Community participation: Greening the Aba Gerima watershed in Ethiopia
The Aba Gerima watershed covers the upper portion of Lake Tana sub-basin in north-western Ethiopia. Agriculture is its mainstay, with cereal cultivation Read more...
Far-reaching impact of technology and innovation: Saving time, boosting income and reducing household conflict in Zimbabwe and beyond
Simple agricultural innovations, such as soil probes to detect water and salinity levels at different depths, have not only helped smallholder farmers Read more...
Rejuvenation in Bundelkhand: How an upland watershed got its groundwater back
The world of water management is replete with stories about traditional systems that break down, such as the one we reported in Read more...
Simple interventions embedded in a wider learning environment lead to big gains and systemic changes
Impressive project findings from the use of the two synergistic interventions – Smart Water Management tools and Agricultural Innovation Platforms – published Read more...
With technology and trust, we can move mountains
If you’re trying to win the trust of a community, you don’t start by building rat houses on their land. But that’s just what some residents living on Ethiopia’s Yewol mountain worried scientists were doing. They saw the slow construction of stone-pile terraces along their mountainside. And they were suspicious...
Reaffirming an old alliance with Ethiopia for better natural resource management
Collaboration with Ethiopian institutes on systems-based research programs – including joint projects in soil fertility management, watershed management, dryland irrigation systems, rangeland Read more...
Equipping researchers with tools for geospatial and remote sensing data analysis
A recent capacity-building exercise conducted in Nigeria trained a multidisciplinary team of researchers in the use of remote sensing in their respective Read more...
Opportunities for crop intensification in rice fallows
How farmers in Warangal district grew a second crop with residual moisture Cultivation of early-maturing chickpea in rice fallows which hold sufficient Read more...
Vulnerable to verdant: turning flood risk into farm resource
Increasing production in agriculture is often a very long and arduous process. Agronomists, soil scientists and hydrologists who implement land and water Read more...
New methods in implementing an irrigation scheme bring notable impact
Efficient water use, higher crop yields and improved farmer incomes Impacts of huge investments in irrigation schemes in Africa are often not Read more...