Secondments
Winnie Ntinyari, a Research fellow at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and PhD graduate student at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, recently began a 6-month secondment at Aarhus University, Denmark, as part of the H2020 MSCA-RISE INSA project. During her secondment, Winnie will be working on modelling nitrogen flows for smallholder farms in Kenya. […]
Secondments
An important goal of the INSA project is to communicate the importance of nitrogen management to the decision makers of tomorrow and the broader community. To help meet this objective, the INSA project is collaborating with the association Les Petit.e.s Débrouillard.e.s d’Occitanie (APDOC), a French non-for-profit organization dedicated to science popularisation. In January 2022, Alexandre […]
Events
After much anticipation, the first INSA workshop was held in February 2022 in Abidjan, Côte d’ivoire. The workshop was hosted by Felix Houphouët Boigny University (FHBU) and brought together research scientists, PhD students and stakeholders to share, discuss and brainstorm on the topic of nitrogen management in Africa. In addition to presentations by both researchers […]
Secondments
In December 2021, the University of Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier welcomed Sylvain Gnamien, a PhD student from Felix Houphouët-Boigny University (FHBU) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, under the joint supervision of Prof. Véronique Yoboué (FHBU) and Dr Cathy Liousse, a CNRS researcher from the Aerology Lab (LAERO) in Toulouse. Sylvain spent three months in Toulouse […]
Secondments
Catherine Mathenge is a Ph.D. student at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, sponsored by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). She is supervised by Dr. Cargele Masso from IITA, Dr. Stephen Mureithi from the University of Nairobi and Dr. Benjamin Nyilitya from the Ministry of Water and Sanitation, Kenya. For her thesis, Catherine is […]
Secondments
Aristide Akpo and Venance Donnou from the Abomey-Calavi University (ACU) in Benin arrived in Toulouse at the beginning of October for a two-month secondment at the Aerology Laboratory (LAERO) as part of the INSA project. Aristide Akpo is a Full Professor specialising in atmospheric physics and meteorology. Over the last 15 years he has worked […]
Secondments
Funded by the INSA project, Miriam Kasebele, a PhD Student under the supervision of Dr Lutz Breuer at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, is currently visiting the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya. For her PhD, Miriam is looking at understanding the fluxes of nitrogen and hydrology in the Mau catchment, Kenya. During […]
Secondments
“School’s back” in Toulouse, and the beginning of the academic year also sees the arrival two new visitors to LAERO: Vincent Aduramigba-Modupe from the Institut of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T) in Nigeria, and Rachel Otieno from the Kenyan Water Resources Authority in Kenya. Vincent Aduramigba-Modupe is a Senior Research Fellow and developmental soil scientist […]
News
The “Aux sciences Citoyen.ne.s” festival, organized by Les Petits Débrouillards d’Occitanie each September, this year focused on sol qui peut!, which directly translates as soil that can! Dr Claire Delon, CNRS research scientist and INSA project coordinator, presented the INSA project to the broader community at an evening dedicated to small discussion groups between invited […]