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The first conference of its kind in half a century brought together hundreds of anti-hunger advocates, nutritionists, researchers, farmers, and policymakers to hammer out a set of shared goals. Here’s what people were saying on the ground. “I experienced firsthand the impacts of poverty, hunger, and homelessness on my mind, my body, and my soul,” Jimmieka Mills, the co-founder of Equitable…

The employment scheme will work in tandem with the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana to help take up treatment of about 30% more land than feasible with the current scheme size With limited funds to deal with the gargantuan task of restoring degraded land and reversing desertification in the country, the government is now planning to bring convergence between the Mahatma Gandhi…

Original language : French Aux côtés de l’UNCCD et du CARI, l’Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel coorganise la session 2022 du sommet Désertif’Actions. Les débats y portent sur des solutions possibles, tirant profit de l’agroécologie et émanant de recommandations recueillies à l’échelle globale auprès d’acteurs de la société civile. La COP 15 avait abouti à des décisions, en faveur de la…

The Coordination Unit of the North Western Sahara Aquifer System Consultation Mechanism (NWSAS-CM), organized, on September 21-22, in partnership with the GMES&Africa project - OSS-North Africa Consortium, the second online training workshop on Earth Observation for water management and the use of the MISBAR platform as a monitoring tool for irrigated areas. This workshop targeted…

Bulawayo, Oct 7 2022 (IPS) - Meat, milk, and eggs are bad for you, and livestock is bad for the environment. Growing negative narratives about cattle’s contribution to climate change are shrinking the growth of the strategic livestock sector on which the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people in the world depend. In Africa, livestock farming is life, providing food,…

In the Three Rivers gazetted forest of northern Benin, the start of the agricultural season is a frequent hotspot of conflict between local communities and forest officials. It is at this moment when demands are made for forest fees giving permission for residents to cultivate fields or graze their livestock. Yet this is exactly when farmers experience a financial squeeze in…