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  1. Looking back on 20 Years of ACT
    Nov 09 2016   Looking back on 20 Years of ACT by Kurt Steiner, co-founder of the network First contacts with Conservation Agriculture or Direct Planting System It was in 1996 when I was invited by a GTZ colleague to participate in a workshop held in Paraguay on...
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  2. Sub-regional Workshop on Investments in Climate-Smart Agriculture FAO Eastern Africa
    Sub-regional Workshop on Investments in Climate-Smart Agriculture FAO Eastern Africa 02 November 2016 – 03 November 2016 Hotel TBA Kigali, Rwanda Background The Eastern Africa sub-region is among the regions in the world most affected by and...
  3. The initial reaction of farmers and gardeners when they hear the words “bacteria, fungi,nematodes” is to reach for the closest bottle of pesticide and rush off to their fields to apply that pesticide in abundance. Fortunately, only a very small portion ...
  4. Despite nearly two decades of promotion and evidence of yield benefits associated with CA in Zambia, adoption rates by smallholder farmers at the national level using nation-wide representative survey data remain low, while dis-adoption is widespread. ...
  5. Conservation Agriculture (CA) has been promoted in Zambia since the mid-1980s by government, private sector, cooperating partners, and a number of non-governmental organisations to varying degrees in terms of coverage area, operational approach, time ...
  6. Various studies in Sub-Saharan Africa have examined relevance and effectiveness of national agricultural policies with respect to implementation of Conservation Agriculture (CA). This synopsis observes that public and private investments will reach full ...
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