Incentives could create a tipping point in conservation agriculture adoption
Jan 30 2018   Incentives could create a tipping point in conservation agriculture adoption By Andrew Reid Bell, Patrick Ward, Lawrence Mapemba, Tim Benton, Klaus Droppelmann, Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek, Frazer Mataya and Oliver Pierson Conservation agriculture (CA)...

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...

Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Congress
The inaugural Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Congress will take place on 6-7 March 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya. Organised by the Aid & International Development Forum (AIDF), the Congress brings together senior representatives from ministries of...

Modern farming works in Laikipia, Kenya
Nov 17 2017   Modern farming works in Laikipia, Kenya Farmers in Laikipia county are multiplying their yields and doubling their profits thanks to conservation agriculture, which is a low-cost farming technique. Jennifer Muthoni has a one-acre farm in...

Farmers can Boost Crop Yields and Contribute over 1 Gigatonne of Emissions Reductions
Nov 17 2017   Farmers can Boost Crop Yields and Contribute over 1 Gigatonne of Emissions Reductions A new international study shows that carbon removal from the atmosphere through sequestration by agricultural soils could deliver annual emissions reductions...

African Youth go Digital to Keep Climate-Smart Farming Alive
Nov 14 2017   African campaigners are promoting digital tools to keep young people involved in farming and prevent migration, delegates heard on the sidelines of climate talks in Bonn, Germany. Youth unemployment averages 10.8% across sub-Saharan Africa, while...

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...

Africa's Economic Future Depends on Its Farms
Oct 31 2017   Faster and more sustainable agricultural growth is essential for jobs as well as food When the economies of Nigeria and South Africa recently rebounded, it wasn't oil or minerals that did the trick. It was agriculture. Faster and more sustainable...

Rebooting Subsistence Agriculture in Rural Areas
Oct 18 2017   Achieving and fulfilling the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) overwhelmingly depends on making progress in rural areas , where most of the hungry and poor live. This was the main conclusion of the new report “ The State of Food and...