conservation agriculture
Policy outreach to mainstream SIMLESA learning: Q&A with Paswel Marenya
Nutrition, health and food security
After eight years of project learning, reflections on what conservation agriculture means for African smallholder farmers, the dialogue between scientists and policy makers, and next steps.
Policy forum in Mozambique recommends scaling sustainable agriculture practices
Capacity development
Unsustainable farming practices like monocropping are impacting soil health and reducing the productivity of farms.
The itsy bitsy spider can make a big impact in agriculture
Environmental health and biodiversity
A new study explores how conservation agriculture in southern Africa supports spider populations and diversity, which could help mitigate pest damage.
With multi-sector support for climate-sensitive practices, African farmers can boost food security and resilience
Nutrition, health and food security
Conservation agriculture has potential to conserve soils, improve yields and limit environmental impacts.
What is green manure? And how is it helping maize farmers?
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Ten farmers in a hot and dry area of Zimbabwe trial intercropping legumes and green manure cover crops alongside their maize, to assess their impact on soil fertility.
African youth find entrepreneurial opportunity in agricultural mechanization
Capacity development
An increasing number of youth across eastern and southern Africa are creating a stable living as entrepreneurs in agricultural mechanization service provision.
Farmer in Malawi defines true project success
Innovations
Development initiatives are only truly successful when participants graduate, adopt and leave.
New findings on gender gap in conservation agriculture
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Interview with Clare Stirling, co-author of a new paper, reveals almost no conservation agriculture studies consider gender and gender relations as a factor that may explain low adoption rates.