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Smallholder maize farmers in Malawi are adopting sustainable crop management practices that cut labor and help capture and hold rainfall, salvaging harvests when water is scarce.Click here to read more. Continue Reading

There is an urgent need to pilot changes in agricultural practices in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in order to improve agricultural production in the irrigated areas of these countries. Conservation agriculture can be an answer for the challenges in those countries, and no-till agriculture can also be considered as a best solution for irrigated agriculture.Click here to read more. Continue Reading

Peter Hobbs invites fellow Cornell researchers to join him in fostering a "brown revolution" that promotes conservation agriculture, which involves minimal soil disturbance and the use of cover crops and crop rotations to naturally control weeds, pests and diseases.Click here to read more. Continue Reading

IRD helped Swazi communities to mitigate drought in Shiselweni and Lubombo provinces through a project, funded by USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. The project increased food security by training farmers in conservation agriculture and livestock development and providing seeds for drought-resistant and soil-improving crops.Click here to read more. Continue Reading

In Africa, planting trees along with corn in soil that is low in nitrogen can substantially increase corn production without expensive fertilizers. In a decade, the number of small farmers using Fertilizer Tree Systems has ballooned from a few hundred to more than 250,000.Click here to read more. Continue Reading

Farming practices that incorporate natural resources conservation will provide sustainable solution to food insecurity in Africa in the face of climate change,declining soil fertility and shrinking size of arable land. Click here to read more. Continue Reading