GeoNutrition - tackling hidden hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lead Research Organisation:
Rothamsted Research
Department Name: Sustainable Agriculture Sciences-H
Abstract
Mineral Micronutrient Deficiencies (MNDs) are widespread in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). MNDs (a.k.a. hidden hunger) have a major detrimental effect on human health which constrains economic growth and efforts to alleviate poverty. Alleviating MNDs is a major component of the second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG2), to "End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture", by 2030. This Foundation Award will focus on supporting efforts to reduce MNDs in Ethiopia and Malawi, two countries with widespread mineral nutrient malnutrition problems where dietary mineral intakes fall well below levels required for optimal nutrition. For example, zinc deficiency risks are >40% in both countries which causes high rates of child mortality and stunting. Selenium deficiency risks exceed 75% in Malawi, compromising the healthy functioning of human immune systems. Iron and iodine deficiencies are widespread and are the focus of widespread supplementation and food fortification programmes (i.e. technical 'fixes') in the region.
The scientific aim of this Foundation Award is to understand how the spectral properties of tropical African soils relate to plant-availability of minerals in soils and, subsequently, to the transfer of minerals into the edible portions of staple crops and diets, and to population-level biomarkers of optimal mineral status. Achieving this aim will enable the geospatial prediction of plant-available nutrients in soils and in edible crop tissues, and thereby in downstream food systems. Spectral properties have previously been measured on a massive scale by the Africa Soils Information Service (AfSIS) programme, using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Mid Infra-Red (MIR) spectroscopy. We have previously identified strong links between soil-crop-biomarkers in small-scale cross-sectional studies in Malawi.
This aim will be realised through activities in three Themes. In Theme 1, a designed soil and crop sampling programme will be conducted at 500 sites in Ethiopia. Two sets of statistical models will be developed, the first will focus on predicting relationships between total (XRF) and plant-available soil mineral concentrations, using covariate data from MIR, remote sensing and legacy data (e.g. maps) sources. The second set of models will focus on relationships between plant-available soil mineral concentrations and their concentrations in crop edible portions. In Theme 2, these data will be integrated with data from published/government sources to predict dietary mineral supply (and highlight knowledge gaps). These predictions will be tested against mineral biomarker data (e.g. blood, urine) and proxies of micronutrient status (e.g. stunting) from national surveillance programmes. Outputs of Themes 1 and 2 will be delivered in the forms of maps and reports suited to communicating with policy-makers, to include the communication of uncertainty. Maps will be used to highlight those geographical areas that are at highest likely risk of MNDs. The focus of Theme 3 is interactions with policy-makers to optimise communication strategies, and to strengthen networks and capacity to conduct longer-term R&D to address knowledge gaps in the region.
We have well-established networks of partners in Ethiopia and Malawi, including academics, high-level policy-makers, NGOs and industry, who will all play active roles to ensure that the Foundation Award delivers genuine impact that will be assessed using robust evaluation procedures.
The scientific aim of this Foundation Award is to understand how the spectral properties of tropical African soils relate to plant-availability of minerals in soils and, subsequently, to the transfer of minerals into the edible portions of staple crops and diets, and to population-level biomarkers of optimal mineral status. Achieving this aim will enable the geospatial prediction of plant-available nutrients in soils and in edible crop tissues, and thereby in downstream food systems. Spectral properties have previously been measured on a massive scale by the Africa Soils Information Service (AfSIS) programme, using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Mid Infra-Red (MIR) spectroscopy. We have previously identified strong links between soil-crop-biomarkers in small-scale cross-sectional studies in Malawi.
This aim will be realised through activities in three Themes. In Theme 1, a designed soil and crop sampling programme will be conducted at 500 sites in Ethiopia. Two sets of statistical models will be developed, the first will focus on predicting relationships between total (XRF) and plant-available soil mineral concentrations, using covariate data from MIR, remote sensing and legacy data (e.g. maps) sources. The second set of models will focus on relationships between plant-available soil mineral concentrations and their concentrations in crop edible portions. In Theme 2, these data will be integrated with data from published/government sources to predict dietary mineral supply (and highlight knowledge gaps). These predictions will be tested against mineral biomarker data (e.g. blood, urine) and proxies of micronutrient status (e.g. stunting) from national surveillance programmes. Outputs of Themes 1 and 2 will be delivered in the forms of maps and reports suited to communicating with policy-makers, to include the communication of uncertainty. Maps will be used to highlight those geographical areas that are at highest likely risk of MNDs. The focus of Theme 3 is interactions with policy-makers to optimise communication strategies, and to strengthen networks and capacity to conduct longer-term R&D to address knowledge gaps in the region.
We have well-established networks of partners in Ethiopia and Malawi, including academics, high-level policy-makers, NGOs and industry, who will all play active roles to ensure that the Foundation Award delivers genuine impact that will be assessed using robust evaluation procedures.
Technical Summary
GeoNutrition is a framework to help reduce mineral Micronutrient Deficiencies (MNDs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It adds value to the Africa Soils Information Service (AfSIS) programme, whose current focus is soils information, by integrating the spheres of agriculture, nutrition and public health. The initial scope is Ethiopia and Malawi, due to established interactions with academics and policy-makers.
Our scientific aim is to understand how the spectral properties of tropical soils relate to plant-availability of soil minerals and subsequent mineral transfers into the edible portions of staple crops. Spectral properties have previously been measured by AfSIS using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Mid Infra-Red (MIR) spectroscopy.
Soils/staple-crops will be sampled at 500 new sites (Ethiopia, late-2017). Soil properties influencing plant-availability (e.g. iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity) and MIR/XRF (e.g. pH, organic C) analyses will be conducted on the same samples. Mechanisms controlling nutrient binding/release will be identified and plant-available soil concentrations predicted at all AfSIS sites using Linear Mixed Modelling (covariates include satellite data and legacy maps). Similar models of staple-crop mineral composition and dietary mineral supplies will be developed at co-located sites and published/government sources.
Co-regionalised mapping will include estimates of (un)certainty in visual and verbal forms. Maps will show areas to be at the highest likely risk of MNDs to frame knowledge gaps. These predictions will be tested against mineral biomarker data (e.g. blood, urine) and proxies of MND status (e.g. stunting) from national surveillance programmes. Interactions with policy-makers to optimise communication strategies for different groups, and to strengthen networks/capacity to conduct longer-term R&D to address regional knowledge gaps is embedded within the work programme.
Our scientific aim is to understand how the spectral properties of tropical soils relate to plant-availability of soil minerals and subsequent mineral transfers into the edible portions of staple crops. Spectral properties have previously been measured by AfSIS using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and Mid Infra-Red (MIR) spectroscopy.
