New opportunities for entrepreneurs in the circular economy are coming out of turning waste into wealth. A compendium of business models is being adopted by curricula in 19 universities in Asia, Europe and Africa.
Community water management investments in Tajikistan are now better targeted to women, with an aim to increase food production and stabilize farming systems.
New soil strategies, water technology, policy initiatives and advances on restoring degraded landscapes are bringing cross-sectoral and cross-scale results in Ethiopia's agricultural sector.
Recovering and reusing waste evaluation demonstrates that outcome based approach backed by quality programme management is vital to derive a positive outcome from long-term research.
The report provides guidance in estimating soil organic carbon (SOC) and help identify appropriate deployment of sustainable land management (SLM) technologies, with a special focus on maintaining land degradation neutrality (LDN).
To prevent flooding and improve irrigation, a new practice utilizes systems of weirs -- small dams -- to distribute water to crops in the Ethiopian drylands.
The Ethiopian Ministry of Finance (MoF) has signed a tax reform bill that is slated to remove almost all duty tax on irrigation, mechanization and animal feed equipment and technologies. This decision was brought about, in part, based on recommendations made by IWMI and WLE.
Can the world produce 10 billion healthy diets while transitioning agriculture from a source of degradation to one of restoration? Experts give insight at the EAT Food Forum on how best to take on this question, as WLE and EAT prepare the launch of the global Commission on Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture.
Scientists and government officials are collaborating with communities to test out new approaches to reversing land degradation—methods that might have potential to change the status of the entire highlands region from vastly degraded to successfully restored.
IWMI received a commendation from the Government of Ghana for its contribution to incorporating organic fertilizers into the government's Fertilizer Subsidy Programme.
