Sustainable Land Management (SLM) techniques can be expensive; not only financially expensive, but labor intensive, too. Most farmers around to the world face some sort of resource constraint and must prioritize well-known techniques to manage their land and ultimately, choose…
What happens when you bring small-scale farmers, soil scientists, land rights and gender equality activists, academics, policy-makers and environmental stewards together in one space? Well, as the Global Soil Week has proven time and again, a beautiful exchange of knowledge…
By Fanny Saß I made my trip to Kenya in the middle of November 2015, not too sure what to expect of Kenyan culture. Flying into Kisumu, a city located on the shores of Lake Victoria, you can’t help but…
Early March is the end of one of two dry seasons in western Kenya. Farmers get up early to beat the heat to prepare the hard and dry soils for the coming rains and the next planting season. This region…
AGORA partners decide to take the road less travelled in East Africa
The role of healthy soils in climate protection and food security is a major focus of the COP21 international climate summit in Paris. More than half of the 158 submitted Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) ascribe importance to the agricultural…
Land Degradation Endangers Livelihoods and Climate The land on our planet is rapidly degrading, causing a chain reaction of loss of livelihood, hunger, land-use change, higher greenhouse gas emissions, and human migration. A recent scientific study on global land degradation…
Statement of the Co-Chairs – Conference on Bioenergy and Development, Berlin 2015.
Soil and Land on 10 000 m² – the biggest outdoor info-graphic in Germany opens in Dresden’s oldest city square! Global Soil Week’s multimedia ONE HECTARE exhibition can be viewed in the German city of Dresden daily from 12-7pm…
View the short film for some take-aways from this year’s Global Soil Week.