The ‘Abiotic stress tolerant maize for Asia’ (ATMA) project aims to increase incomes and food security for the poor of South and southeast Asia, with the assistance of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The second phase…
For agricultural productivity to grow and be sustained, production methods cannot continue to use resources and erode natural capital at the current rate. This was discussed recently at conference in connection to the Rio +20 conference.
By introducing trees on the farm there is an increased potential of improved productivity, water management and reslience, also called ‘evergreen agriculture’.
Mbaye Yade, the regional coordinator of ReSAKSS-WA, participated in the ECOWAS/WAEMU high-level meeting on food and nutrition crisis in Lomé, Togo on June 4-5, 2012. The objective of the meeting was to follow-up with the committed measures against the…
