View article

1 Background

The study at hand was implemented under a Service Agreement between the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and iLogix in support of the N2Africa Project in collaboration with the Legume Alliance sister projects. These comprise the African Soil Health Consortium (ASHC), Scaling-up Improved Legume Technologies (SILT), Gender and the Legume Alliance: Integrating multi-media communication approaches and input brokerage (GALA) and Up-scaling Technologies in Agriculture through Knowledge Extension (UPTAKE) projects.

These projects jointly developed and used innovative and complementary communication approaches to scale-up improved legume technologies and established sustainable input supply systems. The projects aimed to facilitate an information and distribution network of improved legume technologies driven by farmers and input suppliers, supported by various business models and ICT systems. This is in line with two strategic objectives of the N2Africa project: