In recent years, the mitigation of climate change and the improvement of soil fertility by sequestering carbon in the soil has become a hot research topic. The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), supported by WLE, have had great success in developing projects to provide individual farmers and extension officers with soil information of relevance for their management decisions, meeting an increasing need for spatial data on soil properties at multiple scales.
WLE researchers based at ICRAF have authored a chapter in the recently launched GII 2018 report, highlighting the making of fuel briquettes from organic residue as an important innovation for Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Ghanaian Government is boosting measures to support resource recovery and reuse and announced the "zero landfill policy" this month at the JVL Fortifer Compost Plant.
By Claudia Sadoff for the Telegraph. Malaria research is currently focused on new methods of genetic mosquito manipulation but the way large dams are currently built and designed creates massive mosquito breeding grounds, adding to the disease burden. Changing dam design is a significant and neglected area of opportunity.
The Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) aims to fill a major gap in soil spatial information in Africa. To this end new soil data were collected at over 9,000 locations from 60 sentinel sites in Africa and combined with collated and harmonized soil legacy data from over 18,000 locations in Africa.
The JVL Fortifer Compost Plant was opened in Ghana on May 11, 2017 to help the city of Accra recycle its waste while producing a safe nutrient-rich fertilizer for food production.
WISE-UP - 'Water Infrastructure Solutions from Ecosystem Services Underpinning Climate Resilient Policies and Programmes' - aims to demonstrate natural infrastructure as a 'nature-based solution' for climate change adaptation and sustainable development in the Volta and Tana Basins. The WISE-UP project is implemented by IUCN with partners IWMI, BC3, ODI, ACCESS in Kenya, University of Manchester, and CSIR in Ghana, with the support of the Volta Basin Authority. It is funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB).
International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a non-profit scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries has encouraged women in the Upper East region of Ghana to go into agriculture by providing them with small water reservoirs.
The Upper East Regional Women in Agriculture Development Officer, Mary Kogana Paula has called on traditional rulers, family heads and society to give women the opportunity to have access to land for agricultural purposes in Ghana.
Marloes Mul of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) published a blog on the IUCN Water Knowledge Platform on the work being done under the WISE-UP to climate project. Specifically, the piece looks at natural infrastructure as an important element of balanced water resource management planning in the Volta Basin.
