Future 50 Foods from Knorr

Among other duties, I serve as a member of the Sustainable Sourcing Advisory Board of Unilever and through this I was asked to review this report. I was delighted to do so, as I find it an important initiative to broaden the range of crops commonly used in foods. Of course I was not surprised to see that several legumes were selected by the Knorr team and the scientists who advised them.

Introduction

I’ve been experiencing some pretty extreme changes in temperature recently – in early March I was in southern Mali with temperatures around  35o C and then in the snow in Norway the next week with N2Africa colleagues for a RoundTable on Sustainable Soyabean.

Announcements

The 21st International Conference on Nitrogen Fixation (ICNF 2019) will be held on October 10-15, 2019, on the campus of Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China. This conference series has been ongoing for over 40 years and is a preeminent international forum for scientific discussion of nitrogen fixation. Find HERE the 1st round announcement of the ICNF 2019 in attachment.

N2Africa legacy in Zimbabwe

The N2Africa project was implemented in Zimbabwe between 2009-2017. The project engaged smallholder farming communities on intensified grain legume integration in their farming systems across eight districts.

To what extent is there still a (knowledge) network around legumes and nitrogen fixation active in your country?

This is addressed under the other questions below.

N2Africa legacy in Rwanda

To what extent is there still a (knowledge) network around legumes and nitrogen fixation active in your country?

N2Africa legacy in Mozambique

To what extent is there still a (knowledge) network around legumes and nitrogen fixation active in your country?

Former N2Africa partners remain engaged in disseminating the N2Africa technologies to farmers mainly through development projects.

To what extent are private sector and/or NGOs still selling/ using / promoting “N2Africa technologies”? Can farmers readily access seeds, inoculants, legume-specific fertilizers?

N2Africa legacy in Malawi

To what extent is there still a (knowledge) network around legumes and nitrogen fixation active in your country?

N2Africa legacy in Kenya

To what extent is there still a (knowledge) network around legumes and nitrogen fixation active in your country?

N2Africa legacy in DRC

To what extent is there still a (knowledge) network around legumes and nitrogen fixation active in your country?

The Sustainable Soyabean Roundtable in Oslo, Norway

The Minister of Food and Agriculture of Ghana has requested N2Africa and Yara to boost soyabean production in northern Ghana as part of the “Planting for Food and Jobs” initiative. Here we report on progress.