Ciara Varley, Angahrad Johnston, Charles Spillane. 20th March 2024 – IITA Chitedze, Lilongwe, Malawi Dr. Marcos Lana, Affiliate Investigator on the LEG4DEV project from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), visited members of the LEG4DEV project team researchers who are conducting research out of the International Instituet for Tropical Agrocuilture (IITA) country station in…

Isabel McLaughlin, Angahrad Johnston, Charles Spillane. 16th February 2024  During the visit of Dr. Jennie Barron, Affiliate Investigator on the LEG4DEV project from SLU (Sweden), LEG4DEV held a mini-progress meeting in IITA Zambia with Dr. Barron where LEG4DEV funded researchers from Uni of Galway and SLU (based out of IITA) gave updates on their ongoing…

Isabel McLaughlin, Angahrad Johnston, Charles Spillane. 16 Dec 2023 In December 2023, the LEG4DEV research project, funded through the EU Commission’s DeSIRA Initiative, concluded their second Research Progress Meeting for 2023, reviewing the ongoing progress by the LEG4DEV researchers across the project’s Activity Areas.   In addition to fortnightly progress meetings for each Activity Area research…

October 2022 A joint team of PPS-WUR, CIMMYT and TARI-Uyole researchers*, trained extension workers and lead-farmers in the use of the Farmer-MBA (Management-Based-Advisory) mobile phone application, in Songwe region of Tanzania. Farmer-MBA provides field-specific agronomic advice for maize and leguminous crops like common beans, groundnuts and soya. 1-15 October 2022 – Dr. Jens Andersson, Dr…

Recently, Prof. Charles Spillane and Dr Kieran Fitzpatrick undertook the first of many international trips to help advance LEG4DEV’s aims and objectives, Prof. Spillane visiting a trade and entrepreneurship event in Uganda and Dr Fitzpatrick visiting project partners in Wageningen, the Netherlands.