Comments on: Kenyan farmers adopt simple techniques to increase their yield http://www.cgiar.org/consortium-news/kenyan-farmers-adapt-new-techniques-increase-yield/ A Global Agricultural Research Partnership Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:40:35 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Women in agriculture? Yes, we can! (CGIAR) – Improved Management of Agricultural Water in East and Southern Africa http://www.cgiar.org/consortium-news/kenyan-farmers-adapt-new-techniques-increase-yield/#comment-183 Women in agriculture? Yes, we can! (CGIAR) – Improved Management of Agricultural Water in East and Southern Africa Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:57:37 +0000 http://consortium.cgiar.org/?p=557#comment-183 [...] Margaret Silas, a Kenyan farmer uses simple techniques to increase her yield [...] [...] Margaret Silas, a Kenyan farmer uses simple techniques to increase her yield [...]

]]> By: Peter Casier http://www.cgiar.org/consortium-news/kenyan-farmers-adapt-new-techniques-increase-yield/#comment-182 Peter Casier Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:30:47 +0000 http://consortium.cgiar.org/?p=557#comment-182 Sandra, I allow a "liberal" translation into English for the other readers (given my very imperfect Portuguese, but with help from you via Twitter): Sandra says: <blockquote>Preserving the vegetation, implementing drought resistant (grain) crops (vegetation) is crucial.But the preservation of the vegetation itself also helps to mitigate the effects of drought, and making people conscious of these crops, will allow the African population stand "on their own legs" and become independent of other countries</blockquote> .. And we could not agree more, Sandra! -- This is one aspect. But we could also widen it: training on those crops, adapted fertilizers and cropping techniques, creating a market for these crops, irrigation, forestation (to protect the fields)... All goes together.. Peter (Moderator) Sandra, I allow a “liberal” translation into English for the other readers (given my very imperfect Portuguese, but with help from you via Twitter):

Sandra says:

Preserving the vegetation, implementing drought resistant (grain) crops (vegetation) is crucial.But the preservation of the vegetation itself also helps to mitigate the effects of drought, and making people conscious of these crops, will allow the African population stand “on their own legs” and become independent of other countries

.. And we could not agree more, Sandra! — This is one aspect. But we could also widen it: training on those crops, adapted fertilizers and cropping techniques, creating a market for these crops, irrigation, forestation (to protect the fields)… All goes together..

Peter
(Moderator)

]]> By: SANDRA C. S. MENDES http://www.cgiar.org/consortium-news/kenyan-farmers-adapt-new-techniques-increase-yield/#comment-181 SANDRA C. S. MENDES Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:00:43 +0000 http://consortium.cgiar.org/?p=557#comment-181 Acho louvavel e necessario uma concientizaçao sobre a importancia de se preservar as vegetaçoes bem como espalhar o conhecimento sobre vegetaçoes resistentes a seca, e incetivar o cultivo conciente de tais,para que algum dia a populaçao africana se sustente com as proprias "pernas" e tenha independencia dos outros paises. Acho louvavel e necessario uma concientizaçao sobre a importancia de se preservar as vegetaçoes bem como espalhar o conhecimento sobre vegetaçoes resistentes a seca, e incetivar o cultivo conciente de tais,para que algum dia a populaçao africana se sustente com as proprias “pernas” e tenha independencia dos outros paises.

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