This article by Jes Weigelt first appeared in GAIA 3/2015.
Sustainable Development Goals Must Recognise the Importance of Soils
Guest Blog by Zimbabweland: Policy options for African soils: learning lessons for future action
Everyone is agreed that one of the central components of achieving an ‘African Green Revolution’ is to tackle the widespread soil fertility constraints in African agriculture. To this end, AGRA – the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa –…
Guest Blog by CIAT: Land management matters: Malawian communities create maps to find answers
In Malawi, worry creases farmers’ faces as they explain that their maize crop may fail this year. Planting was done on time, but in January intense rainfall and flooding swept away much of the fields, soil and seeds alike. Our…
Combating Poverty through Better Use of Natural Resources: IASS, IFAD and Partners Publish New Study
Natural resources are coming under increasing pressure in the face of climate change and growing global demand for raw materials.
Some Cautionary Tales for the International Year of Soils
First in series of guest Blogs from Ian Scoones You may not know, but 2015 is the International Year of Soils. Soils are of course vitally important for agriculture and livelihoods, but they often go unsung and are routinely uncared…
Tackling the Social and Economic Drivers of Land Degradation: Workshop in Malawi
Almost two thirds (65 per cent) of Africa´s cropland is affected by severe land degradation. Sustainable land management (SLM) is seen as the best way to combat and even reverse land degradation. In Malawi, where the majority of the population…
Interactive Game: African Highland Farmer
weirdbeard.nl/demo/highlandfarmer
Interactive Game: African Farmer
africanfarmergame.org