Biochar is one of the oldest products in the world, and has been the object of renewed interest in recent years.
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New review offers first recommendations on accurately assessing the carbon footprint of coffee farming
A new scientific review published in Sustainable Production and Consumption explores how best to standardize measurement of the environmental impact of coffee – a commodity increasingly threatened by climate...
Glyphosate is the world's most widely used herbicide.
The exceptional flavour of Madagascan wild pepper is such that global demand has rocketed since 2010. Voatsiperifery pepper grows on vines very high up in the canopy of natural forests.
How can we manage soil fertility to boost food sovereignty in Africa? This was the question asked by CIRAD and AFD at the traditional conference organized at ther latest...
For the first time, farmer Nandkumar Koparde was unable to harvest even a kilogram of soybean from his two-acre field. “Even in the worst of droughts, we managed at least...
"Soils and land, life in our hands" is the topic for this year's stand by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) group and the French Agricultural Research Centre for International development...
The degree of contamination of agricultural soils is still largely unknown, but is increasingly cause for concern.
Healthy soils work well.
Soils are not just a support: it has to be in good health for agricultural activities to be established and prosper. In Ivory Coast, the Ministry of Agriculture has...