Excessive rains and the increased presence of late blight disease devastated Peru’s Cusco region in 2010, prompting the government to…
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Getting to grips with India’s groundwater
Colin Chartres, Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), talks about groundwater management Farmers everywhere have used underground…
Farmers and agro-climate tools – a match made in agricultural heaven!
Farmers should be aware of climate changes to adapt their agricultural practices: this sounds simple. Yet in developing countries, an…
Can drought-tolerant maize also survive… high rainfall?
For farmers like Mary Sikirwayi, maize is life. Although she also grows wheat, peanuts, and beans on her farm in…
Cassava Power Unleashed
In 2008, the world was rocked by a global food price crisis which hit sub-Saharan Africa particularly hard. “This is…