Sioma Farmers in ‘taste’ of Bigger Yields
Oct 10 2017   A FIELD with rows of winter maize interspaced by huge sumptuous looking cabbages is a site for sore eyes in the undulating series of fossil sands that make up most of Western Province’s landscape. The field belongs to Sipalo Mubita, who has been...

Lesotho to Direct Smallholders Towards Climate Smart Agriculture
Oct 05 2017   World Bank Approves $10 Million For Smallholder Agriculture Development WASHINGTON, September 29, 2017 – Today, the World Bank approved a $10 million additional financing from the International Development Association (IDA)* to Lesotho’s...

World Congress on Conservation Agriculture 7 WCCA7
Oct 02 2017   Nowadays, human being ́s demand for the global agriculture is to increase quantity and quality of food production, taking care of environment, using less fossil fuel and purchased inputs, promoting biodiversity, efficiency, resilience, climate...

CA Training Materials
Conservation Agriculture Facilitator’s Guidebook Resource Centre CA Core Curriculum Facilitators Guidebook Conservation Agriculture Posters Introduction Conservation Agriculture (CA) has spread in the past 40 years to cover 105 million hectares...

Malawian Farmers Adapt in the Face of Climate Change
Sep 01 2017   Malawian Farmers Adapt in the Face of Climate Change by Deogracias Benjamin Kalima August 31, 2017 Government is encouraging climate smart practices to increase yields and improve resilience Kenson Mulapula is an exceptional farmer. While most of...

Africa should harmonise agro-policies
Aug 30 2017   THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) says African countries need to develop harmonised regional agricultural policies that promote investment in key resilient infrastructure to boost regional trade in agro-products. The...

African smallholders can double their yields with half the water
Aug 30 2017   Only 4 to 7 percent of arable land is irrigated in Sub-Saharan Africa Better access to irrigation for farmers is key for climate change adaptation. Until recently, irrigation had never taken off in Africa for multiple reasons from poor maintenance...

Scaling up conservation agriculture in Zambia
Jul 14 2017   67 per cent of the Zambian population depends on agriculture but agricultural productivity does not keep up with the annual population growth rate of 3%.Moreover, policies have favoured maize at the expense of crop diversification. Conservation...

Irrigation, conservation agriculture and crop yield response in selected districts in Zimbabwe
Jul 11 2017   Zimbabwe's low-potential zones can be identified with a soaring prevalence of scarcity, shortage, deficiency and lack; depressed rural proceeds, earnings and revenues; low farm yields; and food unavailability (Nyagumbo et al., 2009). These factors...

Conservation Agriculture in Tanzania
Jul 10 2017   In Tanzania, conservation agriculture has been in practice for many years ago albeit in some areas it is still in adoption stage (Kimaro et al. 2015). Agronomic practices such as mulching, crop rotation, terraces, no-tillage and agroforestry to...