• Tropical Grasslands Newsletter no.

• “Farmers’ use and adaptation of improved climbing bean production practices in the highlands of Uganda”. 2017. Ronner, E., Descheemaeker, K., Almekinders, C.J.M., Ebanyat, P., Giller, K.E. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment;
• “Options for improving the yield and nutritive value of maize and grain legume residues for ruminants in East African farming systems”. 2018.

• The N2Africa Vimeo videos that were on the N2Africa website have been made available as mp4 files.

For those who read Dutch: The Belgian EOS Tracé published “Afrika ontdekt de kracht van kikkererwten”

Fred Kanampiu selected this because as a learning grant, it is key to ensure timely feedback to generate and document learning to steer the implementation of the project. Having an up to date information from the field has contributed to the learning process of the project. This article appeared first in Podcaster 30, March and April 2015.

Theresa Ampadu Boakye, our M&E specialist, selected this article (Podcaster 46, June 2017) because it indicates that projects can do random implementation and still have adoption; meaning, guided selection of project beneficiaries (e.g. selecting beneficiaries who grew legumes only to have participated in N2Africa) will always leave out enthusiastic ones like Malam who would have adopted but would not have had the chance had it not been the project’s approach to expand to non-cowpea areas. There should always be room to include such.

Edward Baars chose this as it was a concept that slowly grew into the project by examples towards the capacity of the country teams to replicate and build upon, it also worked well in synergy with Monitoring Learning and Evaluation (MEL), whilst besides showing its capacity to reach output targets, it opened interest to research on its effectiveness and sustainability which in 2018 is a main activity for this learning grant project. First appeared in Podcaster 33, September and October 2015.

Regis Chikowo’s reason to select this article from Podcaster 41, October and November 2016: “This speaks directly to what is going on now that active funding has ended in Zimbabwe (N2Africa Phase III)”

Speciose Kantengwa chose this article for the following reason: It illustrates how knowledge can be a starting point for change It shows sustainability of N2Africa approach: lead farmers in the dissemination of BNF technologies, a lead farmer converted into an agro dealer selling agriculture inputs and providing technical messages to community members. First appeared in Podcaster 45, April-May 2017.

Wilson Leonardo motivated his choice for this article from Podcaster 49, December 2017: This is a great example showing how results from N2Africa Phase I were used in the second phase. It also shows how sustainability issues ware embedded during our intervention in Phase II.

The N2Africa project in Mozambique on its second phase focused on scaling out the legume technologies proven under phase I using a “business-led” approach. The women empowering was one of the main objectives. We showed that women can benefits and make profit with legumes.