Smallholder farmers throughout Africa are adopting conservation agriculture practices on their farms to improve their farming operations and their livelihoods. The soil health and resilience benefits of conservation agriculture mean these families can now afford to send their children to school, have sufficient supplies of food, have more fertile and durable farmland; and have healthier livestock.

Protecting our soils and practicing smarter methods of farming is critical. Brown Revolution: Save Our Soils,Save Our Future is an initiative to raise awareness about and promote the adoption of conservation agriculture practices. By educating farmers about the positive impact healthy soils have on productivity and conservation, as well as demonstrating an improved return on investment, we can feed the world more profitably and sustainably – now and for generations to come.

In a series of six articles, the Philanthropist Dr. Howard G. Buffett, who is a farmer and an ambassador against hunger for the United Nations’ World Food Program, Calls for a “Brown Revolution” in Africa

The articles titled

1. You can listen to the academics or you can listen to the farmers.

2. Africa' no-till revolution.

3. No-till, African style.

4. We are treating soil like dirt: Its a fatal mistake.

5. One farmer's story of Conservation Agriculture.

6. What does a $100 billion asset manager say farmers should invest in? Soil.

7. Losing the farm.

8. Assessing Africa's real potential for agriculture.

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