Study Finds that Smallholder Farmers Need More Support to Adopt Conservation Agriculture Practices
Feb 16 2016   Conservation agriculture can be economically beneficial for many countries, while also promoting restorative soil management by improving soil nutrition and fertility, according to the Conservation Agriculture Group at Cornell University. A recent...

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...

Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance launched
May 28 2015   The inaugural session of the first Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance Forum took place from the 13 th to 15 th May 2015 at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Organized by the NEPAD Agency in conjunction with the African Union Commission, the Climate...