Soils/staple-crops will be sampled at 500 new sites (Ethiopia, late-2017). Soil properties influencing plant-availability (e.g. iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity) and MIR/XRF (e.g. pH, organic C) analyses will be conducted on the same samples. Mechanisms controlling nutrient binding/release will be identified and plant-available soil concentrations predicted at all AfSIS sites using Linear Mixed Modelling (covariates include satellite data and legacy maps). Similar models of staple-crop mineral composition and dietary mineral supplies will be developed at co-located sites and published/government sources.
Co-regionalised mapping will include estimates of (un)certainty in visual and verbal forms. Maps will show areas to be at the highest likely risk of MNDs to frame knowledge gaps. These predictions will be tested against mineral biomarker data (e.g. blood, urine) and proxies of MND status (e.g. stunting) from national surveillance programmes. Interactions with policy-makers to optimise communication strategies for different groups, and to strengthen networks/capacity to conduct longer-term R&D to address regional knowledge gaps is embedded within the work programme.
Planned Impact
The impact of our research is aimed towards enhancing the quality of life, health and well-being of people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The initial focus of GeoNutrition is Ethiopia and Malawi (Low Income Countries, LICs), both with major Micronutrient Deficiency (MND) problems, but it is scalable to other countries. By developing a multidisciplinary and geospatial 'Agriculture-to-Nutrition' framework, GeoNutrition can support several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the elimination of hunger (SDG2), good health and wellbeing (SDG3), reduced inequalities (SDG10), and responsible consumption and production (SDG12).
Preliminary and single-mineral micronutrient studies have already enabled us to link soil type to food composition, dietary mineral supply and socioeconomic factors in Malawi. This led directly to secondary biomarker analyses in the 2015/16 National Micronutrient Survey, by the Government of Malawi, which was a pilot 'Pathways to Impact' activity. Such activities will be extended in this Foundation Award, albeit on a larger scale and in multiple countries, for several mineral micronutrients. The GeoNutrition approach has potential applications across the entire African continent. The Africa Soils Information Service (AfSIS) has prepared digital soil maps across Africa.
The idea of testing the wider application of spectral properties of tropical African soils in food, nutrition and health domains is highly innovative. We have identified scientific and logistical risk factors to achieving project success in the Management Plan. However, even with partial success, this project would help to address the historical problem that expensive wet chemistry techniques are difficult to deploy in SSA. Some successes are virtually certain based on preliminary pilot-scale work.
A successful GeoNutrition project will integrate natural and social sciences approaches, and thereby provide considerable value for monitoring/testing policy interventions through a geospatial framework. This integrated, multidisciplinary, geospatial framework is designed to build an R&D platform to support evidence based policy making. For example, GeoNutrition can be used to identify areas of high/low/uncertain mineral intakes, and potential cohorts of volunteers to study the health effects of interventions for long-term monitoring.
From a natural sciences perspective, the data and approaches used in GeoNutrition have the potential to shape/enhance soil and crop management decisions, and investment in breeding programmes. For example, it can inform decisions on how to prioritise R&D and deploy new traits/varieties most effectively to benefit consumers, farmers, and the wider industry.
From a social sciences perspective, food systems research from both consumer (demand-driven) and producer (supply-driven) perspectives could potentially be transformed by being able to account for spatial variations in food mineral compositions. The flows of some minerals (e.g. zinc, iron, iodine) through food systems can be integrated into health burden/outcome-based socioeconomic frameworks (e.g. using Disability Adjusted Life Years, DALYs). Thus, our findings can contribute immediately towards influencing public policies to address MNDs at local, regional and national scales, e.g. through education and dietary diversification. We expect that our work will support the development of similar frameworks for other minerals (e.g. selenium).
Our "Pathways to Impact" activities will align directly with an ongoing (University of Nottingham-led) capacity strengthening project, funded by the Royal Society-DFID. This programme is seeking to increase doctoral training opportunities in SSA, with a focus on human (student, academic, technical) and infrastructural (lab., admin., finance) capacity. The impact of this project and wider programme is being evaluated using a Theory of Change framework, which we will also deploy for GeoNutrition.
Preliminary and single-mineral micronutrient studies have already enabled us to link soil type to food composition, dietary mineral supply and socioeconomic factors in Malawi. This led directly to secondary biomarker analyses in the 2015/16 National Micronutrient Survey, by the Government of Malawi, which was a pilot 'Pathways to Impact' activity. Such activities will be extended in this Foundation Award, albeit on a larger scale and in multiple countries, for several mineral micronutrients. The GeoNutrition approach has potential applications across the entire African continent. The Africa Soils Information Service (AfSIS) has prepared digital soil maps across Africa.
The idea of testing the wider application of spectral properties of tropical African soils in food, nutrition and health domains is highly innovative. We have identified scientific and logistical risk factors to achieving project success in the Management Plan. However, even with partial success, this project would help to address the historical problem that expensive wet chemistry techniques are difficult to deploy in SSA. Some successes are virtually certain based on preliminary pilot-scale work.
A successful GeoNutrition project will integrate natural and social sciences approaches, and thereby provide considerable value for monitoring/testing policy interventions through a geospatial framework. This integrated, multidisciplinary, geospatial framework is designed to build an R&D platform to support evidence based policy making. For example, GeoNutrition can be used to identify areas of high/low/uncertain mineral intakes, and potential cohorts of volunteers to study the health effects of interventions for long-term monitoring.
From a natural sciences perspective, the data and approaches used in GeoNutrition have the potential to shape/enhance soil and crop management decisions, and investment in breeding programmes. For example, it can inform decisions on how to prioritise R&D and deploy new traits/varieties most effectively to benefit consumers, farmers, and the wider industry.
From a social sciences perspective, food systems research from both consumer (demand-driven) and producer (supply-driven) perspectives could potentially be transformed by being able to account for spatial variations in food mineral compositions. The flows of some minerals (e.g. zinc, iron, iodine) through food systems can be integrated into health burden/outcome-based socioeconomic frameworks (e.g. using Disability Adjusted Life Years, DALYs). Thus, our findings can contribute immediately towards influencing public policies to address MNDs at local, regional and national scales, e.g. through education and dietary diversification. We expect that our work will support the development of similar frameworks for other minerals (e.g. selenium).
