Parched Earth soaks up water, slowing sea level rise
Feb 12 2016   The global water cycle involves the flow of moisture, from the evaporation over the oceans to the fall of precipitation. As glaciers melt due to climate change, the increasingly hot and parched Earth is absorbing some of that water inland, slowing...

Maize productivity and profitability in Conservation Agriculture systems across agro-ecological regions in Zimbabwe: A review of knowledge and practice
Feb 12 2016   Conservation agriculture (CA) is increasingly promoted in southern Africa as a strategy to improve food security and reverse soil degradation in the face of climate change. However, the performance of CA under different environments and its ability...

Supply and Installation of Water tanks and Roof Water Harvesting Works
AFRICAN CONSERVATION TILLAGE NETWORK REF:TN/ACT/INUKA INVITATION TO BID ACT BID- TN-ACT2016-01201 Supply and Installation of Water tanks and Roof Water Harvesting Works ABOUT ACT The African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) is a Pan-African...

First International Conference Afro-Mediterranean Soils: Constraints and Potentialities for durable management- Marrakech- Morocco
Jan 21 2016   The first international conference on Afro- Mediterranean soils was held from the 18-19 th December 2015 at the Palmeraie Golf palace hotel in Marrakech- Morocco. The two day conference was organized by the National Agricultural Research Institute...

International Year of Pulses 2016
Jan 21 2016   The 68th UN General Assembly declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses (IYP). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been nominated to facilitate the implementation of the Year in collaboration with Governments,...

Ecosystem-based farming comes of age
Jan 19 2016   A new FAO book takes a close look at how the world's major cereals maize, rice and wheat - which together account for an estimated 42.5 percent of human calories and 37 percent of our protein - can be grown in ways that respect and even leverage...

Farming Forward for Climate Change: a Manifesto for Action
Jan 12 2016   Global decision makers need to adopt sensible action plans for sustainable food production in a changing climate. Conservation Agriculture systems provide an appropriate response with proven technology and farmer support. COP21 provided an...

Minimum tillage unpuddled transplanting: An alternative crop establishment strategy for rice in conservation agriculture cropping systems
Dec 14 2015   Adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) has been hampered in puddled rice-based cropping systems. In this study, the authors developed a method for transplanting rice (Oryza sativa L.) with minimal soil disturbance(referred to as minimum tillage...

Conservation Agriculture ToT training for Farmers, Researchers and Extension officers under the SIMLESA project, NARO Uganda
Nov 28 2015   The Sustainable Intensification of Maize and Legumes in East and South Africa (SIMLESA) is a CIMMYT regional project implemented in five core countries of Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique and in three spillover countries of Uganda,...

1st International Conference Afro-Mediterranean Soils: Constrains and Potentialities for Durable Management
Healthy soils are crucial for ensuring food and fiber productions, resilience, adaptation and mitigation to climate change and variability. These challenges are more alarming in Afro-Mediterranean countries. As global economic growth and...