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Time to embrace evergreen agriculture?
Has the time come for abandoning the green revolution and embracing the idea of ‘evergreen agriculture’? Hans R. Herren, President of the Millennium Institute in Washington and President of the Biovision Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland, thinks so. Continue Reading
Pasture Cropping: A Regenerative Solution from Down Under
Since the late 1990s, Australian farmer Colin Seis has been successfully planting a cereal crop into perennial pasture on his sheep farm during the dormant period using no-till drilling, a method that uses a drill to sow seeds instead of the traditional plow. He calls it pasture cropping and he gains two crops this way from one parcel of land—a cereal crop for food or forage and wool or lamb meat from his pastures—which means its potential for feeding the world in a sustainable manner is significant. Continue Reading
Grow vegetables under trees
Written by Daisy Ouya on October 3, 2012 Continue Reading
Bit by bit, East African smallholder farmers adapting to climate change
Bit by bit, East African smallholder farmers adapting to climate changeSubmitted by Vanessa on 7th September 2012 Continue Reading
Kenya: Resource-saving Agriculture
The combination of conservation agriculture and agroforestry techniques is boosting farm productivity in Kenya. Continue Reading
“Living with the Trees of Life:” Innovative Solutions to Solve the Food Crisis
Dr. Continue Reading