzania
24 7 N2Africa launch Ethiopia
24 8 N2Africa Phase II Launch in Ghana
24 9 Brief story of N2Africa Phase II launch in Nigeria
24 10 N2Africa Phase II launched in DR Congo
24 11 Murdoch University poster award 2013 for Aliyu Anchau Abdullahi
24 12 MSc research Usambara Mountains, Tanzania: Continued story parts 3 and 4
24 13 Africa Business Leadership Training Center offers online and distance learning certificate courses
24 14 Literature study by the Virtual Fertilizer Research Center (VFRC)
23 1 Introduction
23 2 N2Africa position announcements
23 3 MSc students doing field research in the Usambara Mountains, northern Tanzania
23 4 From humble beginnings: LegumeTechnology UK Ltd.
23 5 Some similarities between the development of the inoculant market in Uruguay and Africa
23 6 Symbiotic effectiveness of indigenous Bradyrhizobia strains and strategies to maximize the contribution of Biological Nitrogen Fixation on soyabean in Mozambique
23 7 Announcement 16th conference of the AABNF, 2-6 November 2014
22 8 CADS partnership with N2Africa in Zimbabwe
22 7 N2Africa Social Media Communications Strategy
22 6 Early impacts of the N2Africa project
22 5 Targeting legume technologies
22 4 Rounding up Phase I of N2Africa, Hilton Nairobi, 4 November 2013
22 3 N2Africa Phase II
22 2 Message from Seattle
22 1 Introduction
22 1 STOP PRESS!!
22 9 SG2000 partnership with N2Africa in Nigeria
22 10 Drawing lessons from the variability in climbing bean productivity in Rwanda
22 11 N2Africa proposes standards for inoculant quality
22 12 MSc thesis on quality control of legume inoculant on bean and soyabean in East and Central Africa: Isaac Balume from DRC
22 13 N2Africa and its impact on human nutrition
22 14 SDSN report on Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
22 15 Announcement IFDC international training program
21 1 Introduction
21 2 N2Africa Writeshop, Wageningen, 21-24 May 2013
21 2 Use of inoculants to improve soyabean yield and Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Malawi
21 2 Going beyond PREA (Participatory Research and Extension Approach)
21 2 N2Africa Ethiopia kick-off
21 3 On-farm evaluation of the response of chickpea to inoculation and P fertilization in southern Ethiopia
21 3 Hawassa University in Ethiopia identified effective strains for pulses
21 4 Characterization reports Tanzania and Ethiopia available
21 4 CRS convene stakeholders in soyabean sub-sector to discuss soyabean variety and seed issues in Tanzania
21 5 New Autoclave installed at Legume Inoculant Factory in Marondera, Zimbabwe
21 18 Farming systems course announcement
21 17 Inoculating legumes: a practical guide. Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC)
21 17 6th International Nitrogen Conference (N2013): ”Just Enough N: Perspectives on how to get there for “too much” and "too little" Regions”
21 16 New International Course on Agriculture Nutrition Linkages
20 2 Prem and COMPRO
20 1 Prem Warrior and N2Africa
19 1 Introduction
19 2 Dr H. D. L. (Tom) Corby, 1913–2013
19 2 Obituary announcement D.K.C. Dhiliwayo
19 3 Triple layer hermitic bags is a potential solution to storage pests in Rwanda
19 3 Women farmers engage in production and distribution of Soyabean seed in South Kivu, DR Congo
19 3 Resignation from CIAT N2Africa DRC
19 4 Activités de diffusion en masse et approche agriculture-élevage dans N2Africa au Sud Kivu
19 4 Large-scale dissemination activities and integrated crop – livestock systems in N2Africa, South Kivu (translation of the French article above)
19 6 Engineers meet scientists to design an inoculum plant
19 6 Rhizobium inoculant production in the N2Africa soil microbiology laboratory at Kalambo in the Sud Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo
19 6 Promising elite rhizobium strains from Kivu, DRC, isolated and tested
