The closing ceremony of Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP) was held in Singida last week. During the ceremony Project PI Rachel Kerr said that agroecological farming needs policy backing so that it can be implemented by farmers effectively.
A new set of multi-language videos out of the Southern Africa Community of Practice highlights new varieties of common bean that have resistance to beetles.
Soil erosion is one of the major problems confronting agriculture in tropical Africa. It is a major threat to soil resource, fertility and productivity.
CCRP has teamed up with Agro-Insight to support the translation of “Managing aflatoxins in groundnuts during drying and storage” into six local languages in West Africa.
The Kapkerer Farmers Group and the Kiptoruswo Self-Help Group of Nandi, Kenya produce nutrient-dense porridge mixes by integrating legumes into traditional recipes.
A collection of case studies based on 10 years of research in Malawi, produced by the McKnight Collaborative Crop Research Program’s Southern Africa community of practice.
Excited by the idea that top dressing their crops with urine would increase their crop yields, FUMA Gaskiya farmers experimented for three years with using human urine as fertilizer to enrich the n
