What is Sustainable Farming? Sustainable Agriculture is a philosophy and a set of practices that all together satisfy three different conditions: Respecting Environment and Protecting Natural Resources Securing a Fair […]
What is Regenerative Farming? Regenerative Agriculture is a philosophy (followed by a set of agricultural practices) that aims to reverse the depletion of natural resources that Industrial Agriculture caused. Regenerative […]
What is Subsistence Agriculture? Subsistence Agriculture is a form of Agriculture that was practiced for thousands of years by people all around the world but now is practiced in some […]
Why are pollinators important to agriculture? Plants depend on pollination. Nearly ninety percent of wild flowering plants need pollinators like bees to transfer pollen for successful sexual reproduction. In turn, […]
How does climate change affect agriculture? Agriculture is heavily affected by climate change. Extreme weather conditions threaten the crops and hence the financial survival of millions of smallholders worldwide, who […]
What is intercropping and why is it better than monoculture? Intercropping is an agricultural method that involves growing two different crops simultaneously at a very close distance to benefit from […]
What is crop rotation and why it is good? Crop rotation means that two or more different crops are grown one after the other. In a crop rotation scheme, a […]
How to prevent soil erosion? To prevent soil erosion, you must apply cover crops all year round in your field. This means that the soil will never remain bare again […]
What is soil conservation and why it is important? Soil conservation is a philosophy and a set of practices that all together aim at minimizing and reversing the degradation of […]
What is no-tillage farming? No-till or no-tillage farming is a cultivation system that avoids all practices promoting the soil’s physical degradation. Farmers had been practicing No-tillage for thousands of years, […]