Our "Pathways to Impact" activities will align directly with an ongoing (University of Nottingham-led) capacity strengthening project, funded by the Royal Society-DFID. This programme is seeking to increase doctoral training opportunities in SSA, with a focus on human (student, academic, technical) and infrastructural (lab., admin., finance) capacity. The impact of this project and wider programme is being evaluated using a Theory of Change framework, which we will also deploy for GeoNutrition.
Organisations
- Rothamsted Research (Lead Research Organisation)
- Medical Research Council (Co-funder)
- Natural Environment Research Council (Co-funder)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (Co-funder)
- Economic and Social Research Council (Co-funder)
- Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources (Collaboration)
- Columbia University (Collaboration)
- Ministry of Health Malawi (Collaboration)
- Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture (Collaboration)
- Max Planck Society (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Association of African Universities (Collaboration)
- Addis Ababa University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Global Good Fund (Collaboration)
- International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) (Collaboration)
- WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE (Collaboration)
- British Geological Survey (Collaboration)
- Tufts University (Collaboration)
- Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development (Collaboration)
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) (Collaboration)
- Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Project Partner)
- Africa Soil Information Service (Project Partner)
- Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (Project Partner)
- Agricultural Res Services (DARS) Malawi (Project Partner)
- Ministry of Health (Project Partner)
Publications
Mathers A
(2017)
Determining the fate of selenium in wheat biofortification: an isotopically labelled field trial study
in Plant and Soil
SM Haefele
(2019)
SSP meeting Lancaster: AfSIS and follow up activities at RRes
Steve P. McGrath
(2019)
GeoNutrition - helping to solve micronutrient deficiencies
Ligowe IS
(2020)
Selenium deficiency risks in sub-Saharan African food systems and their geospatial linkages.
in The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
Gashu D
(2020)
Spatial prediction of the concentration of selenium (Se) in grain across part of Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
in The Science of the total environment
Cairns J
(2021)
Revisiting strategies to incorporate gender-responsiveness into maize breeding in southern Africa
in Outlook on Agriculture
Gashu D
(2021)
The nutritional quality of cereals varies geospatially in Ethiopia and Malawi.
in Nature
Chagumaira C
(2021)
Communicating uncertainties in spatial predictions of grain micronutrient concentration
in Geoscience Communication
Desta MK
(2021)
Plant Available Zinc Is Influenced by Landscape Position in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
in Plants (Basel, Switzerland)
Botoman L
(2022)
Soil and landscape factors influence geospatial variation in maize grain zinc concentration in Malawi.
in Scientific reports
Coggins S
(2022)
How have smallholder farmers used digital extension tools? Developer and user voices from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.
in Global food security
Kumssa DB
(2022)
Cereal grain mineral micronutrient and soil chemistry data from GeoNutrition surveys in Ethiopia and Malawi.
in Scientific data
Asrat T
(2022)
Spectral Soil Analysis for Fertilizer Recommendations by Coupling with Quefts for Maize in East Africa: A Sensitivity Analysis
in SSRN Electronic Journal
Haefele S
(2024)
Mehlich 3 as an indicator of grain nutrient concentration for five cereals in sub-Saharan Africa
in Field Crops Research
Description | The Amhara soil and grain sampling survey has been completed. This work was of critical value, because it allowed us to: (i) deploy robust field and lab SOPs and training procedures; (ii) use informed participatory risk assessments with field staff; (iii) design ethical approval and consent procedures and submissions; (iv) develop and test statistical analysis methods that link measurement of soil conditions to crop composition and potential dietary intakes from staple crops; and (v) to make spatial predictions of the amounts of nutrients supplied in grain in the region, which is key to determine where and which crops require interventions. Soil and grain samples have been analysed in ICRAF, RRes and UoN labs; sample duplicates have been retained by AAU in Ethiopia for future analyses. We conducted more analyses than planned, including new method development. For example, we: (i) modified soil fractionation protocols to gain greater insights on soil selenium, iodine, silicon and sulphur dynamics; (ii) completed more detailed analyses on soil zinc lability/crop availability using stable zinc isotopes; (iii) optimized grain iodine analyses because grain iodine concentrations were smaller than expected. A methods-development paper has been published. We have conducted two broad types of geospatial analysis on the Amhara data. The first was to explore evidence for spatial dependencies in grain mineral concentration in teff and wheat. For both crops, and for almost all mineral elements tested to date, we find spatial variation in grain concentration exhibited by either a trend in the mean, or spatial dependence of a substantial proportion of the random variation, or both, over scales of several 10s of km. For grain zinc, and other mineral (e.g. Ca, Mo, and Mn) concentrations, more than half the variation is spatially correlated. These analyses vindicate the 'GeoNutrition' approach because they indicate that the supply of micronutrients from local food sources is spatially variable, and so an effective response to deficiency must account for this variation, possibly through management of spatially variable drivers such as soil conditions. In the second more detailed data analysis, we focused on the main target elements (selenium and zinc) to identify the most important soil and landscape co-variates for spatial prediction and to map the spatial variation of grain concentrations and the probability that grain can support adequate intake. A paper on grain selenium concentration has been published. |
Exploitation Route | Based on this work, we successfully bid for a larger (more than £4.4M) GeoNutrition project from BMGF that covers larger areas of cropland in Ethiopia and Malawi, and includes growing agronomically fortified maize with increased micro-nutrient content to be used in a human intervention study, thus extending the scope of the programme and broadening out the multidisciplinary aspects of the work. The larger project also has budget for capacity building via funding PhD students and providing training in field and lab research. Further substantial co-investment was secured from the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) for GeoNutrition-informed mapping activities: (1) in Pakistan, BiZiFED2, led by University of Central Lancashire (£1.6M); (2) in Zimbabwe, led by University of Nottingham through an institute-level GCRF Research Translation Award (£0.92M), Translating GeoNutrition, which aims to support the Government of Zimbabwe design a nationally-representative micronutrient survey in 2020; and (3) a project entitled Developing combined interventions to address the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Zimbabwe, led by RRes (£0.82M). |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Communities and Social Services/Policy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Environment Healthcare Government Democracy and Justice Other |
URL | http://www.geonutrition.com/ |
Description | The results helped shape the direction of future work in a new area which we called GeoNutrition. This is shown especially in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded (>£4.4M) project which uses the techniques and protocols we developed in this project and extends the science in two main ways. One is to conduct national surveys of Malawi and the rest of Ethiopia, providing unique coverage of all of the cereal producing areas of two countries in Africa. The other is to focus on extending a landscape-level design for agronomic intervention experiments, and supporting the production of grain with and without fortification to use in human intervention studies. This larger follow-on project enables the study to extend as far as human biomarkers of micronutrient deficiencies and therefore potential impacts of interventions on human health, and linking back to soil and crop mapping will allow interventions to be targeted more efficiently to where they are needed, and save valuable resources where they are not. Follow on projects have funded the training of 11 PhD students from Africa to date, which add to our other capacity building activities. Our approaches and data analyses have also been used in other ongoing agronomy initiatives outside of GeoNutrition projects. To facilitate this, we have openly published a number of other data sets which will be useful to others in future for systematic reviews and further meta-analyses as well as for testing completely new hypotheses and developing products. Our approach has succeeded and is being extended to more countries and will help more governments and other agencies to target nutritional interventions, which are a high priority in developing countries. One example is that we helped to form the iSDA programme (iSDA-africa) which is rolling out the use of soil data for practical use in site-specific fertiliser recommendations, and which provided for the first time a 30 m resolution Africa map of agronomy, soil and landscape information, and the iSDA Virtual Agronomist app which can be used to improve the productivity and the nutritional value of crops, thereby improving people's health and livelihoods across Africa. Also, in association with this work, a Fertilizer Optimizer app has been produced with CABI for: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia and is available to use in English, French and Portuguese. This enables anyone with a smart phone to more effectively utilise fertilisers for their specific local conditions and crops. |
