Ten Truths About Conservation Agriculture and Smallholder Farmers
May 06 2016   There are growing numbers of smallholder farmers throughout the developing world who are successfully implementing conservation agriculture practices adapted to specific local conditions and existing crop and livestock production customs. As a...

Towards a Conservation Agriculture targeting tool for project implementers in Africa: Identifying the main elements- the QAToCA tool
Apr 21 2016   Introduction Targeting Conservation Agriculture (CA) remains a major challenge in the context of Africa’s heterogeneous agro-ecologies, farmers and farming systems, socio-economic and institutional environments. Although CA can stabilize and...

Ghanaian Ministry of Food and Agriculture has rolled out series of Conservation Agriculture technologies in a move to mitigate Ghanaian farmers against climate change.
Apr 20 2016   The technologies will help farmers to conserve soil moisture, especially in areas where there is minimum tillage of the soil. "Because of climate change, what the ministry is essentially doing is introducing farmers to technologies that will help...

Push-Pull Technology
Apr 14 2016   Consultative meeting on the implementation of "organic" push-pull based Conservation Agriculture technology in Zambia and Malawi in ICIPE Thomas Odhiambo Campus Over 60% of Africans depend on some form of farming for their sustenance and...

Zimbabwe’s farming wizard grows bumper crop in worst drought in years
Mar 24 2016   “The project teaches techniques to help farmers improve their harvests while cutting their costs. The methods include mulching fields to save water, planting crops in dug-out basins filled with manure, planting different types of crops together...

International Year of Pulses 2016
Mar 16 2016   International Year of Pulses 2016 The 68th UN General Assembly declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses (IYP) ( A/RES/68/231 )The Global Pulse Confederation and its IYP 2016 partners have identified a series of thematic areas that will be the...

Conservation Agriculture: for smallholder farmers in Africa?
Mar 16 2016   Conservation Agriculture (CA) increasingly dominates debates on agricultural development policy in Africa. Over the past decade lots of (donor) money has been spent on the promotion of CA to smallholder farmers and often such interventions have...

Farm Machinery for Conservation Agriculture
Feb 29 2016   Conservation Agriculture a farming strategy based on three principles of minimum soil disturbance (or direct seeding), permanent vegetative soil cover and crop rotation is seen as the alternative to tillage, with multiple benefits with regard to...