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...

TECHNICAL SEMINAR: An overview of Conservation Agriculture
The FAO Technical Network on Sustainable Crop Production and Agroecology is pleased to invite you to the following seminar: An overview of Conservation Agriculture Credits: FAO Wednesday 6 November 2019 14:30 – 15:30 PM (Rome Time – CEST) AGD...

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...

How the Anglican church is revolutionising Kenyan farming
Jul 11 2019   In decades gone by, farmers living in the parched and semi-arid parts of Kenya experienced prolonged dry spells that brought hunger-related deaths and health complications.The East African nation is predominantly rain-fed making it highly...

Tanzania Conservation Agriculture Stakeholders’ Workshop: Sharing Lessons and Experiences in Promotion of Conservation Agriculture
The Tanzania Conservation Agriculture Stakeholders' Workshop: Sharing Lessons and Experiences in Promotion of Conservation Agriculture jointly organised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries, Ministry of Environment...