First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Environment,Healthcare |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic |
Description | ANH2023 (Online & Malawi) | ANH Academy |
Geographic Reach | Africa |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://www.anh-academy.org/academy-week/2023 |
Description | Syngenta Code for Sustainable and Responsible Agriculture |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Description | A Combined food systems approach to scale up interventions to address double burden of malnutrition |
Amount | ÂŁ825,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/T009047/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2020 |
End | 02/2023 |
Description | Biofortification with Zinc and Iron for Eliminating Deficiency in Pakistan (BiZIFED2) |
Amount | ÂŁ1,676,210 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/S013989/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Examining the effectiveness and acceptability of the use of bio-fortified crops in alleviating micronutrient deficiencies in Pakistan |
Amount | ÂŁ301,664 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/P02338X/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2017 |
End | 04/2019 |
Description | Exploitation of beneficial root-associated rhizobacteria in grain cereal-based cropping systems (Microbiome) |
Amount | ÂŁ661,484 (GBP) |
Organisation | OCP |
Sector | Private |
Country | Morocco |
Start | 11/2019 |
End | 11/2023 |
Description | Fertiliser Optimiser App |
Amount | ÂŁ28,132 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BBS/OS/GC/200014A |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2017 |
End | 07/2018 |
Description | GCRF (Institute Award) - 'Tools and Resources for African Soils' led by Andy Neal |
Amount | ÂŁ221,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start |
Description | GCRF - Global Challenges Research Fund - Addressing malnutrition with biofortified maize in Zimbabwe |
Amount | ÂŁ830,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/T009047/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2020 |
End | 01/2023 |
Description | Micronutrient Action Policy Support (MAPS) tool |
Amount | $6,243,516 (USD) |
Funding ID | INV-002855 |
Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United States |
Start |
Description | New soil and plant diagnostics tools for better fertilizer recommendations |
Amount | ÂŁ1,128,623 (GBP) |
Organisation | OCP |
Sector | Private |
Country | Morocco |
Start | 11/2019 |
End | 10/2023 |
Description | Research to support policies to reduce MNDs by the Governments of Ethiopia, Malawi, and the region |
Amount | ÂŁ5,000,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | INV-009129 |
Organisation | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United States |
Start | 01/2018 |
End | 01/2023 |
Description | Towards transdisciplinary understanding of inherited soil surveys: an exploratory case study in Zambia. |
Amount | ÂŁ175,136 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/T00410X/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2019 |
End | 05/2021 |
Description | Translating GeoNutrition (TGN): Reducing mineral micronutrient deficiencies (MMNDs) in Zimbabwe |
Amount | ÂŁ813,300 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T015667/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2019 |
End | 03/2021 |
Title | Development of a global soil spectral calibration library |
Description | The online library is a major advance in rapid estimations of soil condition and sustainable soil management for improved food security and environmental management. Soil spectroscopy is a fast, cost-effective and environmental-friendly technique that uses the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with soils to estimate soil properties such as the levels of acidity, organic carbon, nitrogen and water retention. These determine the health and usability of these soils. The initial collection for the library contains high-quality soil spectral reflectance and measured data for over 80 000 soil samples. Spectral reflectance measures how much energy (as a percentage) a soil surface reflects at a specific wavelength, which is then used to identify different soil properties. From this, a soil's condition and quality can be analysed. This library will continue to grow as participating countries provide samples for spectral and conventional analysis, meaning countries can use this data to rapidly characterize their soil conditions and help protect them. This centralised and standardised spectral reflectance library will be freely available to laboratories around the world. In addition, the library will soon support a free and easy-to-use soil property estimation service where users can submit their soil spectral data and come out with a suite of estimated soil conditions and properties. |
Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Help countries understand soil conditions to improve agricultural productivity and reverse land degradation A global soil spectral calibration library to support countries in understanding of soil condition. This is a key factor in improving agricultural productivity and reversing land degradation. |
URL | http://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1271807/?utm_content=bufferc9892&utm_medium=social&utm_s... |
Title | Dry spectral analysis laboratory . |
Description | New dry spectral analysis laboratory set up for diagnostic assessment of soils, plants, fertilizers and manures in association with the African Soil Information Service and ICRAF |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The instrumentation is also bring used for outer purposes as part of students PhD work |
Title | AWS open data associated with AfSIS soils |
Description | This data set contains soil infrared spectral data and paired soil property reference measurements for geo-referenced soil samples that were collected through the Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) project, which lasted from 2009 through 2018. In this release, we include data collected during Phase I (2009-2013.) Geo-referenced samples were collected from 19 countries in Sub-Saharan African using a statistically sound sampling scheme, and their soil properties were analyzed using both conventional soil testing methods and spectral methods (infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy). The two types of data can be paired to form a training data set for machine learning, such that certain soil properties can be well-predicted through less expensive spectral techniques. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Paired wet and dry chemistry measurements for georeferenced soils collected by the Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS), stored as CSV and OPUS files. |
URL | https://registry.opendata.aws/afsis/ |
Title | Cereal grain mineral micronutrient and soil chemistry data from GeoNutrition surveys in Ethiopia and Malawi |
Description | The dataset comprises primary data for the concentration of 29 mineral micronutrients in cereal grains and up to 84 soil chemistry properties from GeoNutrition project surveys in Ethiopia and Malawi. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The work provided insights on geospatial variation in the micronutrient concentration in staple crops, and the potential influencing soil factors |
URL | http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.15911973 |
Title | Global Soils metgenomic library |
Description | collection of over 450 shotgun metagenome data sets collected from various public repositories and generated from pristine and managed soils around the globe. These are being used to assess the diversity of micro-organisms and functions and study the effects of management upon soil communities.Partnerships with Bioplatforms Australia and the African Soils information service is contributing metagenomes from across Australia and sub-Saharan Africa to this database and extending the utility of the resource. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | none yet |
Title | Open Data on AWS: Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) Soil Chemistry |
