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Soil Health for Improved Livelihoods

January 26, 2024

The Role of 4R Plant Nutrition in Living Agricultural Landscapes: Developing the Nitrogen Water Carbon Nexus

Food systems around the world must sustainably increase their performance to meet the growing demand for the foods and ecosystem services they provide. This issue is global in nature but is particularly sensitive in Africa because food systems there, which have hardly improved over the previous 50 years, are being looked upon to meet surging regional, continental, and global needs.

Climate & Weather Smart Plant Nutrition

January 26, 2024

The Taymate Cooperative: A Women-led Empowerment Story

When success stories from agricultural cooperatives are identified they deserve to be studied and told to inform actions for scaling out best management. We explore how cooperatives encourage strategies for livelihood improvement and support economic and social innovations to foster community adaptation to climate change.

Precision Nutrient Management

December 15, 2022

Post-Harvest Assessments of On-Farm Maize Experimentation Provide Key Checkpoints for Farmers and Stakeholders

The completion of the most recent maize-growing seasons in northern Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya (western and eastern regions) provided a first opportunity for farmers to share assessments from participating within a new on-farm research initiative for sub-Saharan Africa called NUTCAT - meaning Nutrient Catalyzed Agricultural Transformation.

Precision Nutrient Management

May 9, 2022

Towards a Farmer-Centric Framework for Scaling Productive and Sustainable Cereal Cropping Systems

A case is made for an innovation system framework that integrates farmer-centric and systemic approaches to scaling plant nutrition innovations for positive transformation of cereal cropping systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study from Ethiopia helps to build the case.

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Share your Snapshots: Honouring a Century-Old Tree

APNI’s scientists alongside researchers from the Tunisian Olive Institute (OIT) assessed biomass accumulation of this century-old olive tree to determine its capacity to partition nutrients and sequester carbon.

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Ask an APNI Expert: Can we estimate the fertility status of soil without knowing the plant nutrient status?

In short, the answer is yes, you can estimate the fertility status of soil without knowing the plant nutrient status. Traditionally this can be done through soil analysis, which provides an index of the plant availability of soil nutrients through a standardized test from a lab. Other soil tests can assess properties such as soil pH, cation exchange capacity, and organic matter content, which all contribute to the soil’s potential to supply the right balance of nutrients at rates that meet the demands of a productive crop.

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Share your Snapshots: Embu Road

Share your photos from the field on Instagram using the hashtag #ShareGrowingAfrica Not on Instagram yet? You can submit your photos to communications@apni.net for a..