Mr. Martin Bwalya (Director)
Mr. Martin Bwalya is the Head of Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) under The NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency.He has over twenty (20) years of active and practical experience working on Africa’s development...

Dr. Joseph Mureithi (Director)
Dr. Joseph Mureithi is the Deputy Director General [Livestock], at Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO). Prior to this, he served as the Deputy Director for Research and Technology, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, a...

Dr. Robert Zougmore (Director)
Dr Robert B. Zougmore is currently the Regional Program Leader Program Management Committee, Research program on Climate change Agriculture and food security (CCAFS). Before joining CCAFS, he was a senior staff within the Environment Program of the...

Eng. Saidi Mkomwa
Saidi Mkomwa is a Conservation Agriculture advocate in Africa with over 30 years’ experience in rural agriculture training, research and development. He is the Executive Director of the African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT)...

Dr. Frank Place (Director)
Frank Place is a senior research Fellow at IFPRI under the Policies, Institutions and markets division. Prior to this he worked at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) responsible for designing and undertaking research on the impacts of the World...

Mr. Edward Chuma (Director)
Mr. Edward Chuma is a Process Facilitator and founder member of The Institute for People, Innovation and Change in Organisations (PICO) Southern Africa.He has over twenty years’ experience with special focus to interactive innovation development...

Mr. Reynolds K. Shula (Chairperson)
Mr. Shula is the Chairperson of the African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) management Board, and Country Representative for the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (WASWC). Mr Shula is currently a Senior Technical Officer (Land...

Smallholder farmers can aid the uptake of research fruits and drive grassroots innovations.
Feb 05 2015   The 1960s' Green Revolution demonstrated how technological innovations can transform agriculture High-yielding crop strains, irrigation, fertilisers and pesticides were brought into developing countries, including India and the Philippines,...

Which principles of conservation agriculture contribute to the desired effects?
Jan 27 2015   Exempt from an article “Conservation agriculture and smallholder farming in Africa: The heretics” Conservation agriculture was introduced as a concept for resource-efficient agricultural crop production based on an integrated management of...

Beating Famine Conference
The World Agroforestry Centre and World Vision are convening a Southern Africa Regional ‘Beating Famine Conference’ in Lilongwe, Malawi on 14-17 April, 2015. The conference will be a successor to the highly successful Beating Famine Conference...