Soybean production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is increasing as its demand for food, feed, cash, and soil fertility improvement soars. Yet, the difference between the smallholder farmers’ yield and either the attainable in research fields or the potential from crop models is large. Most of the reasons for the yield gap are known including low to non-application of appropriate fertilizers and inoculants, late planting, low plant populations, using recycled seeds, and poor crop management practices. ...

Reducing Malawi's persistent food insecurity requires increased and sustainable agricultural productivity despite worsening climate shocks and soil degradation. This study focuses on social capital as a catalyst for the uptake of Conservation Agriculture (CA), a sustainable cropping technique that can address these problems. Despite several initiatives from NGOs and the Malawian government, as well as scientific data supporting CA, adoption rates remain below expectations. The study used secondary ...

This document contains a summary of the observations and results of the IITA research farms soil assessment. This report also includes the proposed soil management plans for each of the research farms. The field observation data, soil and water laboratory results are presented in the Appendix.

The African Development Bank launched the Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (TAAT) programme as part of the Bank’s Feed Africa strategy that is harnessing elite scientific research/technologies and disseminating at scale to African farmers. TAAT’s main objective is to improve the business of agriculture across Africa by raising agricultural productivity, mitigating risks and promoting diversification and processing in 18 agricultural value chains within eight Priority Intervention ...

The African Development Bank launched the Technologies for African Agriculture Transformation (TAAT) programme as part of the Bank’s Feed Africa strategy that is harnessing elite scientific research/technologies and disseminating at scale to African farmers. TAAT’s main objective is to improve the business of agriculture across Africa by raising agricultural productivity, mitigating risks and promoting diversification and processing in 18 agricultural value chains within eight Priority Intervention ...

The developmental objective of the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Program is to rapidly expand access of smallholder farmers to high yielding agricultural technologies that improve their food production, assure food security, and raise rural incomes. This goal is achieved by delivering regional public goods for rapidly scaling up agricultural technologies across similar agro-ecological zones. This result is achieved through three principal mechanisms; (i) creating an ...

This catalogue describes a series of proven livestock technologies that promote increased productivity and transformation of small ruminant production in Africa. It is developed through a collaborative effort from the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Program that seeks to increase stakeholder use of proven agricultural technologies, and its Small Livestock Compact project partners. The TAAT Small Livestock Compact, led by the International Livestock Research Institute ...

This catalogue describes a series of technologies related to the modernization of wheat production in Africa. It is based on the combined efforts of the Project Platform for Agricultural Solutions (ProPAS), an information portal, and the Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT), a large collaborative program that is deploying agricultural solutions across the continent. Both activities are addressing the imperative to better connect proven technologies to those who need them, ...