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.

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)