Landscape and natural resource management
Desertification in the Sahel - an untruthful story?
In February 2013 The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition opened an online forum and posed the question “Forest and trees provide benefits for food security and nutrition – what is your...
Today, on the International Day of Forests, Focali and SIANI publish the brief “Forests and trees – essential for food security on a landscape level”.
Why Sustainable Agricultural Practices?
The Urban Agriculture Summit 2013
Why Sustainable Agricultural Practices?
Forests, trees on farms and agroforestry systems contribute to food security, nutrition and livelihoods in several ways, including as a direct source of food, fuel, employment and cash income.
In 1992, China started a comprehensive research program into conservation agriculture (CA) and by 2009, China had adopted a national plan for CA and thereby seriously and deliberately taking steps in progressing conservation agriculture. By 2012 China was applying CA on more than 6 million hectares (approximately 5% of cultivated land in China) according to Li
In 1992, China started a comprehensive research program into conservation agriculture (CA) and by 2009, China had adopted a national plan for CA and thereby seriously and deliberately taking steps in progressing conservation agriculture. By 2012 China was applying CA on more than 6 million hectares (approximately 5% of cultivated land in China) according to Li Hongw