AGORA partners decide to take the road less travelled in East Africa
AGORA: Taking the less traveled road
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…
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…
Can a small participatory research project make a difference?
An Usambara Landscape Approach by Judith Rosendahl . September 2014. I found myself in the West Usambara Mountains in North-Eastern Tanzania, a region characterized by high population density, farming on steep mountain slopes, intensive vegetable production in the valley floors,…