Description | This dataset contains soil infrared spectral data and paired soil property reference measurements for georeferenced soil samples that were collected through the Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) project, which lasted from 2009 through 2018. Georeferenced samples were collected from 19 countries in Sub-Saharan African using a statistically sound sampling scheme, and their soil properties were analyzed using both conventional soil testing methods and spectral methods (infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy). |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The two types of data can be paired to form a training dataset for machine learning, such that certain soil properties can be well-predicted through less expensive spectral techniques. |
URL | https://registry.opendata.aws/afsis/ |
Title | Open-access data on African soils available via Amazon DB |
Description | iGCRF data relating to African soils were used in the first open-access Amazon DB related to soils information. This was announced in December 2018. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This data will help develop high resolution, ground-truthed maps covering various African regions related to soil chemistry and fertility |
Title | Wet chemistry data for a subset of AfSIS: Phase I archived soil samples |
Description | This dataset contains a subset of the samples collected during the AfSIS Phase I project and was a collaborative effort between World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and Rothamsted Research. The soil samples were retrieved from ICRAF Soil Archive: https://worldagroforestry.org/output/icraf-soil-archive-physical-archive-systematically-collected-soil-samples and subject to wet chemical analysis at Rothamsted Research in the UK under a Global Challenges Research Fund project, "BBS/OS/GC/000014B: Chemical and Biological Assessment of AfSIS soils" funded through the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. This dataset includes the Site, Cluster, Plot as well as the GPS coordinates and wet chemistry data from 2002 samples collected from 18 countries and 51 LDSF sites. The original data collection was part of the AfSIS Phase I project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and took place between 2009-2013. ICRAF and CIAT contributed the Site, Cluster, Plot and GPS coordinates for the soil samples, ICRAF organized the sub-sampling of the soil samples from the ICRAF physical archive in Nairobi and Rothamsted analysed the soil samples in the UK in 2017 and 2018. Visit our websites here: https://worldagroforestry.org/landhealth and https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/. The AfSIS Phase I project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) from 2009-2013, aimed to provide a consistent baseline of soil information across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Led by CIAT-TSBF, partners included: ISRIC, CIESIN, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and World Agroforestry (ICRAF). ICRAF led the systematic assessments of soil health using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF), which was developed at ICRAF, http://landscapeportal.org/blog/2015/03/25/the-land-degradation-surveillance-framework-ldsf/. LDSF sites were randomized using spatial stratification based on Koeppen-Geiger Climate zones across 19 countries in SSA. In total 60 LDSF sites were sampled. Soil samples were collected using the LDSF at two depths, 0-20 cm (labelled Topsoil) and 20-50 cm (labelled Subsoil). In each LDSF site, approximately 320 standard soil samples were collected. All of these were also scanned using MIR Spectroscopy and are available on Dataverse here: Vågen, Tor-Gunnar;Winowiecki, Leigh Ann;Desta, Luseged;Tondoh, Ebagnerin Jérôme;Weullow, Elvis;Shepherd, Keith;Sila, Andrew, 2020, "Mid-Infrared Spectra (MIRS) from ICRAF Soil and Plant Spectroscopy Laboratory: Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) Phase I 2009-2013", https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/QXCWP1, World Agroforestry - Research Data Repository, V1 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | none yet |
URL | https://data.worldagroforestry.org/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34725/DVN/66BFOB |
Description | Agronomic fortification |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Joint Research Projects |
Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, joint student supervision |
Impact | Publications and conference presentations |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Analysis of iodine data for Amhara/Ethiopia |
Organisation | Tufts University |
Department | Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We provided the soil chemical data. |
Collaborator Contribution | Identification of spatial links between soil and crop iodine status and cognitive performance among children |
Impact | none as yet. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | Collaboration with Glocal Good to develop hand held IR sensor |
Organisation | Global Good Fund |
Country | United States |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We made calibteations between the protoype and conventional chemical analysis and tested a prototype |
Collaborator Contribution | Designed and contructed a protoype for us to test |
Impact | We showed the robust calibation of the device and tested its usability. GG decided to partner with NeoSpectra to manufacture a publically available portable device. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Controls on Organic C in soils |
Organisation | Max Planck Society |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Project collaborator, sample analysis paper drafting African soil and data sets |
Collaborator Contribution | Project collaborator, sample analysis paper drafting |
Impact | paper published |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Estimating the prevalence of micronutrient deficiency in the Ethiopian population |
Organisation | Association of African Universities |
Country | Ghana |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Expertise. Use of data . Supervisory support. |
Collaborator Contribution | Work on selenium and zinc biomarkers resulting in several papers. |
Impact | Belay A, Gashu D, Joy EJM, Lark RM, Chagumaira C, Likoswe BH, Zerfu D, Ander EL, Young SD, Bailey EH, Broadley MR. Zinc deficiency is highly prevalent and spatially dependent over short distance in Ethiopia. Scientific Reports. • Belay A, Joy EJM, Chagumaira C, Zerfu D, Ander EL, Young SD, Bailey EH, Lark RM, Broadley MR, Gashu D (2020). Selenium deficiency is widespread and spatially dependent in Ethiopia. Nutrients, 12, 1565. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12061565. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | Addis Ababa University |
Country | Ethiopia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry (including inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS) to quantify properties influencing mineral bioavailability such as iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity. Solid-state MIR and XRF measurements on the same samples will be made in AfSIS labs,providing complementary data on total elements, pH and organic C. Together, these data sets will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | data in relation to aspects of human nutrition |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | British Geological Survey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry (including inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS) to quantify properties influencing mineral bioavailability such as iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity. Solid-state MIR and XRF measurements on the same samples will be made in AfSIS labs,providing complementary data on total elements, pH and organic C. Together, these data sets will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | Responsibility for sampling design for WP1.1, and statistical modelling in WP1.4. Also contribute to the development of methods to communicate uncertain information in Theme 3. All |
Impact | NONE YET |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | Columbia University |
Department | Africa Soil Information Service |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry (including inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS) to quantify properties influencing mineral bioavailability such as iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity. Solid-state MIR and XRF measurements on the same samples will be made in AfSIS labs,providing complementary data on total elements, pH and organic C. Together, these data sets will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | AfSIS staff will contribute to remote sensing, field data collection, soil & plant laboratory, software development and data science workflows |
Impact | NONE YET |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | Columbia University |
Department | Earth Institute |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry (including inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS) to quantify properties influencing mineral bioavailability such as iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity. Solid-state MIR and XRF measurements on the same samples will be made in AfSIS labs, providing complementary data on total elements, pH and organic C. Together, these data sets will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | provide access to data and expertise |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture |
