• ASHC Newsreport: Sharing soil health approaches June 2017;
• ASHC Newsreports: Fertilizer approach could empower 50m African families and Fertilizer phone app coming soon …;
• Tropical Legumes III:

I’m writing this introduction from meetings in Berlin – the Think20 Dialogue on Global Solutions associated with the G20 Germany 2017 – see link – and the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network – see link. Although very important at the political and policy level, these high level summits seem far from the reality of life in rural Africa, although a major focus of these initiatives is addressing inequality.

When farmers are empowered with knowledge on N2Africa technologies, this information can be disseminated to others. One of the strategies to disseminate research results of N2Africa at scale in South Kivu, Eastern DRC, has been the training of students of agriculture high schools in the N2Africa action sites. The trained students in turn train households in their villages. This article contains the stories of three farmers about how the learned about N2Africa’s technologies and the impact on their livelihoods.

With so many articles and reports, extension materials and student theses emerging from N2Africa we realised that it was necessary to make it easier to find our outputs. For this reason we have revised the N2Outputs tab with clearer categories. If you have problems finding the information you need, or if you have suggestions for improvement of the website, please help us by contacting N2Africa.office@wur.nl.

This story highlights the testimony of Mukakayonde Claudine, a woman from Mareba Sector, Rango Cell, Bugesera District. She is 47 years old, married to Manassé and they have six children. Her life has changed due to N2Africa project.

Before the start of N2Africa project in her area, she was producing soyabean but with no plan for development. She was mixing all crops together and the yield was always very low. She had no knowledge of an agricultural practice that could lead to increased soyabean yield. However, she knew that soyabean can improve the nutrition of her children.