CoSAI Commissioner, Dr Maurício Lopes, reflects on plans to revitalize Brazil's landscape which could serve as a model for countries facing similar challenges across the planet's tropical belt.
Satellite-based insurance is emerging as a new tool to help merginalised farmers get back on feet following damaging floods or droughts. The technology remotely monitors conditions on the ground, and provides information to verify claims.
The world’s wetlands could generate sustainable, agricultural livelihoods, which in turn contribute to public health through the ability to afford basic needs including nutritious food, medical care and education, writes Program Director Izabella Koziell
12 useful indicators spanning governance, equity, food, and the circular economy, support the city to develop inclusive and resilient sustainable food systems.
Practical, multi-pronged interventions helped struggling farmers in Jhansi district to diversify and intensify crop production through agroforestry, and now it's being scaled-up to seven districts.
Public, private and academic actors, including CCAFS and WLE, comes together to offer a suite of solutions, that will gear smallholders to prepare for a new climate era.
IFPRI joined CNBC Africa to discuss the linking of electrification with agriculture - as an opportunity for development and saving money - also making reference to ILSSI Ethiopia irrigating horticultural products as one of the interventions they looked into.
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.
Over a 1000 scientists called to action the need to adopt sustainable groundwater practices. This story by Truthout amplifies the message: groundwater is an “urgent and long-term concern” globally that is as critical as - and intricately connected to - the climate crisis.
IWMI study in Jordan finds that managing groundwater in the MENA region needs to extend beyond adopt water-saving technologies to address farmers' irrigation-related behaviors, practices and beliefs about groundwater.
