2018 No-Till Conference from 4 to 6 September 2018
NO-TILLCONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMBINED WITH COVER CROP WORKSHOP 4 – 6SEPTEMBER 2018 Managing Adversity with Diversity with Emerging Cover Crop Strategies by Making Cover Crops Pay THE PURPOSE AND THE TAKE HOME MESSAGE OF THIS NO-TILL CONFERENCE IS...

2ACCA CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENSION : 31st May 2018
Apr 29 2018   The Second Africa Congress on Conservation Agriculture Conference , Call for papers has been extended to 31st May 2018 . ACT encourages and wishes participants, researchers and friends to submit their papers via...

2nd Africa Congress on Conservation Agriculture
Apr 12 2018   2 nd Africa Congress on Conservation Agriculture: Supporting the Malabo Declaration and Agenda 2063 Currently, the demand from global agriculture is to increase the quantity and quality of food and agriculture production, taking care of...

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...

The Southern Africa Conservation Agriculture Regional Working Group (CARWG) Meeting
The Southern Africa Conservation Agriculture Regional Working Group (CARWG) http://carwg.act-africa.org/ was established in 2007 to coordinate the activities of organisations working to promote the introduction of conservation Agriculture (CA) in...

Reversing and Mitigating Agricultural Land Degradation Worldwide
Feb 25 2018   Reversing and Mitigating Agricultural Land Degradation Worldwide: Can Conservation Agriculture Contribute to Implementation of Land Degradation Neutrality? By Amir Kassam, Chair, ICAAP-Africa, ACT The world has lost some 400 M ha of agricultural...

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...

Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit
The objective of the Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Summit is to provide an opportunity for cross-sector networking and knowledge exchange that is competent and neutral, technical and commercial by bringing together all stakeholders, including...