5th ECHO East Africa Symposium on Sustainable Agriculture and Appropriate Technologies
Invitation to ECHO East Africa Symposium 12th - 14th February 2019 Greetings! You are cordially invited to join us for the ECHO East Africa Symposium 2019. We hope that you will make time to gather with us at this very important and effective...

Rwanda’s first Institute for Conservation Agriculture opens in 2019
Nov 20 2018   Rwanda's first Institute for Conservation Agriculture opens in 2019 The first ever Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture to prepare the country’s next generation of agriculture leaders and those of the whole East African region opens in...

African Union Kwame Nkrumah Awards for Scientific Excellence (AUKNASE): Continental & Regional Awards 2018 Edition
Jul 12 2018   The Commission of the African Union is committed to support the use and development of science, technology and innovation in Africa and has, since 2008 been running the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Awards for Scientific Excellence (AUKNASE) . These...

Water shortages could affect 5bn people by 2050, UN report warns
Mar 19 2018   Water shortages could affect 5bn people by 2050, UN report warns Conflict and civilisational threats likely unless action is taken to reduce the stress on rivers, lakes, aquifers, wetlands and reservoirs Jonathan Watts in Brasília Mon 19 Mar 2018...

Science Can Reverse 'New Normal' of Hunger and Climate Disaster
Feb 27 2018   For the first time in a decade, world hunger has also risen once more to affect an estimated 815 million people. Regions facing conflict in combination with the impact of droughts and floods fared the worst in parts of Africa and Asia.This, coupled...

Strengthening Education and Innovation in Conservation Agriculture for Improved livelihoods in Africa
Feb 23 2018   Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a venerable, old age practice by farmers world-wide that rests on three pillars, namely minimum mechanical soil disturbance, continuous soil cover and crop rotation (diversification). There are many global efforts...

The Future of Farming: Exploring Climate Smart Agriculture How can we adapt farming to an
Feb 22 2018   "The Future of Farming " is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) developed by the University of Reading and Future Learn that’s running from 5 March for a new cohort of students. Can Climate Smart Agriculture...

Women Sow Seeds to Build Climate Resilience in Senegal
Jan 19 2018   Women sow seeds, not division to build climate resilience in Senegal By Clothilde Goujard in News , Politics | January 18th 2018 #754 of 755 articles from the Special Report: Climate Women inspect pigeonpea during the flowering season in East...

Climate-smart agriculture key to Paris Agreement goals
Jan 12 2018   Attendees at the annual Global Landscape Forum conference in Bonn, Germany, this week sought approaches for implementing “climate-smart” agricultural practices to help keep global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees...

Conservation Agriculture: Zambia’s Double-edged Sword against Climate Change and Hunger
Nov 08 2017   Conservation Agriculture: Zambia's Double-edged Sword against Climate Change and Hunger PEMBA, Zambia, Nov 7 2017 (IPS) - As governments gather in Bonn, Germany for the next two weeks to hammer out a blueprint for implementation of the global...