Conservation Agriculture Regional Working Group (CARWG) in Southern Africa
Sep 02 2012   ACT participates at the regional working group annual workshop held in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa from 2nd - 8th September 2012. The workshop was a success and had the following key outputs: Revised Vision, Mission and activities and TOR Formation...

CA Training in Hargeisa Somalia
Sep 02 2012   African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) in partnership with FAO Somalia conducted training of trainers to 18 extension staff from various organizations and ministry of Agriculture on sorghum transplanting and conservation agriculture...

Press Release Friday 24 August, 2012: ACT calls for governments in Africa to adopt Conservation Agriculture for food security
Aug 24 2012   Africa faces many developmental challenges, including pervasive poverty, food insecurity and rampant land degradation. The causes of these challenges are varied and interlinked and the effects of climate change will worsen the situation. It is...

Climate Change Financing Mechanism
Jul 24 2012   On 24th -26th July 2012 the Global Mechanism (GM) of UNCCD, the Secretariats of the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC), and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), organized a workshop...

CA National Training South Sudan
Jul 23 2012   The CA training course was held in South Sudan at Yei Crop Training Centre (CTC) from 23rd - 27th July 2012. The training commenced by an opening speech from the Chief Guest, Mr. John Chuol, Director General, Agriculture Production and Extension of...

What did the ACT Director Prof. Dr ir. Pablo A. Tittonell says during his Chair inaugural lecture at Wageningen University?
May 31 2012   This is obviously a rhetorical question; because we know that the answer is no. Producing food for such a populous with conventional agriculture will exhaust our global oil reserves in about 12 years estimated to be 1,481,526 Million barrels given...

CA awareness workshop in Kenya
May 30 2012   The African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) in collaboration with other stakeholders including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Kenya organized information sharing workshop on Conservation Agriculture (CA) on...

Europe Day Celebrations:
May 09 2012   Europe Day was celebrated on 9th May in Nairobi, Kenya . In Kenya, the European Union Delegation focused the celebration on EU support to research for development. The primary and overarching objective of EU development policy is the eradication of...