Country | Ethiopia |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry (including inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS) to quantify properties influencing mineral bioavailability such as iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity. Solid-state MIR and XRF measurements on the same samples will be made in AfSIS labs,providing complementary data on total elements, pH and organic C. Together, these data sets will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | Provide expertise and access to datasets and maps from Ethiosis |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) |
Country | Mexico |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry (including inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS) to quantify properties influencing mineral bioavailability such as iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity. Solid-state MIR and XRF measurements on the same samples will be made in AfSIS labs,providing complementary data on total elements, pH and organic C. Together, these data sets will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | Provision of datasets and expertise |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | Lilongwe University of Agriculture & Natural Resources |
Country | Malawi |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry on the soil samples. The data produced will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | staff time, expertise on soil science and human nutrition. |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry (including inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS) to quantify properties influencing mineral bioavailability such as iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity. Solid-state MIR and XRF measurements on the same samples will be made in AfSIS labs,providing complementary data on total elements, pH and organic C. Together, these data sets will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | They will lead food systems analyses using both agricultural and social sciences perspectives. They will integrate crop composition, food supply, nutrition and food systems datasets. Assist with field work implementation of crop/soil sampling in Malawi and Ethiopia. Contribute to report and paper writing and presentation of findings, with a focus on engaging the nutrition community. |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | Ministry of Health Malawi |
Country | Malawi |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry (including inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS) to quantify properties influencing mineral bioavailability such as iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity. Solid-state MIR and XRF measurements on the same samples will be made in AfSIS labs,providing complementary data on total elements, pH and organic C. Together, these data sets will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | Science and policy related expertise |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development |
Country | Malawi |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry (including inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS) to quantify properties influencing mineral bioavailability such as iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity. Solid-state MIR and XRF measurements on the same samples will be made in AfSIS labs,providing complementary data on total elements, pH and organic C. Together, these data sets will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | data on assessments of selenium deficiency based on food systems and biomarker assessments, demonstrating a strong link between soil type and selenium deficiency. |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Department | School of Biosciences |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry (including inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS) to quantify properties influencing mineral bioavailability such as iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity. Solid-state MIR and XRF measurements on the same samples will be made in AfSIS labs,providing complementary data on total elements, pH and organic C. Together, these data sets will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | They will develop new crop/food composition databases for food systems analyses.Ensure the project aligns with ongoing research, including human micronutrient studies and capacity strengthening in doctoral training, in Ethiopia, Malawi, and elsewhere. Will carry out 2500 grain digests for multi-element and iodine), phytate analyses on grains and edible portions and then quantifiy phytic acid in grains. |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | GeoNutrition-tackling hidden hunger in sub-Saharan Africa |
Organisation | World Agroforestry Centre |
Country | Kenya |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We will perform the wet chemistry (including inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, ICP-MS) to quantify properties influencing mineral bioavailability such as iron sesquioxides, effective cation exchange capacity, phosphate binding capacity. Solid-state MIR and XRF measurements on the same samples will be made in AfSIS labs,providing complementary data on total elements, pH and organic C. Together, these data sets will allow us to determine which soil factors are most important in determining crop metal concentrations and help to identify the mechanisms which control nutrient binding and release. It will enable us to determine if the wet chemical results can be predicted reliably from solid-state measurements that can be performed in Africa |
Collaborator Contribution | staff will contribute to field data collection, soil & plant laboratory, software development and data science workflows: Total soil mineral concentrations for many elements, and soil physical and chemical properties, have been inferred from spectral data and then mapped across Africa |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Optimization and efficiency of agronomic biofortification for major crops in Ethiopia |
Organisation | University of Nottingham |
Department | School of Biosciences |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Supervisory support of PhD Agronomic fortification of maize and teff in Ethiopia. Funded by UoN and RRes. Training in analytical proceedures and use of facilities. |
Collaborator Contribution | Field studies in Ethiopia providing samples, data and landscape positions in Ethiopia. |
Impact | 1 paper in referred journal. Another has been submitted |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Socioeconomic evaluation of the potential of agronomic biofortification in Ethiopia |
Organisation | Association of African Universities |
Country | Ghana |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Supervisory support and use of Ahmara dataset produced by Rothamsted |
Collaborator Contribution | • Abdu Oumer: PhD student (year 2). Funded directly from GeoNutrition. |
Impact | no outputs yet, but will be forthcoming |
Start Year | 2019 |
Title | Fertilizer Optimizer App |
Description | The Fertilizer Optimzer App (which can be downloaded from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cabi.ofra&hl=en_US) is now deployed in fifteen countries, including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana and Ethiopia. The largest number of download requests (536) have come from India. Since the app was first released we have had ~2.6k downloads. There have been 17.7k sessions (optimization calculations) on the app. An upgrade to the mobile phone app now offers farmers across Africa even more benefits and cutting-edge fertilizer use technology. This will help farmers to grow healthier, more productive crops with increased profitability, as a result of more informed use of how small amounts of fertilizer impact the crops they grow. Pilot work on the CABI Fertilizer Optimizer app in Uganda has shown that some farmers realised up to a seven-fold increases in yield. Using funding from the BBSRC Global Challenges Research Fund, the app has now been upgraded to make it easier to use. The new app includes an integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) practices feature, and a calibration tool which helps farmers to apply the correct quantity of fertilizer to their crops. The Fertilizer Optimizer app is designed to help resource-constrained farmers to maximise the return on investment on fertilizer, based on what the farmer can realistically afford. In the latest version of the Fertilizer Optimizer app it is possible to calibrate the fertilizer recommendation to the planting conditions of a user's field. Version 1 of the app provided users with an amount of fertilizer to use and an application rate (e.g. 5kg per hectare). Now it is possible to enter field measurements, container sizes and preferred application technique and the app will help to evenly distribute the recommended fertilizers across the crop providing actionable information tailored to a each field. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | This app supports using fertilizer more efficiently to optimize a farmer's fertilizer investments. The app asks for information on crops grown, area planted, expected crop sale prices, fertilizer costs and the farmer's budget for investment in fertilizer products. Based on robust crop response functions, it calculates the most profitable combination of fertilizers to purchase and advises on crop and site-specific application rates. The app can also consider any integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) practices to tailor the fertilizer recommendation to individual farms. The Fertilizer Optimizer app has been created so that extension workers and farmers have free access to fertilizer advice, on mobile devices. The app runs offline allowing optimization calculations in the field. The app periodically checks servers for updates to the tool, so it is always recommending the most up-to-date advice. The Fertilizer Optimizer has been produced for: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia and is available to use in English, French and Portuguese. Since the app was first released it has been downloaded by ~2.6k users. There have been 17.7k sessions (optimization calculations) on the app. |
