Seeds for Needs interventions led by WLE/CIAT not only distribute improved seed varieties to farmers, but they also provide support at different levels and across multiple areas of expertise by actively engaging farmers in the process.
The Jordanian government is rolling out community-based, mechanized, micro water harvesting packages, using a novel method developed by NARC, WLE and ICARDA to identify potentially suitable areas for rehabilitation of watersheds.
Faster, cheaper and more precise than conventional testing, soil spectroscopy analysis gives giving agricultural producers at all scales vital information on how to improve and protect their soils.
An evaluation finds real change in three specific areas: demonstrating landscape approaches in ways that encourage farmers, the government, donors and NGOs to embrace these strategies; innovating with geospatial data; and promoting and removing barriers to conservation technologies.
A huge benefit to smallholders, as it quickly and cost effectively measures and maps soil and plant properties, also matching soil problems with solutions.
In the struggle to produce more food, and on increasingly degraded lands, access to reliable and contextual information can help farmers make better informed decisions.
A rapid and low-cost soil spectral technique helped small-scale farmers in the Murang’a County learn about and care for their soil, increasing their maize yields.
The new soil library and service will help the world address the climate crisis through better understanding of soils for improving productivity and reversing land degradation.
ICRAF organised the initial stakeholder engagement workshop to co-design and develop an online Resource Hub to tackle land degradation in the semi-arid drylands of Makueni County, Kenya
