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Why Is Soil Health Important?
Soils with high quality are a reservoir of water and nutrients for optimum plant growth and larger yields. Poor quality soils do not support optimum plant growth and are especially vulnerable to weather variations throughout the growing season. Improving our soil health improves the efficiency of water and nutrient use resulting in enhanced profitability. It […] Continue Reading
Land degradation neutrality as a tangible vision for our landscapes
Land is the foundation of life and humanity cannot survive without it. However, we chose to take it for granted, mismanaging fertile soils and millions of trees. Is there any hope to wake up to a land degradation free world? Click here to learn more Continue Reading
Eastern and Southern African countries establish initiative to scale-up fertilizer tree technologies as a component of fertilizer subsidy programs
The Member States of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa have approved a resolution to set up a new initiative to enable their countries to build their capacity to link the upscaling of fertilizer tree technologies with their fertilizer subsidy programs. The initiative will enable COMESA Member States to regenerate their soils and […] Continue Reading
Cracking the Nut ’16: Regenerating rural and agricultural development
Cracking the Nut is coming back to DC! After three years abroad, the 2016 Cracking the Nut conference will take place in Washington, DC on March 1-2, 2016. Connexus is working with the Inter-American Development Bank, USAID and Catholic Relief Services to organize a two-day learning event, which will highlight changes being made to “regenerate” rural and […] Continue Reading
Creating an Evergreen food-energy system for rural electrification
‘All of the planet’s energy originally derives from solar radiation. Trees are one of the most effective ways of harnessing the sun and turning it into usable energy, and trees can do this in a truly renewable way.’ Philip Dobie and Navin Sharma. World Agroforestry Centre Electrical Power with Food Security Benefits Six hundred million […] Continue Reading
Realizing the vision of forests – how Evergreen Agriculture can contribute
The importance of forests in supporting the achievement of the new Sustainable Development Goals was a key outcome of the recent XIV World Forestry Congress held in South Africa, but how does EverGreen Agriculture fit into this vision? Key messages emerging from the Congress highlight the universally agreed upon services forests provide. For the rural […] Continue Reading