Dr Cary Fowler talks to FarmBizAfrica: Saving African soils may be only path to a future
By Jenny Luesby Could the soil of Africa be developing an unstoppable malaise that will transform our continent from an innocent victim of climate change
By Jenny Luesby Could the soil of Africa be developing an unstoppable malaise that will transform our continent from an innocent victim of climate change
Weather researchers are warning Kenya faces one of the driest short rains of the last century, in 2024, with rainfall 50 to 60 percent lower
Kenya’s worst floods in thirty years have killed thousands of livestock, destroyed acres of cropland leaving the country at risk of imminent food shortage and
The Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) has begun growing Cultivated Enset. Commonly called the ‘false banana’, the ‘tree against hunger’ can be
According to a report on the pace of soil degradation in Africa, the pace of soil degradation on the continent is a major threat to
Long-term weather forecasting tools are helping tomato farmers rake in its promised millions and avoid the perennial losses experienced by other farmers. With climate change
An investigation on the impact of climate change on Kenyan coffee farmers warned that 93 per cent of growers had experienced the effects of climate
Climate change is decreasing available soil moisture which has major impacts on sub-Sahara Africa’s food production. 10 per cent of currently arable land that previously
While most Kenyan farmers grow coffee in open sunny fields, others have embraced shade-grown coffee. This is a form of coffee production that grows the
Biochar increases the fertility and water retention of soils for thousands of years, delivering immediate five-fold increases in yields and removing the need for fertiliser.
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