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Breaking Ground: Xuecai Zhang prepares future generation of crop breeders
Originally published on the CIMMYT website. Xuecai Zhang wants to merge traditional maize breeding methods with new software and other tools to help improve farmers’ yields faster […] Continue Reading
Outside the box
Originally published on the CARE website. For 25 years, CARE Village Savings and Loan Associations have powered change through innovative economics. […] Continue Reading
Scaling up FMNR, CAWT and planted agroforestry
Challenges and Opportunities 1. FMNR – Widespread with diverse range of trees with multiple products and uses 2. Faidherbia – highly valued but distribution is not uniform and densities are low: Natural regeneration in natural range Plant air pruned seedlings outside its range Direct sow with pre treated seed 3. Other Planted Systems: Tephrosia, P peas, Gliricidia etc […] Continue Reading
ICRAF and One Acre Fund chart way forward on trees
Originally published on the World Agroforestry Centre website. Rubengera, Rwanda — Farmer Cecile Mukabutera , 32, looks approvingly at her small tree, one of ten she received from One Acre Fund. Its branches will eventually give her up to 30 poles per year. These 2-3 meter poles are essential for the cultivation of climbing […] Continue Reading
Tony Rinaudo: “FMNR can droughtproof the land against El Niño”
Originally published on the FMNR Hub website. Tony Rinaudo, Natural Resources Advisor at World Vision Australia, explains in an audio interview with Lou Del Bello from SciDev.Net how the restoration technique known as Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) can help communities prepare for climate stresses. Click here to listen to how FMNR has enabled farmers in Ethiopia cope with […] Continue Reading
Humbo: a bare mountain becomes a dense forest
Originally published on the FMNR Hub website. In 2008, decades of continuous clearing of trees for charcoal and firewood had left thousands of hectares of hills barren, exposing the residents to severe drought and starvation. To address this degradation, and the negative effects it was having on the community, the Humbo FMNR project began. World Vision’s intervention […] Continue Reading