Rubengera, Rwanda -- Farmer Cecile Mukabutera , 32, looks approvingly at her small tree, one of ten she received from One Acre Fund. Its branches will eventually give her up to 30 poles per year. These 2-3 meter poles are essential for the…
Originally published on the website of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change and Food Security (CCAFS)
The Land Restoration Community of Practice consisting of Lead Farmers from Machakos, Makueni and Kitui counties of Kenya convened in January 2017 to reflect on current on-farm restoration activities as well as participate in a second round of…
From 9-14 January 2017, Steve Twomlow, Regional Climate and Environmental Specialist with the International Fund for Agriculutral Development (IFAD) travelled through Kenya and Tanzania to review progress on four CGIAR projects in East Africa. These…
On 17 January 2017 at the Kempinski Hotel in Nairobi Kenya, the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Nature Conservancy to support the Upper Tana-Nairobi Water Fund.The fund which is also supported by…
The advent of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) poses the danger that developing countries become distracted by development targets and burdened with monitoring requirements that do not serve to actually improve development performance.…
Group photo. The African Soil Seminar brought together government, UN and NGO officials, researchers, agricultural technology providers and human rights advocates. Photo by IISD