Title | Micronutrient Action Policy Support (MAPS) |
Description | A web-delivered tool to estimate micronutrient deficiencies and explore pathways to improve nutrition. This will have associated user-support and educational resources. The tool will be fully open access, with pre-loaded and bring-your-own data options. Micronutrient Action Policy Support (MAPS) tool delivers a co-designed, web-hosted tool, to enable the best possible estimates of MNDs to be communicated at national and sub-national scales in Africa. The MAPS tool is a unique enabling environment for the wider Agriculture-Nutrition community and beyond. Through novel functionality, this tool allow users to view and explore MND risks at various spatial and temporal scales. The tool provide users with dietary micronutrient supply estimates of all nations in Africa using national-scale data, which can be spatially disaggregated by population data. Where survey data on food consumption (e.g. Household Consumption and Expenditure Surveys, HCES) or food composition (e.g. GeoNutrition surveys) are available for a nation, these data will support delivery of sub-national estimates of dietary micronutrient supplies and risks of deficiency. Where both types of data are available with good spatial resolution for the geography of interest, these provide the most spatially disaggregated estimates possible. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | unknown at this point |
URL | https://micronutrient.support/ |
Company Name | Innovative Solutions For Decision Agriculture |
Description | |
Year Established | 2018 |
Impact | The project has combined historic data with remote sensing information and new field sampling techniques to create the first ever digital soil map of Africa. Built upon the principles of open innovation and co-development, the technologies and methodologies developed by AfSIS are freely available and remain highly relevant in other areas of the world. |
Website | http://www.isda-africa.com |
Description | "How can soil data help us tackle hidden hunger?". |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A video produced to explain how we can use soil data help us tackle hidden hunger and how soil management could reveal new ways to tackle it in sub-Saharan Africa |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.geonutrition.com/ |
Description | "Soil properties which influence bioavailability". |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Steve McGrath was an invited introductory speaker at the DEFRA Minerals from Grassland Workshop on Friday 22 February 2019 at Rothamsted Conference Centre, Harpenden. There were four other presentations and discussions, including research gaps, at the Workshop with 30 attendees |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | 'Plant nutrition, with a focus on the nutritional quality of crops and food systems' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Blog on by Martin Broadley: |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/inspiring-people/future-food/martin-broadley.aspx |
Description | (LUANAR): Installation of microwave plasma atomic emission spectrophotometer |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Press coverage was covered by newspapers: The Nation (14th February 2019), The Daily Times (15th February 2019), and by Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) TV (15th February 2019). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Addressing hidden hunger: from soils to people |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | GeoNutrition project launching meeting in Lilongwe- discussion afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.geonutrition.com/blog/addressing-hidden-hunger-from-soils-to-people |
Description | AfSIS and related GeoNutrition projects. AfSIS/iSDA Workshop, 29-30 October, ICRAF, Nairobi. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | To share information and progress on the Project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Associations between soil zinc, serum zinc, and linear growth of children in Ethiopia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Poster paper presented at Nutrition 2018, June 9-12, Boston, USA |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Conference - Washington DC, October 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Prof Steve McGrath was invited to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Conference in Washington DC, 2-5th October 2017. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Consortium meeting and stakeholder feedback in Malawi, November 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | television and newspaper coverage. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Experimental methods to assess the impact of nutrition-sensitive agricultural technologies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Paper presented at the Interdepartmental Nutrition Program Seminar. March 29 2018, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Festival of Science held at Rothamsted Research- exhibit entitled "Hidden Hunger" and The Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | More than 8000 visitors attended the event over 3 days, including one day for schools and invited people of importance. Our exhibit "Hidden hunger' discussed the deficiency of essential vitamins and minerals in the diet. Worldwide, more than 2 billion people lack vital micronutrients. Deficiencies of iron, zinc and iodine are recognized as having the largest negative impact on public health (WHO, 2006). In association with AfSIS (Africa Soil Information Service), our lab has recently is focused on developing the use of dry spectroscopy for the rapid and high-throughput analysis of the physical and chemical properties of soil and crop material. We showcased one of the instruments: pXRF (portable X-ray Fluorescence) which analyses the total elemental content of virtually any substance in an instant. We analysed the elemental content of a range of food stuffs from fizzy drinks to 'super-foods', to find out how nutritious (or not!) they are. Visitors were invited to have their own food items scanned. We encouraged visitors to think about how nutritious their food is or is not. We showed our " nutrient maps" of Africa and discussed stable crop varieties grown in Africa. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Food crops for people and the planet |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Panellist, N8 AgriFood International Conference. People, Health and Food Systems: Challenges and Solutions for 2030, 13-14 June 2018, Liverpool, UK. . |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.n8agrifood.ac.uk/media/Final-PDF-Liverpool-2018-At-a-glance-agenda_22-May-2018.docx-1.pd... |
Description | GeoNutrition meeting and Dissemination Event, Rothamsted, 29 August 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussion on data produced |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | GeoNutrition: exploring the roles of healthier soils to support improved nutritional outcomes presented by Martin Broadley |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UK-Czech Republic Bilateral International Meeting, Prague. Discussed topics included sustainable agriculture, biodiversity conservation in the age of climate change. There was the opportunity to present the activities and results of research teams and laboratories, discussing and searching for intersections or new approaches that could lead to the establishment of long-term bilateral cooperation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.avcr.cz/en/news-archive/The-Academy-hosted-a-two-day-UKCzech-Republic-Bilateral-Internat... |
Description | Hidden Hunger, Nutritious Horizons |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | DFID Research and Evidence Division Blog (Martin Broadley), includes discussion on GeoNutrition |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://medium.com/@DFID_Research/hidden-hunger-nutritious-horizons-1977100066ae |
Description | How can soil data help us tackle hidden hunger |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Facebook post showcasing the video discussing using soil data to tackle hidden hunger in Africa. 1.2K Views 34 Likes 2 Comments 23 Shares |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRothamsted%2Fvideos... |
Description | International Fertilizer Association (IFA) virtual Sustainable Fertilizer Academy (SFA). |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The SFA is targeting hundreds of fertilizer professionals and external stakeholders; its educational goal is to significantly accelerate the sustainability transformation of the industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://ifa-sfa.org |
