Africa Soil Health Consortium - improving soil fertility, improving food production, improving livelihoods

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Supporting knowledge sharing on Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) for increased productivity

Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) is a new project contributing towards radical change in the understanding and use of Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) techniques in sub-Saharan Africa, enabling smallholder farmers to improve their crop yields. The ASHC project is being coordinated by CABI, an international science and agriculture organization, through their team in Africa, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  

 

 
 

Latest News

Opportunity to join ASHC as postdoc fellow on ISFM policy

Deadline for applications 5:00 pm Friday 13 April 2012

Please send a covering letter detailing how you meet the candidate profile and a full CV quoting job reference 03/2012 to finadmin@cabi.org

 

Shamba Shape Up - TV programme highlights how soil can be improved

The African Soil Health Consortium partners have been working hard over the past few months to ensure that soil improvement messages are included in the new series of the popular television programme Shamba Shape Up. The new series of the award winning Shamba Shape Up began in March on Citizen TV  and is being shown in English and in Swahili. You can watch all the latest episodes on You Tube and we understand that Shamba Shape Up will soon have its own website where you can watch the show. Read more >>

 

 

Ms Elishililia Alex

 

Minjingu rock phosphate helps Elishililia double her crop

To celebrate International Women’s Day the African Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) shares a good news story of fertilizer innovation in Tanzania. Read more >>

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