Network of Dry Spectroscopy Laboratories Africa Country Lab Location Instrument Benin AfricaRice Cotonou MIR HTS-XT Tensor 27 Cameroon International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Yaoundé MIR KBr Cameroon World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Yaoundé MIR KBr Cote D’Ivoire Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA) Abidjan MIR KBr Cote D’Ivoire World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Yamoussoukro MIR ZnSe Ethiopia Ethiopia Agricultural Transformation Agency- ATA/National Soils Testing Centre (NSTC) Addis Ababa MIR KBr MIR HTS-XT Tensor 27 LDPSA Ethiopia Ethiopia Agricultural Transformation Agency- ATA Nekmte Jimma Hawassa Bahir Dar Mekelle MIR KBr (5) Ethiopia Mekelle University/University of Berne Mekelle MIR KBr Ghana Centre for Scientific Research & Industrial Organizations Soil Research Institute (CSRIO-SRI) Kumasi MIR ZnSe pXRF Tracer 5i Kenya Kenya Agricultural Research and Livestock Institute (KARLO), NARL, Lower Kabete Nairobi MIR KBr Kenya The Soil Cares Initiative Nairobi MIR KBr Kenya One Acre Fund Bungoma MIR KBr Kenya Crop Nutrition Laboratory Services Ltd Nairobi MIR KBr NIR MPA Kenya Soil-Plant Spectroscopy Laboratory, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Nairobi Field VNIR MIR KBr MIR ZnSe MIR HTS-XT Tensor 27 pXRF Tracer 5i (2) LDPSA XRD Madagascar University of Antananarivo, Madagascar (collaborative). Antananarivo MIR HTS-XT Tensor 27 Malawi Chitedze Agricultural Research Station (CARS), DARTS Chitedze NIR MPA MIR ZnSe Mali Institut d'Economie Rurale (IER) Sotuba, Bamako NIR MPA
Morocco Centre for Soils and Fertilizer Research in Africa Laboratories, Mohammed Vi Polytechnic University under OCP-Africa (in progress) Ben Guerir MIR HTS-XT Tensor II MIR ZnSe pXRF Tracer 5i LDPSA XRD Mozambique Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IAMM) Maputo NIR MPA Nigeria Obafemi Awolowo University Ibadan MIR KBr Nigeria International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ibadan MIR KBr pXRF Tracer 5i Nigeria Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University Zaria MIR KBr Nigeria Ibadan National Soil Testing Lab, Federal Department Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development (FDMA&RD) Ibadan MIR KBr Nigeria Federal Department Ministry of Agriculture &Rural Development (FDMA&RD), Kaduna National Soil Testing Lab. Kaduna MIR KBr South Africa KwaZulu-Natal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Kwazulu, Natal Field VNIR MIR ZnSe (ATR) Tanzania Selian Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries Arusha MIR KBr MIR ZnSe pXRF Tracer 5i Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries Arusha Ukiliguru Mulingano Uyole MIR ZnSe (4) Tanzania Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania Morogoro MIR ZnSe Outside Africa Australia Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (collaborative exchange) Canberra MIR HTS-XT Tensor 27 China Yunnan Phosphate Chemical Group Co. Ltd (YPC) Yunnan, Kunming MIR ZnSe pXRF Tracer III India CIMMYT-India, CSISA Office, Complex for Eastern Region Bihar MIR ZnSe pXRF Tracer 5i India India Institute of Soil Science (IISS) Bhopal MIR ZnSe pXRF Tracer III Peru Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonia Peruana (IIAP) Iquitos, Loreto MIR ZnSe United Kingdom Rothamsted Research Harpenden, Hertfordshire MIR HTS-XT Tensor II MIR ZnSe pXRF Tracer 5i LDPSA