Description | International Fertilizer Association (IFA), Agronomic biofortification to overcome hidden hunger |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Some 3 billion people in the world experience 'hidden hunger.' They might have enough rice, wheat and pulses to eat, for example, but the food lacks the vitamins and micronutrient minerals such as zinc, iron, selenium and iodine needed for normal brain development and strong immune systems. How can we use fertilizers to improve the micronutrient content of food crops? Ismail Cakmak, Professor of Plant Nutrition, Sabanci University, Turkey, and Martin Broadley, Professor and Science Director, Rothamsted Research, UK, sat down with IFA Chief Scientist Achim Dobermann to discuss how fertilizers can improve the micronutrient content of food crops - biofortification - and help tackle hidden hunger. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.fertilizer.org/Public/IFA_Resources/Podcasts/Podcasts.aspx |
Description | Iodine, selenium and technetium availability to plants: the role of chemical speciation to resolve variable transfer factors |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Oral Presentation, 34th International Society for Experimental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) Conference, 2-7 July 2018, Livingstone, Zambia. Lots of discussion and questions sparked afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://britgeopeople.blogspot.com/2018/08/34th-segh-international-conference-on.html |
Description | Landscape plotted and pieced", models of soil variation and challenges for sustainable agriculture. Inaugural Professorial Lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Inaugural Professorial Lecture, University of Nottingham, 6 November 2018, Nottingham, UK. Sparked question and discussion afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | MAPS: A tool to assess actions in food and agriculture systems to address micronutrient deficiencies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Nutrition Modeling Consortium, 8-9 November 2018, The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, USA. The intention of the tutorials was to facilitate a more profound understanding of one another's tools; and with that foundation, enhance collaboration and commitment to the Consortium's common goal of guiding countries to the tools that best suit their needs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.nyas.org/media/18638/nmc-nov2018-meeting-report-final.pdf |
Description | Managing variability and uncertainty in geochemical information on soil: from sampling to inference to communication |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Oral Presentation, 34th International Society for Experimental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) Conference, 2-7 July 2018, Livingstone, Zambia, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://segh2018.org |
Description | New funding for Zimbabwe micronutrient research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Press release via University of Nottingham |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/zimbabwe-micronutrient-research |
Description | Oral Presentation, Role of soils and fertilizer management in crop and human nutrition under contrasting smallholder cropping |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 18th International Plant Nutrition Colloquium: Plant Nutrition for Global Green Growth, 21-24 August 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark. Sparked questions and discussions afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://ipnc2017.org/ |
Description | Oral presentation "Increasing diet-acquired zinc uptake by smallholder farmers". |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lancaster Biofortification Discussion Workshop, 27 July 2017, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Predicting human selenium status based on staple crops selenium concentration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | ANH Academy Week Meeting. 25-29 June 2018, Accra, Ghana. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Progress meeting/visit to farms in Kenya for partnering award |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Jenni Dungait and Laura Cardenas attended progress meeting/visit to farms in Kenya for partnering award plus completion of GCRF proposal (Nov 2017). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Randomized interventions to measure the impact of agricultural technologies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Paper presented at the Conference "Making Smallholder Agriculture More Nutrition-Sensitive: The Role of Innovation and Extension" 22-23 March 2018, Nairobi, Kenya. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Royal Society Blog, focus on Muneta Grace Maneke |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | unknown |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/grants/africa-capacity-building/grace-manzeke/ |
Description | Selenium in Malawi: agronomic biofortification to address widespread deficiency? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Oral Presentation to the Lancaster Biofortification Discussion Workshop, 27 July 2017, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. There was questions and discussions afterwards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Smallholder fertilizer management and soil type influence grain zinc and iron concentration under contrasting cropping systems in Zimbabwe. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Oral Presentation, 34th International Society for Experimental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) Conference, 2-7 July 2018, Livingstone, Zambia, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://segh2018.org |
Description | Soil Health Policy 18th June |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Visit and workshop with Soil Policy Advisors |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Soil zinc, serum zinc, and the potential for agronomic biofortification to reduce human zinc deficiency in Ethiopia. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Paper presented at the 3rd Agriculture, Nutrition & Health (ANH) Academy Week, 25-29 June 2018, Accra, Ghana |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Spatial selenium variation in crops, soil and humans |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The 8th African Nutritional Epidemiology Conference. October 1-5, 2018, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Status of micronutrients (selenium) in Malawi: issues and trends. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 11th International Symposium on Selenium in Biology and Medicine and the 5th International Conference on Selenium in the Environment and Human Health: 200 Years of Selenium Research 1817-2017, 13-17 August 2017, Stockholm, Sweden• |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.se2017.se/ |
Description | Sub-Saharan Africa Soil Fertility Prioritization Survey |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Steve McGrath took part in the Sub-Saharan Africa Soil Fertility Prioritization Survey to support USAID efforts to prioritize future soil fertility efforts in Africa. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Tackling Malawi's hidden hunger |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | an extended piece by Rob Ounsworth (UoN) reporting on GeoNutrition activities in Malawi. Raised awareness of the work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vision/spotlight/2018/summer/tackling-malawis-hidden-hunger.aspx |
Description | Talk to BMGF Ag-Dev team June 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Shared information, sparked discussion and questions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | The London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium at Kings College , London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited to present a talk on Soil Science entitled "Improving Soils for Crop Production and Human Nutrition". by The London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium. The London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium is one of the largest BBSRC funded Doctoral Training Partnerships in the UK. Representing an exciting collaboration between six of London's world-class universities and specialist institutions, the consortium provides students with a unique opportunity to pursue innovative interdisciplinary research projects.The aim of the events was to provide a range of leading academic, industry and not for profit speakers and deliver a rounded and comprehensive subject view for each themed day. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://lido-dtp.ac.uk/ |
Description | The ethics of environmental geochemistry and health research: human participant involvement and beyond |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Oral Presentation, 34th International Society for Experimental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) Conference, 2-7 July 2018, Livingstone, Zambia, https://segh2018.org |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Wefarm visit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | To discuss how WeFarm and Rothamsted could work together |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |