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Tillage is one of the agricultural management practices that significantly impacts agroecosystems, crop production, and the environment. Conventional tillage (CT) practices alter the soil environment and induce organic...

As the world's population increases, the pressing need for sustainable food production within the next 30 years poses a formidable challenge. Plant growth depends on nutrient availability...

For decades, global coffee consumption has grown, as tastes and offerings for consumers have increased around the world, and global demand for coffee will continue to grow in the years...

Highlights: This document summarizes the conclusions of 4 High Level Panel sessions that have taken place during the 5 th AU&EU Agricultural Ministerial Conference on...

Healthy ecosystems are the very foundation for people’s wellbeing and livelihoods in the Sahel. WFP's integrated resilience programme generates climate solutions at scale bringing degraded land...

Regenerative agriculture is gaining momentum worldwide among practitioners, scientists and policy makers, and it is often associated with agroecology. Indeed, regenerative agriculture has plenty in common...

Working under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, scientists examined the effects of drought on chemical processes inside the roots of three tropical rainforest...

Interview with the founder and CEO of a start-up that equips farmers with the tools to battle soil degradation and enhances their livelihoods.

Integrated farming systems (IFS) entail a holistic approach to farming aimed at meeting the multiple demands (impart farm resilience, farmer livelihoods, food security, ecosystem...

This book provides a synthesis of current agricultural research in Africa with the aim of presenting evidence based information that can be directly applied into improving the African smallholder farmers’...