Break the chain of desperation that leads to emergencies, development leaders told
Feb 29 2016   Against a backdrop of new reports that show the number of refugees entering Europe has continued to skyrocket, senior government officials attending the final day of the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s 39th Governing Council,...

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...

International Year of Pulses 2016
Jan 21 2016   The 68th UN General Assembly declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses (IYP). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been nominated to facilitate the implementation of the Year in collaboration with Governments,...

Ecosystem-based farming comes of age
Jan 19 2016   A new FAO book takes a close look at how the world's major cereals maize, rice and wheat - which together account for an estimated 42.5 percent of human calories and 37 percent of our protein - can be grown in ways that respect and even leverage...

Mobile applications for weather and climate information: their use and potential for smallholder farmers
Jan 14 2016   Mobile phones are increasingly being used to provide smallholder farmers with agricultural and related information. There is currently great interest in their scope to communicate climate and weather information. Farmers consistently identify...