N2Africa | Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa

Identified soyabean, common bean, cowpea and groundnut varieties with high Biological Nitrogen Fixation potential identified in N2Africa impact zones

Report referring to Milestone Report 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.2 and 2.3.2, and with references to 2.2.3 and 2.3.3

Announcement 16th conference of the AABNF, 2-6 November 2014

The Moroccan Association of Microbiology (AMM) and the African association for Biological Nitrogen Fixation (AABNF) will organize the 16th congress of the AABNF and the 4th international congress on microbial Biotechnologies under the topic of the integrated soil fertilization management 2 (ISFM2), from 2 to 6 November 2014, at Ecole normale Supérieure, Mohamed V-Agdal University, Rabat, Morocco.

N2Africa position announcements

Within N2Africa a number of job positions are open. Seven full position announcements can be found at the IITA website to which is linked below:

Assessment of quality control of inoculants used on bean and soybean in Eastern and Central Africa

A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science in sustainable soil resources management

Department of land resource management and agricultural technology faculty of Agriculture University of Nairobi, Kenya

N2Africa Podcaster 21

N2Africa Podcaster 20 Special Issue

N2Africa Podcaster 22

Introduction

Exciting times for N2Africa! We’re gearing up for a major workshop to mark the end of N2Africa Phase I (see the invitation from Jeroen Huising) and to make detailed plans for N2Africa Phase II (as introduced by Charlene McKoin below). The first analysis of our "early impact assessment" is yielding lots of interesting insights and we share some of those with you in this Podcaster, as well as a number of other news items and updates.

STOP PRESS!!

As this issue was on it’s way to be distributed we learned that the N2Africa Phase II US$25.3M grant has been officially approved!!

Message from Seattle

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has supported the N2Africa project since 2009. Although proven in the context of US and Brazil, the N2Africa Phase I was the first major program to prove the efficacy of nitrogen fixation to enhance productivity at the smallholder level in Africa.