19 16 Scientific seminar to discuss and present the outcomes of Phase I of N2Africa
19 17 Conference announcements
19 18 Bulletin of Tropical Legumes
18 1 Introduction
18 1 Obituary announcement
18 2 N2Africa plans for 2013
18 2 N2Africa Rhizobiology Activities at Kalambo, DR Congo
18 3 Soya production: The Mozambique Experience
18 3 N2Africa-ADVANCE partnership enhances soyabean-rhizobium inoculants technology dissemination – Part 2
18 17 Conference announcement
18 4 Planting time: a crucial management decision for the cultivation of soyabean in the humid tropics
18 4 MFAGRO Farmers: A Stronger Voice in Vihiga County, Kenya
18 4 N2 Africa starts activities in Uganda
18 5 N2Africa Planning Workshop - Tanzania, 11-12 February 2011
18 5 Learning from Farmer Managed Soyabean Trials in Kenya
18 6 Limitations in the Production of Legume crops in Zimbabwe
18 6 The Crawford Fund Master Class on Rhizobiology
18 16 MSc, BSC, Internship reports freely available on the N2Africa internet
18 8 January 2013 episode of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation podcast “Inside the Gates”
18 17 Links to video on women in extension
17 1 Introduction
17 2 Impressions from the project coordinator of his visits to the countries where N2Africa is implemented
17 3 N2Africa-ADVANCE partnership enhances soyabean-rhizobium inoculants technology dissemination – Part 1
17 4 Legumes varietal selection is critical for effective marketing: Case study for Mudzi and Guruve districts of Zimbabwe
17 5 Kenyan Farmer Delegation Generates Understanding and Good Will
17 5 Soyabean Processing Windfall in West Kenya
16 1 Introduction
16 2 N2Africa representation at the Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa: from microbes to markets Conference, Nairobi 2012
16 2 Honing in on Dissemination and Delivery (D&D) as a research theme
16 3 Exploring opportunities for N2Africa in Tanzania
16 3 Biologial Nitrogen Fixation - N2Africa in DR Congo “ from despair to hope”
16 4 N2Africa project offers hope for Sierra Leone farmers
16 4 It was worth the ride: A Transcription of Partner’s Visit to N2Africa Liberia Project Site
16 5 Greenhouse commissioning and commencement of greenhouse work in Zimbabwe
16 6 Announcement Pedometrics 2013 conference in Nairobi
16 6 Announcement First International Conference on Global Food Security
15 1 Introduction
15 1 Julieta Mario and her mother Carlota Sabonete – Leading N2Africa Farmers in Mozambique
15 2 Latest Exposure
15 2 Monkey Business
15 3 Malawi’s President Joyce Banda meets N2Africa
15 5 Ilse de Jager introducing a new discipline into the N2Africa project
15 5 N2Africa Project Offers Hope For Sierra Leone Farmers
15 5 Role model farmer shows a way for adoption of legume technologies in Western Kenya
15 6 Conference announcements
15 6 TechnoServe Edition 9 of the Boletim Soja
15 6 Link to New Agriculturist: Perspective Ken Giller
14 1 Introduction
14 2 Alastair Simmons, N2Africa’s Communication, Knowledge and Project Management Officer and currently the acting Project Coordinator, comments on the project moving forward
14 3 Towards getting more legumes in smallholder farms of Western Kenya
14 2 N2Africa Malawi bids farewell to Joseph Mhango
14 3 Exploring potential of tillage methods on combating mid-season drought in soybean in West Kenya
14 3 Kenyan Outreach Update: Breakthroughs in many areas
14 4 News from DRC
14 4 N2Africa complementing “One Cow for Poor Family” Program in Rwanda
14 4 N2Africa research meeting – Zimbabwe
14 5 Voices from the field
14 5 Comment peut être la journée ordinaire d’un partenaire de N2Africa? / What does an N2Africa participant do on a “normal N2Africa day”
14 5 ISFM Conference
14 5 The African Soil Health Consortium
13 1 Introduction
13 1 N2Africa featured in Nature
13 1 Genetically modified soyabean: a viable option for smallholders in Africa?
