2020 Soybean Innovation Lab Activities and Impacts Report

The Tropical Soybean Information Portal: tropicalsoybean.com Transparent information systems are critical to successful network formation as members derive significant benefits from information platforms including data and resource sharing, connections to new partners and funders, and a curated repository of extension materials and research findings. A functioning information network did not exist for African soybean breeders, agronomists, processors, and economists – the practitioners that will continue to advance soybean production and utilization across Sub-Saharan Africa for decades to come.

In response, SIL developed a management information system for the growing African soybean network of managers, researchers, extensionists, and policymakers: the Tropical Soybean Information Portal (TSIP). The TSIP houses tropical soybean data, extension resources, publications, videos, online courses, and recipes in an open-access and searchable platform.