17th June is the World Day against desertification. A good time to show how Ethiopian highland farmers have built miles of stonewalls and changed their way of farming to re-green barren lands.
Gandhinagar: An ordinary farmer Ramanbhai Parmar based in Thana village of Anand District has become the torchbearer for other agriculturists. Parmar who opted for solar power-based irrigation plant in his farm has earned Rs7,500 extra by selling the surplus power he generates apart which is over and above the income he earns from his farm produce.
Raman Parmar was handed over a cheque of Rs 7500 for the 1500 units of surplus power that was produced in his farm and was fed to the electricity grid during the last four months.
Video of CPWF project that aimed to help provincial authorities and communities affected by the Lower Sesan 2 Hydropower Dam in northeast Cambodia to actively engage in the resettlement planning process.
Throughout 2014, Walter Vergara, a climate specialist and senior fellow at the World Resources Institute, has worked tirelessly and with extraordinary persistence to build support for a new collaborative initiative that aims to restore 20 million hectares to productivity and ecosystem health by 2020.
In partnership with the Satoyama Initiative, Bioversity International launched a new toolkit that can help communities address threats to the land- and seascapes they depend on.
Degraded soils are a reality that we face today. In her post, Smith talks about the thriving construction industry in the hills of Kenya’s Upper Tana watershed and its impact on the environment.
Food production globally is taking on an increasingly urban flavor, according to a new study that finds 456 million hectares is under cultivation in and around the world’s cities, challenging the rural orientation of most agriculture research and development work.
Too often, groundwater supplies are over-exploited, which can not only reduce food production but also negatively impact other ecosystem services such as the quantity and quality of drinking water.
