resilience

Features 4 Jun 2020

Conservation agriculture feeds people and protects the environment

Climate adaptation and mitigation

Initiative in Zimbabwe pursues holistic and multi-faceted approach to support climate resilience and increase yields.

News 18 Sep 2019

Smallholder farmers’ multi-front strategy combats rapidly evolving wheat rust in Ethiopia

Nutrition, health and food security

Researchers found farmers who increased both the area growing resistant varieties and the number of wheat varieties grown per season saw the biggest yield increases.

Features 9 Jul 2019

Ethiopian farmers weatherproof their livelihoods

Climate adaptation and mitigation

Farmers boost their climate resilience and make money as they phase out a 25-year-old maize variety and replace it with drought-tolerant BH661 seeds.

Features 14 Sep 2018

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.