Enhancing Sustainable Agriculture stories

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. 

Researchers hold a unique position in trying to address the challenges facing rural populations and natural resources in Africa. The situation is critical and exacerbated by climate change. 

Two hundred researchers, extentionists, development practitioners and policy makers have gathered in Dhaka, Bangladesh to share research results, plans and ideas for unlocking the agriculture and aquaculture potential of the Ganges River basin’s coastal zone.

WLE supports an approach to sustainable intensification whereby healthy, functioning ecosystems are seen as a prerequisite to agricultural development, food security and human well-being. Ecosystem services and resilience is a core theme of the program’s integrated approach to natural resource management.

A recent post by IFPRI says beneficial insects and behavioral games could boost rice production and improve farmer health in Cambodia.

Andrew Noble explains the fundamental elements that make up the WLE program and what an ecosystem based approach really means.

WLE and GRiSP held a two day workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh to kick start the Polder Community Water Management project, to much fanfare.

Identifying and removing barriers for women and youth to access irrigated land in the White Volta basin has the potential to give them a "head start."

Management programs of grazing lands in Ethiopia have improved both degraded agricultural lands and livestock grazing, but how can they be sustained?

One WLE research project is setting out to explore how water accounting could guide decisions on water reallocation in the Eastern Nile basin.

Scientists has launched a web-based program to improve water management investment decisions in areas of sub-Saharan Africa where crop failure is high.