N2Africa is approaching the end of Phase II for the core countries while the Tier 1 countries phased out at the end of 2017. The N2Africa Annual Planning Meeting held in the Grand Legacy Hotel in Kigali (15-18 May) focused on exploring opportunities for Core and Tier 1 countries to continue their catalytic roles in providing technical backup to other projects and to stimulate diffusion of N2Africa technologies. Discussions were centred around the question “how can N2Africa reach 80% of the farmers who would benefit from N2Africa technologies?”.

In the morning of May 17^th buses took all participants of the Annual Planning Meeting through a hilly landscape to two sites in Northern Rwanda that were first approached by N2Africa back in 2010.

Gahunga action site

Introduction
The last annual meeting of Phase II of N2Africa project was held in Rwanda, in the period of 15 to 18 May, 2018 at Grand Legacy hotel in Kigali. The focus of this review and planning meeting was to reflect on achievements made and the future role for N2Africa based on what we have learned and to explore opportunities and barriers for reaching millions of smallholder farmers in Africa.

N2Africa Review of policies relating to legume intensification in N2Africa countries.

• CABI News: Multi-media campaign helps improve food security in Tanzania;
• Tropical Grasslands Newsletter no.

• FAO news items: Family farmers must remain central to agroecology scale-up, Agroecology can help change the world’s food production for the better, and Hunger uptick in Africa can be reversed;
• ICRISAT news: African smallholders can double their yields with half the water;
• IITA bulletin 2425 with a story o

• N2Africa poster - general information

Article in the Ethiopian Herald: Over 50,000 smallholders benefit from inoculation technology.