N2Africa-Ethiopia annual planning workshop was successfully held on 15-16 April, 2014 at ILRI Addis campus. The conference was made in ILRI’s conference hall with well-furnished display technology which exited the participants. A total of 41 participants from national and regional research institutes, Universities, Ministry of Agriculture, ILRI, CAFS, National Soil, Private sectors, and invited guest from ICRISAT and NGOs have attended the conference. Dr.

Agricultural models used to analyse and re-design farming systems using multi-objective optimisation do not take into account household nutrition needs, while the development of dietary guidelines do not take into account the local food systems and agricultural productivity. Combination of agricultural productivity and nutritional needs may result in farm designs that optimize nutrition.

In the previous Podcaster we already informed you about the Phase II launch meetings for the Core Countries Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria. The workshop report of the launch meeting held in Tanzania is now available via the N2Africa website.

Several briefs on innovation platforms have been developed by ILRI as part of their contribution to the Humid Tropics CRP. The briefs can be downloaded from the ILRI website.