Organic farming can drive transition to sustainable food systems

Organic farming can play an important role in triggering a shift towards more sustainable food systems, according to an article published in the scientific journal “Nature Sustainability”. A team of international experts argues that there is broad consensus that we urgently need to change the way we produce and consume food. Only then will we be able to address global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss and water scarcity and make progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Study: Agroecology can help to mitigate climate change

Agroecology, including organic farming, can make an enormous contribution towards keeping global warming below 2°C, according to a new report from the French think tank IDDRI.

Sustainable agriculture needed to stop biodiversity loss, UN report

Nature is declining globally at unprecedented rates due to human activities, a major new UN report has warned. Up to one million plant and animal species are currently facing extinction – and the rate of extinctions is accelerating, according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

Images speak @ the Official Presentation and Launch of the Nigeria Country Programming Framework (CPF) 2018-2022

 Images speak @ the Official Presentation and Launch of the Nigeria Country Programming Framework (CPF) 2018-2022.. see more images below..

Hunger Stalks South

Hunger Stalks South

HUNGER is looming high in most parts of Southern Province as a result of the drought which has hit the region, devastating maize and graving fields.

Coffee Industry Grapples With Low Farm Incomes

A coffee farmer in Rukara, Kayonza District

Coffee farmers are not as happy as other players along the value chain because they are getting a modest share of revenues, experts in the industry have agreed.

Increasing Number of People Face Severe Food Shortages in South Sudan

Increasing Number of People Face Severe Food Shortages in South Sudan

Nearly 7 million people in South Sudan could face acute food insecurity at the height of this lean season (May-July), three United Nations agencies warned today, urging for scaled-up humanitarian assistance and better access to humanitarian relief.

Coffee Farmers Seek Govt Support

Nyinawumuntu’s coffee plantation in Kayonza

The income that coffee farmers earn from the produce is set to reduce after the farmgate price for a kilogramme of coffee cherries dropped from Rwf267 in 2018 to Rwf190 this season.

Recycled gypsum as an agricultural product

Recycled gypsum as an agricultural product

Warren Dick has worked with gypsum for more than two decades. You'd think he'd be an expert on drywall and plastering because both are made from gypsum. But the use of gypsum that Dick studies might be unfamiliar to you: on farmland.

Leaves are nature's most sophisticated environment sensors

Leaves are nature's most sophisticated environment sensors

New research confirms that leaves are nature's most sophisticated environment sensors. We can therefore use leaves to tell us about the management of the land they are growing in.