Restoring and Maintaining Thriving Farmland Through Soil Health

Restoring and Maintaining Thriving Farmland through Soil Health

A Legacy of Loss: The Scars of Unsustainable Practices Imagine vast stretches of parched earth, choked by dust and devoid of life. This wasn’t a scene from a dystopian novel […]

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Benefits of Conservation Tillage

What is conservation tillage? Currently, there is no universally accepted definition of conservation tillage, but one of the most widely accepted definitions is proposed by the Conservation Technology Information Center, […]

Improved water management practices empower women in the drylands of India

Water reverses climate change effects and shapes women’s lives in Bundelkhand, India A case study in Bundelkhand, India (recording the results at the end of 2023) The increased temperatures and […]

What is Deficit Irrigation

What is Deficit Irrigation?

Deficit irrigation is an agricultural strategy of limited water use, applying it in vulnerable growth stages. Many reasons lead to this strategy by farmers. Climate change has affected many areas […]

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Fertigation: Definition, Advantages and Challenges

Fertigation is a farming technique in which fertilizer is dissolved and dispensed with irrigation water through a drip or sprinkler irrigation system. Drip irrigation is the best method for fertigation—a […]

How to apply conservation tillage to protect soil fertility

How to apply conservation tillage to protect soil fertility

Reinventing the Arts of Tilling: A Modern to Traditional Perspective Again The soil is the most important of all resources of the agri-food sector, and it has its own life […]

How drip irrigation can support global food security

How drip irrigation can support global food security

The Risk of Food Supply-Demand Imbalance  The world’s progress in reducing hunger and malnutrition since the 1990s is one of the signature achievements of the modern era. However, this progress […]

Flood irrigation systems and Water Use Efficiency

Despite the importance of Water Use Efficiency (WUE) in crop production and resilience, few African farmers, subsistence or commercial, think much about it. Their main concern, especially in cases where […]

Real-life examples of irrigation practices revolutionizing agriculture in dry areas

Real-life examples of irrigation practices revolutionizing agriculture in dry areas

Flood irrigation in Ethiopia, a success story to be emulated or an environmental disaster to be avoided by the rest of Africa? For many years, Ethiopia’s Awash River flood basin […]

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The Role of Microbes in Climate-Resilient Agriculture

Climate Change and Agriculture Climate change is one of the significant challenges that the agricultural sector is facing, with rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and an increase in extreme weather […]