8WCCA: 4th ANNOUNCEMENT
Jun 24 2020   The future of farming Profitable and Sustainable Farming with Conservation Agriculture 8WCCA: 4th ANNOUNCEMENT On behalf of the International Organizing Committee, it is a pleasure to confirm the new dates and arrangements for the 8th World...

Climate Mitigation Potential of Regenerative Agriculture issignificant!
Jun 11 2020   In a recent World Resources Institute (WRI) blog post entitled “Regenerative Agriculture: Good for Soil Health , but Limited Potential to Mitigate Climate Change”, Ranganathan etal. (2020), dismiss the potential for regenerative agriculture to...

Regenerative Agriculture: Good for Soil Health, but Limited Potential to Mitigate Climate Change
Jun 11 2020   A farmer uses a no-till planter. Photo by United Soybean Board/Flickr Agriculture needs to close an 11-gigaton greenhouse gas (GHG) gap between expected emissions in 2050 and those needed to hold global warming below 2 o C . Several noteworthy...

Government of Ethiopia Embarks on Building the Pillars for Massive Adoption of Conservation Agriculture
Apr 22 2020   Government of Ethiopia Embarks on Building the Pillars for Massive Adoption of Conservation Agriculture Hon Dr. Kaba Urgessa State Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resource and Food Security, made the key pronunciations on the Ethiopian...

Climate Adapted Farming Methods in Zambia: Improving CA performance through appropriate mechanization
Apr 17 2020   Climate Adapted Farming Methods in Zambia: Improving CA performance through appropriate mechanization Are small-scale and emergent farmers able to practise mechanized Conservation Agriculture in Zambia? The Mechanized Conservation Agriculture (MCA)...

Conservation Agriculture Regional Working Group (CARWG) Planning Meeting
The CARWG will hold its annual planning meeting from March 23-26, 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa . During this meeting, an inception workshop for the CARWG support project will be held to validate planned project outputs and operational...

Regional Mechanisation Workshop with special focus on Hire Services held in Kampala
Dec 19 2019   On December 10th, 2019, Country representatives and Heads of Agricultural Mechanisation Departments from Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia, Ghana, and Uganda convened in Kampala for a regional Workshop opened by Hon. Joy Kabatsi the State Minister...

Regional Conservation Agriculture Dialogue: Efforts to upscale the uptake of conservation agriculture underway
Oct 23 2019   While an estimated 70% of the population of Southern Africa relies on agriculture for livelihoods as well as food and nutrition security, there are growing challenges, resulting from climate change and variability, which affect production. The...

Regional Conservation Agriculture Dialogue meeting 2019
Regional Conservation Agriculture Dialogue meeting 2019 September 25- 27, 2019, Lusaka, Zambia Southern Africa has an estimated 300 million people to feed. Industrialization is still in its infancy. This leaves agriculture as the main stay for an...

Seminar: Sustainable and Climate-Smart Agriculture: Developing Networks and Synergies between Africa and Europe
Feb 07 2019   On 8th February,2029, 0930 - 1100hrs in FAO Headquarter, Austria Room , Rome, Africa Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) and the European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF) join FAO in discussing the need to develop networks and synergies...