Zero Tillage, Crop Residue Retention Practices Turn African Farms Into Breadbaskets
-AFRICA BUSINESS COMMUNITIES
Behind the SIMLESA project, is the story of thousands of farmers who have transformed their lands and increased earnings..
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-AFRICA BUSINESS COMMUNITIES
Behind the SIMLESA project, is the story of thousands of farmers who have transformed their lands and increased earnings..
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-ALL AFRICA
In 2017, climate and man-made disasters sent shockwaves across the world. For the first time in a decade, world hunger has also risen once more to affect an estimated 815 million people. Regions facing conflict in combination with the impact of droughts and floods fared the worst in parts of Africa and Asia…
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-CIMMYT.ORG
By mid-2017, SIMLESA had helped over 235,000 farming households adopt more sustainable practices to cope with the effects of climate change and declining soil fertility. “The work done by SIMLESA has yielded increasing farm-level food security…
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-CIMMYT.ORG A new video highlights the outcomes and achievements of the SIMLESA project and it features interviews with farmers and scientists…
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-ACIAR FOOD SECURITY AND POVERTY REDUCTION MAGAZINES
Climate variability significantly affects cropping productivity around the world, but perhaps nowhere more so than in eastern and southern African countries…