Conservation Agriculture: Zambia’s Double-edged Sword against Climate Change and Hunger
Nov 08 2017   Conservation Agriculture: Zambia's Double-edged Sword against Climate Change and Hunger PEMBA, Zambia, Nov 7 2017 (IPS) - As governments gather in Bonn, Germany for the next two weeks to hammer out a blueprint for implementation of the global...

Africa's Economic Future Depends on Its Farms
Oct 31 2017   Faster and more sustainable agricultural growth is essential for jobs as well as food When the economies of Nigeria and South Africa recently rebounded, it wasn't oil or minerals that did the trick. It was agriculture. Faster and more sustainable...

NCA female farmer successful with conservation agriculture (CA)
Oct 31 2017   Windhoek-Despite the consecutive droughts that have plagued Namibia in recent years, Cecilia Amutenya and her six children still have surplus food from farming on a 5-hectare piece of land in Omusati Region. All thanks to conservation agriculture...

Rebooting Subsistence Agriculture in Rural Areas
Oct 18 2017   Achieving and fulfilling the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) overwhelmingly depends on making progress in rural areas , where most of the hungry and poor live. This was the main conclusion of the new report “ The State of Food and...

Sioma Farmers in ‘taste’ of Bigger Yields
Oct 10 2017   A FIELD with rows of winter maize interspaced by huge sumptuous looking cabbages is a site for sore eyes in the undulating series of fossil sands that make up most of Western Province’s landscape. The field belongs to Sipalo Mubita, who has been...

Lesotho to Direct Smallholders Towards Climate Smart Agriculture
Oct 05 2017   World Bank Approves $10 Million For Smallholder Agriculture Development WASHINGTON, September 29, 2017 – Today, the World Bank approved a $10 million additional financing from the International Development Association (IDA)* to Lesotho’s...

World Congress on Conservation Agriculture 7 WCCA7
Oct 02 2017   Nowadays, human being ́s demand for the global agriculture is to increase quantity and quality of food production, taking care of environment, using less fossil fuel and purchased inputs, promoting biodiversity, efficiency, resilience, climate...

CSA Country Profiles for Africa
Sep 27 2017   The climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concept reflects an ambition to improve the integration of agriculture development and climate responsiveness. It aims to achieve food security and broader development goals under a changing climate and...