Land Soil Crop Hubs

📢 New LSC-IS policy brief now available, summarising findings from a needs assessment on establishing Land, Soil, and Crop Information Hubs in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda. 👉📗 Read more: lsc-hubs.org/2025/09/04/pol…

After five years of collaboration, the Land, Soil and Crop Information Services to support Climate-Smart Agriculture in Eastern Africa (LSC-IS) project @ProjectLSC has successfully concluded with a regional closing event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Funded by the @EU_Commission DeSIRA Programme, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@minbuza), and @ISRICorg, this five-year initiative (2021–2025) has strengthened data-driven agricultural decision-making in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda. At its core are the Land, Soil, and Crop Hubs digital platforms that consolidate and connect existing datasets to support evidence-based agricultural planning and climate-smart innovation. Implemented by Wageningen University & Research, with partners including @ISRICorg, @ILRI, @kalromkulima, @EIAR, @RwandaAgriBoard, @CIFOR_ICRAF, @IUCN, @ASARECA , and German Aerospace Center (DLR) @DLR_en, the project stands as a model of collaborative science and regional transformation. Congratulations to all partners and stakeholders for their shared commitment to advancing sustainable and climate-smart agriculture in Eastern Africa.

Since 2021, the project has been active in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda, developing LSC Hubs to consolidate and connect existing datasets and information sources. The hubs offer open-access tools and data to support evidence-based agricultural decision-making.

Today, we celebrated the successful completion of our five-year journey with a closing event in Addis Ababa. Co-funded by the @EU_Commission DeSIRA programme, @DutchMFA Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ISRIC.

In September, @MusefaRedi1, PhD candidate at WUR and whose research contributes to LSC-IS, delivered a training on the application of the ISRIC Seedling Workflow for Digital Soil Mapping to the Africa Soil Information Community of Practice. Read more: lsc-hubs.org/2025/09/26/app…

🔍 LSC Hubs is looking for an experienced evaluator to conduct an end-of-term review of the project. For more information, please read and download the terms of reference here: lsc-hubs.org/2025/10/13/lsc…

🎉 LSC-IS was pleased to join the launch of the African Union Soil Observatory (AUSO) yesterday in Nairobi! AUSO is being developed under @FARAinfo leadership, with support from EU Horizon Programme and in collaboration with African and European partners: auso.faraafrica.org

🎙️Introducing the speakers for tomorrow's #ACS2 side event, "Farming the future: Land, soil & crop hubs for climate-smart agriculture and rural transformation." ⤵️

This week we are at the @ACS2ET in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia! 🇪🇹 Join our #ACS2 side event "Farming the future: Land, soil & crop hubs for climate-smart agriculture and rural transformation" on 10 September from 09:30 to 11:00 in Room AP4. We look forward to seeing you there!

Last month, @kalromkulima and @ISRICorg organised a 4-day training on 'LSC hub operation and maintenance' in Naivasha, Kenya. The purpose of the training was to strengthen KALRO's capacity to host, maintain, and operate the national LSC hub: lsc-hubs.org/2025/08/25/kal…

🇷🇼 On 2-6 June, 71 stakeholders, including national and district officials and IT specialists, gathered in Kigali to co-develop a roadmap to integrate the LSC-Hub into Rwanda’s national agricultural system. Read more: lsc-hubs.org/2025/06/13/wor…

🇪🇹 Learn more about our National Workshop on Advancing Climate-Smart Agriculture through Ethiopia's LSC-Hub, held in Addis Ababa from May 26 to May 30, 2025: lsc-hubs.org/2025/05/30/wor… @MoA_Ethiopia @InstituteEiar @ILRI @ISRICorg @ASARECA @IUCN

The 5-day meeting on “Advancing Climate-Smart Agric through Rwanda’s LSC Hub,” held in Kigali, has concluded. Participants reviewed progress in the devt of the LSC-Hub, gathered feedback from national and subnational stakeholders&explored integration with other digital platforms.

As we conclude a highly productive #Day2 of the Rwanda LSC-Hub workshop, the momentum continues to build. Dr. André Kooiman, Senior Sustainable Land Management Expert at @ISRICorg and @ProjectLSC Hubs Project Coordinator, commended the progress made in the development of the LSC-Hub, applauding the teams for their dedication to co-creating a platform that reflects the needs of farmers, institutions, and development partners. His remarks reinforced the importance of collaborative, data-driven approaches to achieving sustainable agricultural transformation. Dr. John Recha, Project Manager,@ILRI expertly facilitated an engaging round of group feedback, guiding participants through technical discussions on how the Hub can be refined to better serve end users across Rwanda’s agricultural landscape. Looking ahead to #Day3, discussions will shift to: ▶️Institutionalizing the LSC-Hub within Rwanda’s national agriculture systems ▶️ Establishing a robust monitoring and learning framework ▶️ Designing sustainable scaling strategies

📷After a productive workshop in Ethiopia last week, we are in Kigali for the National Workshop on Advancing Climate-Smart Agriculture through Rwanda’s LSC-Hub. Stakeholders will review progress and co-develop a roadmap to embed the Hub in Rwanda’s national agriculture systems 🇷🇼

.@MusefaRedi1, whose research contributes to LSC-IS, presenting his PhD research paper "Mapping soil fertility properties in central Ethiopia at 100 m spatial resolution" during day 2 of the National Workshop on Advancing Climate-Smart Agriculture through Ethiopia’s LSC-Hub⤵️

RT @ASARECA: #Day2 Today's sessions are centered on building user confidence and increasing platform familiarity through interactive, hands…

#Day1 of the National Workshop on Advancing Climate-Smart Agriculture through Ethiopia’s LSC-Hub is in full swing at @ILRI, Addis Ababa. Today’s sessions focus on the technical foundation of the LSC-Hub, including: 🎯Architectural design 🎯Data compilation 🎯System building 🎯Soil, land, crop mapping 🎯Soil functional mapping 🎯Capacity building for hub content management Under #WorkPackage3, @ISRICorg is actively collaborating with Acatech Technology to co-design and co-develop the LSC-Hub, working closely with @MoA_Ethiopia and other key national partners. A major milestone is the integration of the LSC-Hub with Ethiopia’s National Agricultural Data Hub, ensuring interoperability, governance alignment, and infrastructure readiness to support national-scale agricultural digitization. The team also presents real-world use cases such as: - Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) - Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM) These use cases are being piloted in Basona Werana and Adami Tulu Jido Kombolcha districts, providing scalable models for future rollout across Ethiopia. @ILRI, @InstituteEiar, @ICRAF, @RwandaAgriBoard, @ProjectLSC, @kalromkulima, @EU_Commission.. #LSCHub #DigitalAg #SmartFarming #SmartAgriculture #SoilHealth #AgData #ClimateSmartAgriculture #Interoperability #DataDrivenFarming #Ethiopia #InnovationInAgriculture

🇪🇹 The National Workshop on Advancing Climate-Smart Agriculture through Ethiopia’s LSC-Hub began today in Addis Ababa! Stakeholders from @MoA_Ethiopia, @InstituteEiar, @ILRI, ISRIC, WUR, @ASARECA and @IUCN will plan LSC-Hub institutionalisation, scaling and sustainability🌱

In recent months, @kalromkulima & @EIARPRgov teams, w/ @ISRICorg & @acatech_tc support, have actively worked on integrating LSC Hub into their existing systems. Although still under development, these can be accessed via: 🇰🇪 lschub.kalro.org 🇪🇹 lsc-hub.moa.gov.et/#/