13 2 N2Uganda
13 2 Legume production in Zimbabwe: An update
13 3 Will the dry bones live again? Insights from the N2Africa/IFAD field day in Mudzi district, Zimbabwe.
13 3 Forage legumes in Zimbabwe – a brief summary
13 4 George Mkhwamba – One of N2Africa’s Leading Farmers in Malawi
13 5 IITA extends N2Africa to Sierra Leone
13 5 See to my strain
13 6 Progress N2Africa in Ethiopia
12 1 Kenton Dashiell is moving on
12 1 Introduction
12 1 An update on M&E within N2Africa
12 2 Establishment of rhizobial inoculant production factories in Africa
12 2 Time for innovation and change
12 4 Greta van den Brand joined the N2Africa team in Wageningen
12 4 N2Africa – Guidelines for Co-authorship of Publications
12 6 TLII Report: Tropical Grain Legumes in Africa and South Asia
12 6 Barriers to seed trade between COMESA countries lifted
12 6 International conference Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa: From Microbes to Markets (ISFM Africa)
11 1 Introduction
11 2 N2Africa Nigeria hosts Bill Gates
11 3 Extending N2Africa Activities in DRC, Liberia and Sierra Leone through a grant from the Howard G. Buffet Foundation
11 4 Supplementary Grant to N2Africa from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
11 5 New people joined the N2Africa project team in Wageningen
11 6 Human capacity building project on legume sciences
11 6 Meeting on N2Africa project finances at Wageningen
10 1 N2Africa develops best-fit agronomic practices for grain legumes in Africa
10 2 Soybeans responds to rhizobium inoculation in DR Congo
10 5 Lessons learned and way forward in N2Africa’s agronomy work
10 2 Adaptive research to understand bean production niches in Western Kenya
10 3 Agronomy trials in Zimbabwe: results achieved and the way forward
10 4 Inoculation and staking systems of climbing bean in Kenya
10 1 Introduction
9 2 Progress in soyabean marketing by N2Africa in Kenya
9 2 Major players of grain legume value chain in Nigeria identified
9 2 Linking farmers to markets: Experiences from groundnuts farmers in Mudzi district, Zimbabwe
9 3 Putting Nitrogen Fixation to Work for Smallholder Farmers in Africa: Rapid Appraisal Value Chain Surveys in Rwanda and South Kivu, DRC
9 3 Rural farmers display value added products at Processed Products Fair, Harare, Zimbabwe
9 3 La diffusion des variétés améliorées pour l’amélioration des condition de vie des agriculteurs au Sud Kivu
9 4 N2Africa participates in the eighth National Agriculture Fair
9 4 Promoting market linkages between N2Africa farmers and legume buyers in Malawi
9 4 Response to WOCAN report ‘Enhancing gender responsiveness in Putting Nitrogen to Work for Smallholder Farmers in Africa (N2Africa)’
9 4 Gender research in N2Africa - going beyond target numbers for reaching women
9 5 Rhizobial Bio-prospecting in East and Central Africa
9 7 Video from Cote d’Ivoire by Adako Moudiongui
9 1 Introduction
8 2 N2Africa enhancing laboratory capacity in Africa
8 3 N2AFRICA Rhizobiology Activities at ISAR, Rwanda: June 2011
8 4 Legume Inoculant Technology and Quality Control Procedures Workshop
8 5 Emerging challenges in cross-border movement of inoculants in sub-Saharan Africa
8 6 N2Africa consultant visits the inoculant factory at Marondera, Zimbabwe
8 6 N2Africa goes global in search for high quality inoculants
8 6 Inoculation and fertilizer blending affects nodulation of climbing bean and soyabean in Kenya
8 8 Sharing highlights from the revised Agricultural Development strategy of the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation
8 6 Samson Foli on working visit to Nigeria
8 9 The value of Inoculants
8 10 Soyabean best practices checklist in English and Swahili
8 1 Introduction
7 2 Research, dissemination and monitoring and evaluation teams to work together to understand applicability of N2Africa technologies in heterogeneous conditions of smallholder farmers
7 4 Detailed farm characterisations to explore the adoption potential of grain legumes in Malawi
7 3 Gender research in N2Africa - going beyond target numbers for reaching women
7 5 Understanding the role of legumes and their significance in Biological Nitrogen Fixation (BNF) in smallholder farming systems of Zimbabwe
7 1 Introduction
7 6 Boletim Informativo SOJA - nr.3
6 2 N2Africa communication
6 5 Field days in Malawi
6 4 Rapport de la formation sur les droits de la femme en matiere d’acces a la propriete fonciere et aux autres ressorces liees a la terre, par COCOF dans le cadre du projet N2Africa
6 6 Field Days in Zimbabwe
6 3 Participatory evaluation of an agronomic trial, a farmer field day organized by Development Rural Durable (DRD)
6 8 Dissemination Update from West Kenya
6 11 Nigeria Holds Annual Planning Meeting
6 10 N2Africa Ghana Planning Meeting Held
6 9 In Zimbabwe, Isaac Chabata has recently joined the N2Africa team as Farm Liaison Officer.
