Jeanmarie Sanginga chose this article as his favorite because this farmer’s initiative has led some young people to embark on agriculture with small initiatives for income as manufacture of animal feed of which soya is the most important element as source of protein; Soya milk and soya oil! This article first appeared in Podcaster 33, October 2015.
Lloyd Phiphira chose this article from Podcaster 49, December 2017, as this is one the positive stories in as far as N2Africa work in Malawi is concerned. The impact inoculant being produced by AISL to the soyabean production is great.
Paul Woomer prefered to place this new article, saying: “Recently we met about the weak promotion of NoduMax in Nigeria and the team there seemed confused about the importance and approaches of test marketing, and this could help.”
This article (Podcaster 42, December 2016) was chosen by Peter Ebanyat as it shows the intended outcome of the project intervention
Thus from the article- N2Africa is a downstream action project that reaches smallholder farmers and supports them build and use appropriate linkage strategies to exploit opportunities along grain legume value chains to improve their livelihoods.
Freddy Baijukya chose this article Podcaster 42, December 2016 because N2Africa has been successful in creating partnerships for research and development in all countries where the project is implemented to ensure that farmers benefit from symbiotic N2-fixation by grain legumes. However, ensuring strong incentives for partners was considered a challenge. In this article, we presented a case where the interests of all stakeholders were aligned and the relationships among partners fostered so that they grew to be mutually beneficial.
Nkeki Kamai is proud of this article as it gladdens his heart that youths especially a female one for that matter was taken off the streets of Borno State by N2Africa Project and not just becoming self-employed but engaging other youths. This is so important because of the fact that recently most of the suicide bombers in Borno state are females. (First appeared in Podcaster 46, June 2017)
For Nigeria Nkeki Kamai chose this article from Podcaster 39, September 2016 as from recent developments in Ojo’s work the answer to that question is YES. If a functional inoculant for cowpea can be developed from work of a N2Africa student then this is one of the greatest news for Nigeria. Remember Nigeria is the largest producer, the largest consumer and the largest net importer of cowpea in Africa.
Samuel Adjei Nsiah selected this article because our partnership has resulted in the development of a special fertilizer blend for grain legume crops in Ghana. Besides, this fertilizer blend has been adopted by the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in Ghana for use in the production of soyabean in Ghana within the framework of the government flagship program “Planting for Food and Job”.
Endalkachew wolde-Meskel chose to repeat the Ethiopian part of the article on the PPP, from Podcaster 29 (January and February 2015), as the PPP was a useful approach that N2Africa followed to promote the dissemination of legume technology and value chain in Ethiopia. Mapping relevant stakeholders and functionalizing the PPP at the different corners of the country, we were able to reach more than 50,000 of smallholders, made possible smallholders access to inoculants - an essential element of the N2Africa legume production technology.
