Key Findings from CGIAR report on Planning Climate adaptation in Agriculture
Nov 14 2013   This meta-synthesis of national climate change adaptation plans, policies and processes spans twelve countries at various stages of adaptation planning and implementation, in three priority CCAFS regions: West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali,...

No-Till or Zero-Tillage Systems - Conservation Tillage
Nov 14 2013   No-tillage is generally defined as planting crops into soil that has remained untilled after the harvest of the previous crop. Conservation tillage includes the WHEN and HOW this tillage is done. The "when" basically refers to the moisture-state of...

ACT Concludes CA Training of Trainers in Malawi
Oct 28 2013   To the Conservation agriculturists, CA is the way to go. But this is not the case for Kezia. For her Conservation Agriculture means "Hard labour, measuring basins, digging the holes, carrying mature, getting the stovers or any other cover...

Conservation Agriculture: Tips for Extension officers and Farmer Trainers
Oct 17 2013   Adoption of Conservation Agriculture To facilitate change in production system towards CA, it is important to understand why farmers think that soil tillage is such an important part of their system. Soil is being tilled in order to break-up the...

Ripping Triple production- an interview with Sebastian Msolla at the National Agriculture Farmer’s show- Dodoma, Tanzania
Oct 16 2013   In an interview with Sebastian during the National Agriculture farmer’s show at Dodoma, He said, " I fabricated these three frames for rippers, and the ripper/tine I sourced from somewhere where it had been thrown away as scrap. I started with...

Conservation Agriculture helps farmers improve their agricultural productivity and soil fertility in Southern highlands of Tanzania
Oct 15 2013   " I have used the technology in first season and harvested 7 bag from 4 and less running cost. Now I am waiting to harvest the second season which I am sure to get more than 10 bags per acre . I have increased my farming acreage from two acres to...

Now online: an educational series on family farming
Oct 09 2013   "Have you always looked for ways to learn more about the principles of sustainable agriculture? Are you curious about the values that underlay agro-ecological practices around the world? Have you been searching exercises and games to teach students...

Investors in Africa urged to consider agriculture to boost food security
Oct 09 2013   Food insecurity and poverty will continue to persist on the continent unless a proper strategy is formulated to encourage private investments in agriculture sector, participants at an agribusiness forum in Kigali have said.The three-day conference...

ACT-WCA on Student Jury under the ABACO Project
The African Conservation Tillage Network, West and Central Africa will be Participating in the Jury of a BSc ACT Student intern. The Topic of the research is "Analysis of the efficiency and sustainability of Farmer Field Schools as framework for...

ACT-WCA to make Key Note presentation at the World Bank, ECOWAS and NEPAD meeting on Climate Change - Burkina Faso
Oct 04 2013   ACT West and Central Africa will make a keynote presentation at the World Bank, ECOWAS and NEPAD workshop on climate change. Topic of the presentation "Potential and modalities of conservation agriculture - based climate smart farming in WCA"...