6 12 TechnoServe Boletim Informativo Soja-nr.2
6 7 N2Africa partnering with ISFM
6 1 Introduction
5 1 Annual N2Africa Planning Meeting in Harare
5 2 Results from the N2Africa baseline survey in East and Central Africa
5 1 Rhizobiology Manual Almost Ready
5 2 Soyabean inoculation responses from the 2010 season in West Africa
5 6 CIALCA and CGIAR Consortium Research Programme on the Humid Tropics announce a Conference on the 'Challenges and Opportunities for Agricultural Intensification of the Humid Highland Systems', Kigali Rwanda 24-27 October 2011
5 3 Ensuring of understanding the status of value chains of our four major crops
5 4 Zimbabwe farmers growing soybean
5 5 TL-II and improved bean varieties
4 2 Inoculation increases farmers’ soyabean yields in East and Central Africa
4 5 N2Africa West Africa hub holds laboratory training in rhizobiology skills
4 4 Trying to understand how farmers grow beans in Rwanda
4 5 More staff have joined the N2Africa team in West Africa
4 8 N2Africa kicks-off planting season in Malawi
4 3 Partners of N2Africa in Rwanda
4 3 Activities for N2Africa in the DRC from February 2010 until February 2011
4 1 Introduction
3 1 First year of the project
3 2 N2Africa moving to scale in 2011
3 3 The 15th African Association of Biological Nitrogen Fixation Conference to be held in Nairobi
3 4 Call for news items for the N2Africa Podcaster
2 6 Farmer to farmer learning
2 1 N2Africa Newsletter named the N2Africa Podcaster
2 1 “Black medicine” in West Africa
2 3 EMBRAPA, Brazil to support N2Africa
2 4 Rust resistant varieties of soyabean bred by Seed Co in Zimbabwe
2 5 Training of Trainers in Zimbabwe
2 6 Training of Trainers in Malawi
2 7 Detailed farm analyses for ex-ante impact assessment of N2Africa technologies have started
2 8 Sad News
2 10 Advanced Course on Nitrogen Fixation held together with Wageningen University Graduate Schools
2 2 Training: advancing Technical Skills in Rhizobiology and MSc and PhD Fellowships
2 9 N2Africa featured in New Agriculturalist
1 2 News from East and Central Africa
1 4 Capacity Building and Training
1 2 Name Competition
1 1 All systems go!!!
1 5 N2Africa Planning Meeting – Zimbabwe, 14-15 June 2010
1 2 Nice weather all year round
1 3 Wageningen University Launches Project To Improve Food Production and Soil Fertility in Africa (the initial press release of N2Africa)
1 7 REAL RESULTS, RIGHT NOW
N2Africa Video : Development to research to transformation - Malawi March 2012
UPDATE: "Future Food Production: Crops" offered as SUMMER COURSE
Job Opening at CIAT: Research Coordinator for the N2Africa Project
Second Announcement Conference: Integrated Soil Fertility Management in Africa: From Microbes to Markets (ISFM Africa). Nairobi, Kenya from 22-27 October 2012. (Updated 24 April 2012)